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If you have the original Prevost Factory Build Sheet it also has the paint codes and colors for your bus listed.

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Not my idea. Prevost has done leak checks in that manner.

As to diagnosing your own leaks (as relates to skin delamination) those tests have to be done by Prevost so if there is a skin delamination issue they can document it properly and report the findings to Canada for a determination on how much they will participate financially on the repairs.

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As long as we are discussing draining an air tank I have a question. Mark and I discussed this yesterday but I wonder how many others have experienced this. As a background I drain all tanks in succession every 5000 miles when I service the coach. I change air dryer cartridges every two years. But this is a new to me coach and only the second time I have serviced it.

I drained the tanks starting with the aux air, then secondary. No surprises. Both dry. Then I did the primary and as I cracked the drain valve I got what appeared to be a small puff of what looked like dry rust (dust). I wasn’t paying real close attention so it could have been my eyes deceiving me. So when I drained the wet tank I looked really close and I cracked the valve slowly. Sure enough I got a clearly visible cloud of dry rust. Then it blew clean. Not a drop of oil or water.

I am not due to change my air dryer element, but if my eyes weren’t lying my air system is bone dry. Mark said he has experienced the same thing. I have drained tanks in the past and gotten nothing out of them, but never before have I gotten dry rust powder.

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I personally would run my generator for 2 ac’s even for 1 ac… my generator loves to run and loves being under a full load.. I think Jon determined sometime back that our genset had the highest recorded hours (forgotten how many) of the many who said how many hours they had on theirs and mine was way over double as many… It runs great… quiet and clean just like it should. The fuel consumption is minimal compared to the benefits. We can’t even hear it running when we stop if the ac’s are on.

Just our personal preference.

Diane

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We did not experience these issues during our test drive or pdi. We were told that the batteries are a year old. I’ll have to look through the maintenance records to verify and also physically check the dates on them. I don’t intend to use anything but agm as those have worked well for me im my street rods, boat, and previous rv as well as my plane. I stopped by the dealer today to get my plates and they had found that even though I had checked the breakers, the one on the genset was tripped explaining why the gen was not working. They had it running and it was workfing fine. I did ask them to let me shut it off and try to run 1 roof air on one inverter and they told me that to do that the key must be on and or the engine running in order to do that. That may also explain some of my troubles. When we did try that though the lights flckered and the inverter popped it’s circuit breaker. So based on these threads it is possible that I have a batter issue so I will need to thoroughly check the batteries out. I have 8 4d batteries so I hope they are ok. The dealer will check them for me to make sure as well. I do want to figure out how to properly check/test them myself as well. I was told that there is no bypass, if one inverter goes then every device on that circuit goes. I also found that if the inverter is shut off as this one was then the fridge was off. It is a large 110 only residential type fridge. I was told that the ac2 (gen) would get preference over ac1 (shore pwr) but that does not match what I read in the manuals, they say the opposite so I’ll need to do some testing to find out. As far as all the other issues they fixed those as well. It is supposed to be bad weather saturday so we will try another outing the following weekend. They wanted me to turn off the auto start feature but I suspect they just did not want the gen to start running while in storage. They are also my indoor storage as well as my dealer. I agreed but I think I will turn that back on in case thier power goes off my gen will keep my batteries up and will shut back off once they fix their power issue. This has already happened a couple of weeks ago so I think I’ll stick with that.

Thank you all for all your feedback. I look forward to more discussions and I will be asking lots of questions so can get as educated as possible so I hope I don’t wear yall out. Unfortunately I have to get on my work computer to respond as this interface won’t work on my home computer/browser. It posts but is blank ,everything I typed is gone. I suspect my older software is the issue. Probably some newer feature that won’t work on mine.

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Thank you for your quick response. I hope I did not mislead you. While I was waiting for the financing which took several weeks I spent every chance I got with the coach learning everything I could and trying every switch and device I could find and asking an extreme amount of questions and checking everything from top to bottom. It was only the pdi that got cut short. The salesman was very accomodating and promised that everything would work or get fixed. I believe he will make good on that promise. The coach was a one owner coach and I have most of the maintenance records and it appears to have been well cared for. I agree with not makinig any changes until properly educated and then only in an appropriate way and only if needed. As a pilot I’m just used to more redundancy and as you pointed out I may have more than I realize and have just not been fully read in yet. I look forward to advice on the coach because while the salesman was quite knowledgeable I’m sure that there are those that are even more so that can help me get started on the right foot. I admit there is allot I don’t know yet about the gen and inverters in as much as this specific configuration and it’s operation but plan to quickly resolve that. I will say that we still stayed in it for three nights and did drive it and loved every minute of it. The first time I fueled it up I got drenched when it shut off so I learned another lesson there too. We are very excited as this is our first prevost and we are looking forward to making some trips in it and making new friends and having fun.

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Looks like the adventure is well underway Kevin, keep it coming, would like to visit the northwest one day bus.

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Since I am dispensing bad news, Dometic bought the Cruiseair folks and the units that have been used in coaches for decades have been discontinued. They may still have some support and inventory. Can anyone post their contact information?

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From the big brew-ha they had on the CC owners web site several years ago. Actually one CC owner ran the coach with and without the full rear mud flap. Here is the short version………

Based on actual temp findings his conclusion was …..the only thing the flap did was advertise the coach manufacture.

Coach actually ran cooler without.

On with your question the road dirt was actually less on the toad windshield without full flap. This then makes a pretty good case to install the shield to protect the toad.

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Does this mean we’ll be seeing dues credit ?

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Truk where are you having the paint work done?

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That was what the tail lights looked like on the 87 coach I had. A few years later Prevost introduced the “stacked” tail lights and the big single Ford headlights in place of the quad sealed beam headlights (which were way better).

Owners were falling all over themselves to make their older Prevost look like the new style which went all the way to the 1999 chassis year. Now Gil is going retro.

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Peter,

Did you replace existing spades or did you replace what was on it with spades?

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Ditto on what he just said.

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Have had Freeze 12 in my system for over 2 summers going on 3. Napa had a few bottles when I bought in west texas. Paid a little over 100 bucks for the 30 lb bottle. That is the reason I stayed with 12. Bought 3 bottles of the stuff. Wanted double the price with the 134. I’ve heard the propane based is no bueno. Works for me.