Things break when you’re in an RV. In fact, when you think of it, it is like a mini earthquake all the time as you drive down the road, what with all the bouncing and swaying. So as our Janet Arnold says in today’s RV Lifestyle blog post, when something goes wrong, don’t despair. Self-diagnose…even if that means getting down on the ground and crawling underneath your rig.
Self-diagnosing RV Problems on the Road
One day a few weeks ago I was walking back to my rig when I noticed a tube hanging underneath my rig. Oh no!!!! What was that, and why had I not seen that before? My first reaction is panic and all the wild questions roll around in my head. What is that? Is it serious? How do I look at it? Do I need…
- As a first time RVer, I am rapidly learning that you’d better be able to fix a lot of problems yourself. While traveling the south last winter and caravanning with another couple, we both encountered some problems and figured we’d just stop in any RV repair place and get it fixed. It seems we were not the only ones trying to escape Michigan’s brutal winter! Who’d a thought? Most places where overwhelmed with other customers and couldn’t fit us in for quite awhile- a common problem. Labor prices in some of these places approached $200 per hour! Needless to say, we fixed most of our problems ourselves in the end. The problem to consider is, what tools to I pack next time? The worse problem we had was at Padre island national seashore with my brother-in-law’s brand new Prism Elite . The slide out would not retract! Fortunately he knows the VP at coachman and they sent a tech out. The first one they sent couldn’t get there until the next day late, so we waited, and he decided, without telling anyone, that he wasn’t coming! The second guy they sent was a bulldozer mechanic, he was stumped as you might imagine! The third guy was a sunshade specialist, whatever that is, and he was stumped. By now it’s Monday so they were able to find a local guy that was able to disconnect the motor and we all pushed the slide in! Then we had to take it to Corpus Christi to get it fixed. The only reason we got in there was the VP pressured them because they were a Coachman trailer dealer ( not a Prism dealer) and even then it took a week. After this long diatribe, the moral is, you may have to learn to fix things yourself if you own an RV!
- …. by the way, this all happened during the gov’t shutdown and the campground was closed but everyone was camping in the parking lot. During the week we dr-camped, we learned a lot ( the hard way) about batteries and their lifespans!
