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Lifeline/Truk Warranty Service
Just a quick note on Lifeline warranty service. I had a generator start battery go bad after 4 years. Replacement was simple, fast and without any drama. Great service. As a side note, the last one went 7 years. I should also say the Lifeline folks seem to really like Tom.
Thank you Lifeline.
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Your lifetime free dues are now in place George. You can’t beat that type of service, 4 years old and they still gave you a break. If you weren’t goofing off, you could be at the Maintenance Seminar and thank them in person.
2005 XL Thompson Coach
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I have two 8D Exide VIPro batteries connected to the Zantrex FSW3012. They have a date code of April 2013. I do not that those batteries need replaced but if they do, what do you recommend?
Ron
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By the looks of the picture and corrosion they’re wet batteries and may even be start batteries, I can’t find any info on them.
Lifeline are the best, 8DA assuming you have auto post.
Fullriver 8D is a little cheaper, but not by much.
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That can be a philosophical question instead of one specific to your situation Ron.
Neither my wife or I wants issues when we travel so to the extent possible I do two things. The first is to service the coach with as much attention to either the published maintenance schedules, or to my own schedule to replace wear or age items based on my guess as to their useful life. As an example I treat air bags as having a 10 year life, and batteries as having a 5 year life. When they reach that age, regardless of condition I remove and replace them.
I know I am often throwing away parts with a lot of life left in them, but I do not want to risk stretching their lifespan to find out just how far they would have gone. I have different reasons for my choice of lifespan and I am very comfortable with knowing I am spending money prematurely because it is a risk versus reward equation and I do not want to accept the risk.
The second consideration is the quality of the replacements. There is not much I can do about options on air bags or brake chambers for example. They are going to be what Prevost provides because in the case of those two items they are my source. But I have a wide selection of batteries to choose from. My education on batteries came early on with our first coach and it was painful learning my best choice would be the only way to go. While traveling with that first coach we experienced chassis battery failure and house battery failure (separate occasions) and while we were able to get replacement chassis batteries, or limp along with a failed house battery that I had to disconnect from the system it was a lesson learned.
Since I started using a five year schedule for my batteries, and for never allowing them to get below 50% discharge to the extent possible and most importantly by sticking with Lifeline because of their quality life has been good.
I am not saying how I do things will work for anyone else. I just know that batteries in particular have a large role to play on our coaches and not only nursing failing batteries is bad, but as batteries start to age and fail they create issues that look a lot like failing inverters and a lot of folks have spent serious money chasing what they thought were inverter issues, only to find they just needed batteries. Our travel needs to be drama free so I think we have a practice that works for us.
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