Corey
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I am at Heritage now and will be here through the weekend of April 26. Was not planning on this and theoretically, by mid April I was supposed to be further North. That is why I did not make any comments about Oyster Fest.
In any event, Fletcher does wortk on coaches at Heritage on a regular basis. He did the Liberty show coach last week and he also did ours.
Fletcher HAND WASHES the coach and he does not use a pressure washer.
He spent roundabout 5 hours washing and waxing our bus and car. I paid him $350 …
Fletcher did a good job and we are happy with his work.
I think he is very busy. So you had better pick up the phone now to try to make an appointment.
Cheers,
Ronald
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Is that an 06 Parliment?
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Just tried again and nothing… so something must not be working right with my jump start either 🙁
Thanks for the tip
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Al,
Excellent job! You got’er fixed up from the rooter to the tooter!
Mark
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Gary: Yes we did trade. Haven’t got the Liberty yet. Should be the first week in May when they have it ready.
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I realize one comparison is not a reliable indicator of all the products in an industry, but I have a friend that bought a very nice high end motor home and he ended up spending his first winter in it at the dealer’s trying to get all the glitches repaired.
He dedicated three months of the time he could have been enjoying it to having it in the shop every day trying to get stuff fixed.
My reaction is twofold. The first is wondering how it is possible for that much to be wrong with a relatively new motor home? My second reaction is why isn’t the dealer getting the job done instead of nibbling away at the problems a little at a time?
I admit to being spoiled. On those occasions when someone else has worked on or repaired my coach I was in and out quickly and the repairs were correct. That is the experience most on this forum have. Since I have been doing my own repairs and maintenance I can say with confidence that a proactive maintenance program in which items are replaced prior to failure (such as batteries, tires, air bags, etc ) will make a coach not only much more trouble free, but will result in almost zero unanticipated repairs.
Every trip we take I end up with a list of stuff I need to pay attention to or fix. In almost every instance it is a burned out bulb, a loose cabinet hinge, or maybe a broken plastic latch. Simple things that mirror the same type of repairs I make in my house. But from time to time something that involves more effort will fail. I have had an alternator fail. I have had to chase an air leak on more than one occasion. I had an engine compartment fire. But these have taken place in over 25 years of ownership of Prevost coaches (3) and approaching 400,000 miles of use.
But keep in mind one very important thing……….mechanically whether it is a Prevost or a comparable size motor home there is going to be similar problems with the chassis, but likely a whole lot more with the house on a motor home because of the vast differences in build quality.
The motor home may use the same components, such as the inverters you mention, but the key is not necessarily the device, but how it was installed and used. I would be comfortable saying I cannot think of any weak point on any conversion that would steer me away from considering it. When you read of repairs and problems on this forum consider that we are almost at 1900 members now, and the coaches owned by our members range in age from very new to almost 30 years old. Our collective annual miles of use has to be a big number and there is no way anyone can point to problems attributable to their reasons such as premature failure, neglect, abuse, age, etc.
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Nice job. It’s a good thing that you have done.
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Cole Custom Coach out of Wyoming. Mine was buit in 1992. Think they still have a cabinet shop there. They didn’t build many. Cifford (Luvrbus) sent me a mag a few years ago with a advertisment from the nineties and they were pushing them.
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Dean:
Congrats to you both on the new coach as will miss you in the Liberty family but understand the need for those slides. With your bulldog, he needs more room. Hope to make it to Hearthside one day!!!
Safe Travels,
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With the current cost of about $8K to re-skin one of these Turkeys Jon, I am not willing to risk it. All it takes is one time, and if they have not flushed the system, or there is any type of acid in their lines, I will be toast.
I do however appreciate the information on that, I do not frequent their washes and I was unaware of that feature they are offering.
BCO
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Tim,
Others for sure will have more details but this is what I can add… The XLII is a full stainless exterior with various amounts of paint or not. an H which is what We have is pretty much all Fiberglass panels. Not sure why the H’s don’t have the delam issues. I have not been on the roof of an XL but my roof is as single sheet of alum.
Hope that helpsbill
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You are right…Tom will be getting a 4 slide one, and they are not old enough to have cracks…yet.
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Ours have cracks too… need to get them fixed asap !!
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Hey, thank you for all the kind words (much appreciated) on this piece. Just about every time I go out, I run into something interesting or amusing, and then try to channel it to my webpage. It is just part of the game for me, and I do my level best to report it as acurately as I can.
As I understand it, polishing a Prevo is close to $500 now, which is kind of pricey. Like Jon, I do most of my own work and I put up something on my site about polishing products (new) that I have had limited success with here lately. If you would like to read it, here is a Link: Polishing Tips
I would have posted it here, but it has quite a few photo’s and I am feeling lazy today.
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I don’t know why Peter bought that starter. He runs so many miles I don’t think he even turns the coach off.