Repairs - what do full-timers do?

Mickeyfan0805 wrote:
We are not full-timers, but I like to dream about the possibilities of long-term rv'ing once retirement comes around (it's still 20+ years out - but it's never too early to dream!). This morning's dreaming raised a very practical question. How do full-timers handle major repairs?

We've never experienced it, but I read stories of people who have their units in the shop for weeks, or even months, for repairs. So, it made me wonder, what do you all do when the unit is in the shop? I could see secondary housing becoming very expensive very fast.

Absolutely nothing practical to me in this question at this time - just a point of curiosity! If I'm lucky...maybe it will matter in 20 years or so.

My experience is when you hear people talk about weeks or months, it's:
- Warranty work where the scheduling is out of your control
- Insurance work where if it's taking months, you probably fought not to have it totaled.
- It's a piece of junk that's not worth repairing.

For normal work, you have options:
- Most work can be done in a day
- Mobile techs can do a lot.
- Once we needed to stay overnight. Checked ahead of time and they let us stay and plug into their building.