Davy
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If you don’t have own a Prevost, that’s where you put all your extra money in!!
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I-10 coast to coast is likely one of the most boring drives in the US. If you don’t want to go through Atlanta and visit Stone Mountain, then you should at least stop in Pensacola and visit the Air Museum there. Totally awesome. As mentioned, San Antonios River Walk is a great place to visit but I am having a hard time thinking of anything else fun along the way. You can stay in Las Cruces, NM at the Hacienda resort but if you are in the mood to go N. on 25 from there you can visit the VLA array in Soccoro, NM. Despite not understanding much of the info, it was a great learning experience. If you want to go through Flagstaff then a visit to the Lowell Observatory is also an excellent opprotunity. You will, of course, pass by New Orleans if you need a good drinking binge! Any special interests you like that someone might be able to help you locate?
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I apologize to everyone. I should have know that this group would be no different that those I have encountered with the POG’s or the Prevost Prouds.
I have tried to explain my troubles with clarity and you like to turn it into my fault. Just because I trust a company to work on my coach and they charge me for the trouble-shooting they did and the parts they replaced and they fail does not mean they should not be paid or I should insist they continue to work on a problem they can’t find. I have asked all the right people for help (Bill Jensen and others at Prevost and the DD reps at the FMCA and other rallies) and all have failed me. I do most of the repairs on my coach so I do what I can but this is an issue that someone who understands the DDEC 1 understands. Nearly all of these folks are dead. I did get an suggestion here that some might be able to help either with a new (different) ECM and from someone who suggested they might be able to help take it back to mechanical but neither of these offers of help have seen any follow through.
It’s about right that someone would suggest I don’t deserve to have a working Prevost and should buy a plastic coach. I just want what I have, and love, to work properly. I am not sure why you find that to be something that would be twisted back to me. I am over my head. I bought a coach I should have been able to depend on and paid good money for it even though it was 11 years old at the time of purchase. Then, do to no ones fault other than my own, I lost all my money in the stock market drop back in 2000. Now, I just need to keep going with what I have. No one will take this coach in trade (and we have tried) so I just reach out from time to time when I think I have found a new resource. I reached out, I tried to explain what I have and have not done and the real experiences I have had only to find the waters to be shark infested. I will never understand the hostility found when anyone says anything negative about this brand or service but maybe you never see it when you can simply write a check to make it go away.
I would like to say it’s been fun…….
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DKO,
No problem, I’ll be here when you’re ready and hopefully the price of lead won’t go up.. FWIW, I had a brand new set of Deka’s die early, less than 3 years, hope your’s go longer. I get no pleasure out of someone having to spend tons of money on batteries, it’s just a necessary evil.
Where should I send the Lifeline Key Chain so you have a reminder?:)
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I don’t care what anyone says about how wonderful a Newell is, or how much it is like a Prevost. The folks from Newell can do all the comparisons they want but here is the bottom line:
The Prevost chassis we all enjoy is a bus. Newell makes a big deal of that fact. There claim in fact has always been the Prevost is a bus, but a Newell is a coach. But think about that for a moment. I know that my bus that happens to be a motorhome conversion has billions (not millions) of miles of experience behind it. The chassis has developed over many decades in use for commercial purposes with both seated coaches and entertainer conversions. In those applications they rack up miles ten times faster than the average motorhome conversion so we benefit greatly because as Prevost learns of improvements that can be made to the chassis we get the benefit.
Those of us who have had a range of Prevost conversions are very likely to say their first Prevost was a dream to drive and as reliable as an anvil. But each succeeding coach drove even better and had even more improvements to the strength of the chassis. My first coach tracked down the road as straight as an arrow with little or no effort. The next one which was a decade newerdrove even better. Now I have one with holes cut in the side for slides and I expected that Prevost may have compromised the chassis to do so, but the reality is my coach which is almost a decade newer than my second coach not only is the quietest coach we have had with absolutely no noises coming from the chassis despite the big holes in the side, but it drives so much better than the previous coaches it amazes me.
I have never driven a Newell. Don’t intend to. Don’t need to to know if they squeak or rattle going down the road, or if the coach is affected by the crown in the road, passing trucks, or side winds. I know what I have has been the result of engineering and development that has been the result of more miles of experience in a year than Newell likely has with its total lifetime production of coaches.
If a Newell was so good they wouldn’t be comparing themselves to a Prevost. How many Prevost owners compare their coach to a Newell?
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Jim,
When you get the price on that part from a truck parts place share that information. You are going to find the exact same price disparity on the brake chambers for your coach.
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Yup, mine had the snaps. Sorry, no pictures. The curtain was one piece of cloth which extended from the rearmost portion of the driver side window to the rearmost portion of the entry door window. A snap was placed on the cabinet at the front of the entry door so that if you stopped snapping there, 3 of the 4 windows would be covered and you could use the entry door.
My current coach has electrically operated roller sun shades on the 3 windows. Had a 4th on entry door but the wind screwed it up and I don’t miss it. The electrics are easy and have the addl benefit of being easy to adjust from the driver’s seat as sunshades while driving.
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Is there no end to the abuse I have to take???????
My grandmother used to take Geritol and nobody thought anything about it until we found out the alcohol content. I’ve switched to booze.
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Tom,
I have replaced all of my halogens in fixtures just like yours. I have used the LED “tower” bulbs shown above but I used the soft white 3700K model. I do not have dimmers.
I tried using the disc type and found one at Camping World that worked great but it was $18 apiece! On line I found a Chinese supplier with the same (looking) disc for about $2 or $3 each. I ordered 36 and they were deliverered within a week. Unfortunately the Chinese version had a small coil mounted on the back that would not allow the LED to mount in the fixture. They were returned for credit and I ordered and received the replacements in another week.
I am totally satisfied with them and have some extras if you would like to wait until you get to Pelican to see and try them.
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Cripper, given where you are located, I would check with Jeff (don’t know him, but Jon does) to see if he can do a PDI. I understand that he can do the house, so that becomes a one stop shop. Otherwise Prevost Jacksonville and Parlament/Clearwater. After Jeff’s comments, I would not consider that coach without a thourough check.
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Tom I replaced mine with the led all the ones on a on off switch no dimmer , I will go down to bus and get number they are plug and play , they look like that bulb but have LEDs around side and one facing down I will take pic I just got some the other day…
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Yes, use test strips (50 for $18 at Napa) and cut the coolant filter open and spread out the element just like you would for an oil filter. If you have OTR, also check the Parker stainless steel coolant filter in the main heat exchanger bay. In 30 minutes you’ll have a very good idea how well the coolant system was maintained.
Gerald
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Thanks that all makes sense maybe they only have 12 volts ill check
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Ok, just hand over your checkbook. Oh, make sure it’s loaded. Our plan, when the time comes, will b a DDEC III XL-45 hopefully with Rogue slide or other that is sealed by squeegee system. OTR is a must, along with four cruise airs, Fisher-Pander generator in a box with exhaust pipe thru coach roof. No house computer, dual 12 volt water pumps with combined holding tank. An all wood interior. Granite Lite tiles thru out (for )reduced weight) with full heated floor, bedroom ceiling fan, one bath sink, (no sink in bedroom), manual pocket doors, with complete side aisle and all in one bathroom closed off from side aisle. No ceiling mirrors, and all sides windows mus be left open so not covered by frig, or cabinets. So in an XL45, that would include on the coach 5 salon windows, and two in the bedroom per side. No obstructions seeing out. Two Isri seats in cockpit, manual salon silhouette shades, with a Roman in bedroom Microwave vented thu roof.
A decent 3 or 4 burner stove, not a two burner , LP or induction, a disposal (our coach now has one) a fixed inside front TV, no swing down, and no underbelly entertainment center
This coach would be truly total electric, full of riveted panels, no diesel fired anything except DDEC engine and generator. Inothrwards, no Webasto/Aquahot heating instead using heat pumps /heatstrips, and electric toe kicks. LED lighting thru out
Exterior awnings be manual, no rooftop anything beyond antennas
These are some of our wishes for our next coach.