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We finally got our rig!

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Tip&Tina

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Joined
Nov 15, 2019
Messages
109
Location
On the Road
RV Year
2021
RV Make
Newmar
RV Model
4081
RV Length
40
Chassis
Freightliner
TOW/TOAD
Jeep Wrangler
Fulltimer
Yes
This is overdue; we were set for factory pickup on May 10. It seemed like the longest time between us selling our home (January 27) and going to Nappanee to pick up our rig. We were renting at The Villages in Florida for the intervening months. (That will require a thread of it’s own) We are Full-Timers, so not having a rig sucked!

We left Lady Lake, Florida on May 6 to drive to Nappanaee and stopped in our old neighborhood outside Atlanta to visit our friends and neighbors. We got back on the road north on May 8 and stayed in Bowling Green, KY for the night. FTR, Bowling Green seems like a party town. (BTDT, I seem to have less tolerance for drunk young peopl...??)

We headed to Nappanee in the morning and arrived in early evening Sunday. We had to stay at the Amish Inn for the night since we didn’t have a rig to swap.

A quick note on the Amish Inn: their website says they have remodeled-the bathroom have been brought up to the 2020 type in our room. The bed, the TV, the rest of the room screams 1980. Zero light. One bedside light, incandescent bulb. No other light in the room. Really smelled like my grandmothers house in the 1970’s?

Picking up rig was interesting; we were at the Customer Service center at 6:30. We got emails that told us 6 am and another that said 7 am. We decided to make it 6:30.

We had our credentials and got our temps checked and were told to take a seat to wait for the tech to come get us. At 7:30 he showed up. All the other service customers were watching and waiting and didn’t why we were allowed into the service bays. Newmar needs to explain to the other customers what is going on. We got some look, after people understood we were doing Factory Pickup, they were much more friendly.

We got to go into the service area, which was, literally right outside of service center door. We were allowed in due to FPU. No other service customer we allowed in the service bays. They really wanted to get in and see what the techs were doing and what they were doing. I hope, when we go back for warranty work, they allow us in to see and understand what they are doing, etc.

We went over all the systems, how they work, etc. I’m really cutting down what they did...there were some things that needed to be fixed and some that needed to be tweaked. We were able to get those fixed.

We ended being there from Monday thru Saturday. We left, got to our next campground and immediately realized that we had to start a warranty list. ??‍♀️

I know this happens with a moving home and the “earthquake“ we all hear about.

Overall, I would recommend everyone going to Newmar to get service done. Their service people are awesome!
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Beautiful. Congrats!!
 
Congrats! Love the exterior color scheme; it is a lot like our MADP that we get many compliments on. Enjoy the new coach.

TJ
 
That’s gorgeous @Tip&Tina! Congratulations and here’s to many miles!
 
Congrats. Enjoy the journey.
 
Lucky people!
 
Very nice!! Congrats. Now the learning begins, enjoy it.
 
Congrats! Awesome coach!
 
Congrats and enjoy!
 
Enjoy, beautiful coach. Service center is great and be sure to schedule a warranty appointment towards the end of your first year.
 

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