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Jim, I'm following in your foot steps with my Whirlpool washer. Factory tech did another "fix" while I was at Nappanee and it of course didn't fix it. He shimmed the door switch. About one of our every four loads won't do the final spin. I'll probably contact Newmar direct right after the first of the year. If they don't replace it we will toss it out next summer and replace it with a Splendid.

Our experience was the same when we were at the factory this summer. Made the appointment for a few minor issues that came up that would be fixed under warranty. In the meantime our windshield had gotten broke. They agreed to also replace that during our reserved time (insurance paid for that). All the work was expertly done. In most cases they don't fix anything that fails they replace it. Our tech (Mark) noticed that our headlamps were not aimed correctly and took it upon himself to properly adjust them. It was the little things like that we were impressed with.

We have always been retired since starting our RVing adventure, therefore using a GPS to route around traffic congestion in the planning stage has never been an issue for us. We preplan our travel days on the routes that we want to use to get to the destination we want to go to pretty much on our time table. We apply common sense, for example if we are coming from the south around Chicago heading to the Michigan side of Lake Michigan we don't do it during rush hour. The tools we use for preplanning include our Trucker's Atlas and the little Blue Truck Stop guide to name a few. If stopped in traffic or an interstate delay presents itself then we turn to I-phone apps (Waze, etc) and the portable CB for information and routing possibilities.

Actually Jim, on this thread he started Herman answered his question the next day and I don't see anything from him after that. I'm sure he probably looked at Herman's answer, which was exactly what he needed to know, and "hung up the receiver" for this subject.

I think you will find most FL service centers, and there are a bunch all over the U.S., will do a diesel generator service for around $200.00. The one I use up in central Illinois has a cheaper labor rate for service as compared to their regular mechanic repair labor rate. They did mine this summer while in that area for $195.00.

Our 1 year factory warranty was up the second week of November. On the morning of December 1 we were preparing to make the final run (606 miles) to our winter site in SW Florida. The Oasis showed a red fault light. Upon further investigation on December 2nd, and getting information from a Newmar forum, I strongly suspect the summer loop pump had gone bad. Contacted my selling dealer, North Trail. They were two weeks out on appointments. I explained what the issue was and that the only way I could get hot water was to use my bypass switch. She promised me she would see "what see could do". Well, if I had a buck for every time someone told me that...... Anyway, for two days she never even called me back to get the appointment 2 weeks out. I was going to head down to their main office (only camped 2 miles away) and start rattling someone's cage this morning but before I could she called me. She told me she had secured a summer loop pump plus a customer had called yesterday afternoon and cancelled his appointment and if I could get my coach to them they could repair it while I waited. I was thrilled. Broke camp and took it over. Asked them, if they had time to do the annual service on my Oasis while they were at it. Coach was fixed later that afternoon. North Trail had contacted Newmar and received approval to cover it under my original factory warranty. I just paid for my annual Oasis service and that was it. I was a happy camper! To me this says a lot about not only Newmar but North Trail as well.

Buying that coach for 2019 or 2020 you really may want to try to get them down 30% off MSRP. I am seeing more and more super singles on commercial big rigs. It is probably only a matter of time before luxury coaches start coming out with them.

If I remember correctly his Dodge is either a 2016 or 2017. I'm not that familiar with Ram 1-ton trucks but I know it is the top trim level and a really nice one. He mentioned it will have just under 60,000 miles when he arrives down here so he certainly wants to keep it for awhile. I just hope this repair gets everything fixed and it lasts for him. He should be rolling in Tuesday and he has already told me there will be some beer drinking involved after they get set up. I'm so shocked!

RayIN, I came across the jet fuel and DEF contamination also on-line. If I hadn't been the one to post this originally, and had read the same initial information posted by someone else, I would immediately suspect driver error. Actually even after more of the facts came out it would still have been hard for me to buy into the whole contaminated fuel from the pump cause, simply because there were no other obvious victims. I guess I had the advantage of knowing the person this happened to which factored into how I perceived the whole incident. Safe travels.

Actually I posted this incident, or what I know about it from my friend, on 4 RV related forums. Based on numerous factors I am still about 90% certain that the contaminated fuel came from the pump and was not caused by "driver error". As I have already mentioned to Carl C., my buddy is the type of person that doesn't mind laughing at himself and I'm pretty sure he would have been straight with me instead of stretching things. By posting on different forums I never intended to attack Pilot stations. Even though I will probably avoid that particular one up on I-65, I still use them almost exclusively. Heck, we did over 600 miles last Friday to get from Robertsdale AL to N. Ft. Myers and I fueled at a Pilot and then a Flying J. My buddies last text indicated that the adjuster/investigator from Progressive had been to the Dodge dealership. After talking to everyone, inspecting the damaged parts, looking at the fuel samples, they decided to cover the repairs. He was hoping the parts would be in late Friday or at least by Monday morning.

This could be a possibility. I suspect something similar happened to me when we were in the mountains on our motorcycle this fall. Pulled into a Mobile station outside of Pigeon Forge with two other bikes to get gas. When we left mine ran like crap and continued to do so for the next 2 days. Finally had to take it in to a dealership and they found dirt and junk inside the tank, filter, and fuel fill sack. The only way that could have happened was if some jerk had stuffed mud, sand, or something else down the nozzle before hanging it up. Now I tip the nozzle down and tap it on the pump island before sticking it in my vehicles to fuel.

His aux fuel tank is aftermarket in the bed of his truck. I don't think it was driver error. He would have had to pull the small DEF nozzle from the pump and use it to fill his DEF tank, then switch it and put a little in his diesel truck tank, then reach up in the bed of his truck and put a little more in the aux tank. The Dodge dealer pulled samples from both his aux tank and truck diesel tank and they were both contaminated with DEF. If he did do what I described above then my friend was having a stroke and not only the truck, but he would not have made it another 100 miles down the road!

This happened on Thanksgiving. That was 5 days ago so I'm thinking as much diesel as most Pilot's pump it wouldn't do any good for a sample to be taken of any of their tanks now. He does have samples which were taken by the Dodge dealer he will be keeping, plus his receipt of course. I will pass on that web sight to him though. I think there is a good chance a commercial truck would have gotten contaminated fuel also. Much better chance of that than another diesel RV getting the bad fuel prior to this Pilot station doing something.

The only way I can think of DEF contaminating a Pilot's underground diesel tank is if a DEF delivery driver dropped some by mistake in the wrong underground tank. A busy holiday weekend maybe they were hauling extra loads or had inexperienced delivery driver's helping out, don't know. I am confident he didn't do it by mistake. He pulled in needed diesel in his truck tank and his auxiliary diesel bed tank, plus some DEF. When he finally left his truck tank was full of diesel, his auxiliary tank was full of diesel, and his DEF tank was full. I don't think he would have taken the DEF nozzle and pumped DEF in the truck tank, again in the auxiliary tank, and then a third time in the DEF tank.

My buddy got contaminated diesel at this Pilot on Thanksgiving Day: Store 406, 9211 Lewisburg Highway, Cornersville, TN 37047 It was in the big rig lanes and the diesel was mixed with DEF. Repair is being completed now, final bill estimated to be between $10,000 and $15,000. Has anyone experienced a similar issue from that station on that day, or has anyone heard of someone having that issue? Pilot is saying nothing was wrong with their fuel or system that day. He had his receipt. He pulled in needing diesel in his 1-ton Ram tank, his auxiliary bed diesel tank, plus he wanted to take on a little DEF. He pumped 48 gallons of diesel and 5 gallons of DEF. When he pulled away from the pumps the truck didn't run right. Mobile service came out and changed fuel filter and said there was water in filters. 100 miles down the road he added about 12 or 14 gallons out of auxiliary tank and lost rpms. Dodge dealer tested fuel and it had DEF mixed with it. We are hoping that others can be found that had an issue that day. Repairs underway but he should not have to pay.

I generally have to see some type of additional reason to purchase any type of extended warranty, and even then if I'm buying from a dealer they better be reducing that price by about 40% or more. With our current RV we are full time and towing almost 10,000 pounds so I added some coverage. Recent new car purchase. Vehicle came with black painted rims. I could see rubbing one of those against a curb so we went with coverage after the dealer dropped it down to $1,200. Within a couple months we haven't screwed up the rims but we did lose a $350 fob which was covered under the extended warranty.

Sue, was there a reason you just didn't use the family members address where you still maintain a bedroom as your mailing address? Everyone's situation is different so only you can decide but if that was your address then it would certainly make things easier all around not only for insurance but for about anything else that came up.

Now that is really good advise, especially at our winter home site next to the Caloosahatchee River. Could be snakes out in the yard, or a scary gator! So far so good though.

I'm probably not going to take advice from a company that makes their money getting rid of mice and rats in homes. I'm thinking they would obviously bad mouth all home remedies and try to convince any homeowner that they were the only solution to keeping the little critters away. If my RV is parked at a site and there is a smell of moth balls detected under it where mice and snakes may crawl around during the night, it makes sense to me that they would rather move to the next site and leave my area alone.

These are the perforated bags of moth balls that Lowe's sells. There is probably a very slim chance that someone's dog, steer, or child could crawl under my parked coach and start sucking on a bag of moth balls. If that happens though I will immediately stop using them.

We purchased our first TST brand TPMS about eight years ago when we purchased our first used fiver. It had flow thru sensors with user replaceable batteries. Since then I have needed to monitor 12 tires instead of 4 so we just expanded our TST system. Now we have a bigger new color monitor that does not have to be plugged in all the time with 4 flow thru and 8 smaller sensors. Our TST systems have always worked perfectly.

Learned a trick living in SW Florida from a neighbor who actually was from down there. To keep rodents and snakes from coming inside your garage he said to put a couple bags of moth balls just inside the garage door. It worked like a charm and we never had any living thing larger than a spider come into our garage. Currently we are only stationary for two times during the year, once up in Illinois for a couple months and then back in SW Florida for 4 winter months. At these sites I toss a couple bags of moth balls under the coach. I rarely smell them outside and never have smelled them inside. We never have snake issues or rodent issues in or even around our RV.

Want to wish all my Brothers and Sisters out there a Happy Veterans Day!

We are on a auto pay monthly plan. I guess it is still different than that? I went all through the Verizon site and there is no mention of anything like this being brought out?

That is interesting that the "announcement" would be on that site but nothing on the Verizon app yet. My account still is giving me the number of days until I hit the 22 gigs and my data speed will be reduced on my mifi.