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Tom,

I replaced my Hunter Douglas blinds and the only alternative I could find was to order the blinds from a authorized Hunter Douglas dealer, no exceptions. The blinds you describe was what I installed, basically a replacement in kind. Ours are manual and operate trouble free. The number that sticks in my mind is $2500 to $3000 for replacing all the blinds in the coach.

I was easy.

Hector

[Ed]

Fix them or replace them with the same thing. You are in a Liberty. Act like it.

And besides, it’s only money and there is no sense having any left when you go to the big RV park in the sky.

But I understand perfectly how nice it is to have day/night shades. We had manual day/night shades in our 87, manual operation. Lower the bottom section and you had the day shades, lower the top section and you had the solid night shades that were so opaque no light came through. We liked them because we were running often in the winter with the 87 coach and spent quite a bit of time in sub zero temps. The night shades functioned as barriers against the cold that spilled off the windows.

The 97 coach shades were similar to the electric ones we now have but were manually operated. depending on how much you lowered them they were like jalousie windows in that they were day shades or became night shades by pulling the cord a little in one direction. The only drawback was that type was a pain to deal with bugs that seemed to get caught. The ones in the 87 which were two separate sets with the lower set day, and the upper set night worked well and we didn’t have to look at bugs trapped in the slat.

We bought some cell type shades from Lowe’s for our house. Good quality and for the last 13 years have been trouble free. Except for having to change the mounting from what you have I don’t know why something like those would not work if you are insistent upon converting your Liberty into a Winnebago.

Besides, I want someone to do all the research on the best and cheapest way to repair or replace the electric shades with more electric shades so when mine puke I just have to ask you how to deal with that. I like pushing a button to move the shades up or down.

[Hector]

Wow, tough crowd 🙂

[Chuck]

Oh Deha Gawd!!!

Will somebody please make sure that Jon gets his meds tonight and gets an escort back to his ward!!!

[Chuck]

Fix them or
replace them with the same thing.

That won’t be happening! My vintage shade
electric control boards are unobtainable. It’s bad enough that
Liberty had to hook several blinds to the same control board, so if I
choose to open/close just one shade, I will get two moving and they
might be on opposite sides of the bus. My only option is to open or
close all. And it’s only a matter of time before the next board goes
bad. Yours are likely a newer version.

We’ve always had day/night shades and
compared to the those, these suck! With day/nights, you can block out
the sun without the bus having to feel like a dark tomb. You also
have some privacy with the day shades and still allow plenty of light
in.

Let’s see, pull a cord, choose day,
choose night or open completely vs pushing a button for either open
or closed! I’ll take the reliability of the pull cord and day/nights
any day.

Oh ya, while we’re on shades, OTR creates
another little dilemma… You have to raise all shades when OTR is on
or your super expensive Hunter Douglas blinds look like little
versions of the Goodyear blimp. Talk about billowing! So you’re
going down the road, it’s hotter than a black Hummer in August in
Vegas, but you can’t lower the shades to help block the sun because
the OTR vents get blocked and your shades look like parachutes.

Ya I know, compromises……

[Rick]

Whine, whine, whine……….

OK, so it is hot and you want OTR. If you want to keep the sun from beating in the coach while running the OTR, raise the bottom of the shades about 2″.

Or do like I do. Put out the awning. Other drivers tend to move over. Most of the time anyway.

[Georges]

Amazing!!

To hear a comment of a Liberty Coach that is not complementary is definitely a breath of fresh air.

Thanks for your insight Tom.

Hector

Country Coach Owner

[Rodger]

News Flash: Liberty’s new H’s have,gasp, ducted roof airs and a decent size shower. And yet, the the sun still rises in the east.

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Hmmm, my CC over the air works perfect–shades up or down 🙂

Jon, talking about driving with the awnings out remibds of a no shit true story. While sharing the balloon festival grounds with a bunch of Monaco owners (I used to own one) we were taling about the unreliable hydraulic pump. An owner of a 42-footer said his failed when trying to leave Sturgis. Of course getting a tech over after bike week is impossible. Being on a tight schedule, he drove the coach with both front slides fully extended all the way to Dallas. It was a good thing he didn’t have to go through a toll booths!

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Did I read…..Win a Bagle?

[Bill]

Gil – Should I have my feet up high, it might be getting a little deep!:)

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I did notice that it was three CC guys that piled on, Tom. But since there were only three I did not step in to help you because they already had such a disadvantage is would not have been fair.

[AL]

OK thanks.. Isn’t CC bus air a big bag of ice with a fan blowing across?

The fun begins boys!:)

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Funny story: This past fall in Arizona, we met a guy with a 2012 Elegant something or other equipped with Prevo bus air and 4 cruise airs. Assured time and time again that everything was working as intended, he was more than peeved that he could only sleep in his bebroom while his new 1.8m bus was moving(he sleeps on the sofa when he’s parked). Meanwhile, with our CC bag of ice system, we were whatever temp we wanted to be, parked or not.

[Corey]

He needed to turn the OTR on.

At which point he would be chillin’.