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Wrenching Dad
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12 years ago I bought a travel trailer to take my kids to the river and dunes.
Single dad paycheck, I pulled it off.
Trouble was the Air Conditioning barely worked, and the RV dealer gave me the run-around fixing it. They never fixed it.
One day in Parker, it was sweltering, so I removed sections of the ceiling, not a neat or fun job, and I found several duct runs with tears (from sloppy construction) causing the cooled air to simply escape above and between the roof and ceiling short of the register outlets.
I fixed it myself, and several other items on my new trailer that the dealer sandbagged me on.
Damn,, the trailer now cooled even with the front door open.
A family camped several spaced down from us at Emerald cove,, and they mentioned their A/C barely cooled either.
They had the same Prowler trailer as us.
So,, we fixed their's too,, same problems.
12 years later:
So I take the new RV in today to the same dealer,, the heat doesn't blow.
Runs and lights and the flame comes on,, but just the kitchen floor gets super hot, no air at all through the vents.
"It's normal, they all do that, it's supposed to" the dealer tells me.
This is the first unit of this new line/brand they got in, they have no others,, how the hell do they know?
Well,, it ain't normal for everyone to be freezing,, I've owned several RV's with good heating airflow,,, this one has zero airflow.
I lost it.,
Damn I can't stand myself sometimes,, but I detonated.
So here I sit, wishing I handled it better.
I was pushed over the edge.
So I made some suggestions on what the problem could be,,, called the factory and they concurred what the problem could be,,,, "We've seen a few of these, squashed, opened plenums or ducts during construction.'
Wife mentioned that during walk through,, they avoided running the heat, and distracted us away from testing it.
I was amp'd,,
Overall,, not the way to handle things.
Keep you cool, it will do you good in the long run.
But some of us are fallible fools that never learn.
Single dad paycheck, I pulled it off.
Trouble was the Air Conditioning barely worked, and the RV dealer gave me the run-around fixing it. They never fixed it.
One day in Parker, it was sweltering, so I removed sections of the ceiling, not a neat or fun job, and I found several duct runs with tears (from sloppy construction) causing the cooled air to simply escape above and between the roof and ceiling short of the register outlets.
I fixed it myself, and several other items on my new trailer that the dealer sandbagged me on.
Damn,, the trailer now cooled even with the front door open.
A family camped several spaced down from us at Emerald cove,, and they mentioned their A/C barely cooled either.
They had the same Prowler trailer as us.
So,, we fixed their's too,, same problems.
12 years later:
So I take the new RV in today to the same dealer,, the heat doesn't blow.
Runs and lights and the flame comes on,, but just the kitchen floor gets super hot, no air at all through the vents.
"It's normal, they all do that, it's supposed to" the dealer tells me.
This is the first unit of this new line/brand they got in, they have no others,, how the hell do they know?
Well,, it ain't normal for everyone to be freezing,, I've owned several RV's with good heating airflow,,, this one has zero airflow.
I lost it.,
Damn I can't stand myself sometimes,, but I detonated.
So here I sit, wishing I handled it better.
I was pushed over the edge.
So I made some suggestions on what the problem could be,,, called the factory and they concurred what the problem could be,,,, "We've seen a few of these, squashed, opened plenums or ducts during construction.'
Wife mentioned that during walk through,, they avoided running the heat, and distracted us away from testing it.
I was amp'd,,
Overall,, not the way to handle things.
Keep you cool, it will do you good in the long run.
But some of us are fallible fools that never learn.
