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RE: In Search of Local Repair Shops for Motorhome
DALLAS TEXAS AREA
Looking for a facility to perform standard PM on Motorhome
Cooland Flush, brake line Flush, serpentine inspection etc...
have tried Ford Commerical for Motorhome. Per Ford they have a list of Dealers that will work on MH. Unfortunatly the dealers don't agree with Ford. I have been told NO and the 1 that will has been delaying me for 3 months
Any others with F53 or F450 chassis in the Greater DFW area would appreciate any input
Try The Shop in Denton right up I-35W.
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bob_nestor
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03/05/23 05:59am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: 25% better mpg from current diesels? Too good to be true?
With diesel being about 25 percent higher in cost than regular gas where is the net savings?
Just saying/asking... :hThe price of gas has nothing to do with it. They aren't comparing gas and diesel.
Yeah, people almost always try comparing gas and diesel by the cost per gallon but what you're actually buying is energy content. Diesel has about 13% more energy content than gasoline, and when ethanol is added to gasoline it lowers the energy content even more. All this according to our faithful and honest Government Agency, the EPA.
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bob_nestor
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02/06/23 11:51am |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Tax refund scam Canada
Any time I get any email from someone not in my contact list I open the email and click on the the sender’s name or address in the from block. That opens the properties for the sender info and likely as not the “official looking” address is actually something crazy like dvgyhgcfgh;567,;7@$/;,?! .com. I click on Block this contact. And then move it to junk or spam.
Actually it's not difficult to fake the sending address in an e-mail. You need to look a bit deeper into the headers which aren't normally displayed to determine how real the e-mail is. Had a co-worker years ago who maintained the company e-mail system demonstrate that by faking up a message which appeared to come from the President of the US.
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bob_nestor
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01/27/23 06:06am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Dometic ceiling fan inoperable
If the fan only can come on when the vent cover is open, then there is a switch in the vent cover. Use a volt meter and check the vent cover switch. You can also jump/bypass the switch to see if it is malfunctioning. You can jump the 0 - 3 switch also to see if it is malfunctioning.
The switch is just a plunger and you can try tugging on the plunger to see if the fan comes on. When the cover closes it pushes the plunger down which disables the power to the fan. The plunger switch tends to get corroded or stuck with gunk, especially when camped near the seashore. If it is the plunger, a little WD-40 will clean it up and solve the problems.
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bob_nestor
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01/25/23 01:13pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Diesel Chassis service
Coach Specialists, who stores and does work on RVs near me, highly recommended Southwest International Trucks for work they couldn't do on my Sprinter. Southwest International has multiple locations in the DFW area with one in Arlington that might work for you.
If Denton isn't too far from you then you might try The Shop on I-35 just north of Camping World. A small family owned place that handles almost anything RV related. They're right next door to a diesel shop and I think the two businesses work together on issues as well.
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bob_nestor
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01/22/23 07:42pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: lighter weight four down toad?
We tow a 2021 chevy spark manual transmission 4 down behind our class c. A little over2k lbs. And seriously if it were not for the rear camera I would not know it was back there. Had the base plate put on at etrailer. The car is small but gets 40mpg and works perfect for the 2 of us.
Second that! But Sparks went out of production in Aug 2022. There are still boatloads of them being shipped into the US from the South Korea factory lots, but most of them are with automatic. Did finally manage to snag one (a 2022) with a manual and the dealer told me they're scrounging up and selling old ones with manual transmissions for MORE than what a new one with an automatic is going for.
The real problems are you can't order one any longer and GM is allocating remaining inventory to dealers pretty much without letting them know what they're getting or when. So dealers have them show up on the truck unexpectedly. Many dealers are marking them up way over MSRP because of the limited supply, but some dealers are letting them go pretty much at MSRP. And very few salespeople know how to work the GM inventory system to locate what you might be looking for. Luckily I found a salesgal in another State who knew how to work the system, remembered what I was looking for, contacted me when she had one show up and sold it to me at MSRP.
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bob_nestor
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01/17/23 07:01am |
Dinghy Towing
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RE: cheap solar panels
Seriously? Normally $250, on sale for $60? You know what they say: "If it sounds too good to be true...". Looks like one of the ads off Facebook, total scam.
I'd be careful with these - 12 hr cancellation window after placing an order, buyer pays for the return shipping costs, original shipping costs not refunded on a return, shipping via Air or Sea, web site hosted in Germany, 35 day max return window from date of purchase, 7-10 days to process order, shipping could be "delayed" for 20 days, etc, etc.
Web site scam detector validator rates the site as a 48.6 out of 100, which is a moderate score and rates them with a warning of "Doubtful, Perilous. Alert." Web site/domain was created in Nov 2022, rated as a poor design, with fairly high rating for Threat Profile, Phishing Score, Malware Score.
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bob_nestor
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01/07/23 03:17pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Voltage Drop - NOT Park Problem
I once had a similar problem but I see you stated in your original post that:
"- Checked connections at transfer switch, socket for shore power, junction where old EMS used to be, mains in RV breaker panel. Checked neutrals, grounds and feeds. All tight."
... so I'm not sure if this helps any, but...
The source of my problem was in the main RV breaker panel. Even though all the connections were tight I discovered that someone (at the factory) had cross threaded the screw holding the neutral line in the box. (Things worked for for a few years, then I had power issues.) The screw was tight but hadn't been holding the wire very well and over time the connection degraded with a patina build-up similar to what happens in the contacts in the transfer switch. I had to remove and replace the small bus bar the neutral was attached to and that fixed my problem.
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bob_nestor
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01/05/23 11:14am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Dish TV
I have had Dish TV for some time now and I have to admit up front I don't know anything about the newer "Wally" equipment - wish I did.
However, my receiver is an older VIP-722K that supports two hardwired connections as well as an Ethernet connection. To that I added a Sling device - both the Sling device and the VIP-722K are no longer being offered by Dish but can be found used on Amazon and eBay. With my setup I can access all my Dish and local OTA channels in my RV on the road using a Firestick and DishAnywhere as long as I have Internet access in my RV. For that I have a grandfathered AT&T Mobley with unlimited data (for $20/mo).
My setup works great at home and on the road.
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bob_nestor
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01/05/23 10:55am |
Technology Corner
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RE: solar awning
As I recall, Roadtrek was working with this a few years ago for their all electric Zion that was supposed to be able to run the A/C for 8+ hours off batteries which could then be recharged in 20 minutes with the high output alternator on the Sprinter chassis. Then they sold the company, got spun off the parent company, went bankrupt and eventually came back as a privately owned company when a French family which makes RVs bought the remains.
But it think before that electric Zion made it to market a LOT of the specs were changed to greatly lower expectations. The awning may have disappeared at that time.
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bob_nestor
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12/18/22 12:45pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Password
Assuming you're running some version of Windows, there is a free stand-alone bootable (USB or CD) utility that can be used to recover or reset the password. It's called the Offline NT Password and Registry Editor.
https://itoolab.com/windows-password/offline-nt-password-registry-editor/
The documentation is dated, but it does work with all versions of Windows.
If you're on a Mac you'll want to boot into single user mode and then just reset your password with the "passwd" command line utility. Same with any Linux or BSD system.
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bob_nestor
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12/11/22 01:21pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Class C Sprinter questions
well mines old now a 2006 sprinter LTV we,ve loved it from day one. couple little problems but a mom/pop shop on the road fixed. has 5cyc engine ,pulls my boat just fine.I,d buy another in a heart beat. look up leisure travel vans before you buy a different brand . they don,t build junk. nothing in our unit has gave us trouble. the frig one time but they didn,t build that.
I have a 2017 LTV on a 2016 Sprinter. It's been fairly trouble-free even though it's made two trips up the Alaska Highway and towed my 2-dr Jeep Wrangler both times. Pushing 70,000 miles on it with about 16 MPG overall. It's my first (and last diesel) and I'm not all that impressed with the Sprinter chassis - no complaints with the LTV coach though. Although it's been problem free for the most part, it's what I consider typical German Engineering - over-engineered, over-priced, over-complicated, high-end maintenance requirements and when it does break you need a team of PhD's to figure it out.
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bob_nestor
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11/16/22 06:10am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Steps acting up again
I had a similar problem. Never knew if the steps would come out when I opened the door. Sometimes I'd be outside nearby and suddenly they came out on their own without even opening the door. One time they went in while I was on them!!
The problem was solved when an RV tech changed the door magnet and connecting wires.
Same here. This is easy to test to see if that's the issue though. Just get a magnet and place it on the sensor. If the steps extend and retract when the magnet is moved towards and away from the sensor, then there's either too much of a gap between the magnet in the door and the sensor in the door frame when the door is closed and/or the magnet has gotten weak.
My simple fix was to install a shim under the magnet in the door frame. I found a garden hose rubber washer made a perfect shim.
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bob_nestor
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11/05/22 05:17pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: No LP to the stove top.
I had a similar propane problem on my RV. In my case the first "appliance" to fail was my propane generator - it would start, run a few seconds and then die. The other appliances seemed to work fine. Isolated it to the propane regulator which I replaced and that fixed things.
While trying to figure out the problem I did quite a bit of research and discovered that there is some oil added to propane. Sometimes the propane supplier overdoes the oil addition. Over time the oil tends to collect in the regulator and gum it up reducing supply to appliances. The first ones to show problem are those which are higher users of the gas supply, such as my generator. But in time everything using propane can show signs of failure or cease to work all together.
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bob_nestor
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11/04/22 10:12am |
Class C Motorhomes
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