repairs while full time

I've waited weeks, but never months. That's why I prefer a towable rather than a MH. At least your bed isn't in the shop.

2oldman wrote:
I've waited weeks, but never months. That's why I prefer a towable rather than a MH. At least your bed isn't in the shop.

Well, we are planning on a fifth wheel, but it the RV repairs that I am talking about, not the TV.

I can't imagine repairs on a non-motorized coach that would take that long.

2oldman wrote:
I can't imagine repairs on a non-motorized coach that would take that long.

I can't either, but just came from another forum where warranty
repairs took 3-4 weeks! Got me wondering just how long repairs should normally take, and how common long repair times are.

"Knock on wood..." Coming up on 8 years full-timing and I have only had mine in for work overnight once, and I think that took 3 days, but I was able to stay in the rig at night. It hasn't been an issue for me, but I acknowledge I have been fortunate to not have alot of problems requiring dealer service.

Well, depending on what breaks and how remote the dealership is, I can see it taking a week or two to get parts shipped. Then, if the shop's busy (or closed because of Holidays), it may well be another week or two before they get you in for service. So, really a 3-4 week wait for something unusual may not be outrageous.

First, we let the repair shop that (1) we are fulltimers and (2) we will need to be able to plug in because we don't leave the coach overnight. And if they can't accomodate us, then we will go elsewhere - - anyone who works on diesel pushers understand that and they are accomodating.

Second, we are there everyday, so we are watching what is being done and we don't get shuttled aside for someone sitting in the waiting room because that is where we are. We've watched people drop rigs off and those rigs are moved to the side until they have someone with idle time while they take care of those sitting in the waiting room.

Third, we get to know the office staff asking for recommendations for laundries, things to go see in town, good places to eat, etc. All that helps humanize us. We also do things like go pick up some doughnuts for the technicians - - again so that they see us as someone they want to help get on the road again.

We also try to make lemonaide out of lemons, there are neat things to see in all towns, a good breakfast place, etc.

Barb

In some areas it does takes several weeks. For example, Florida in the winter the RV service departments are booked solid for weeks.

We've never found months to be a time frame we had to deal with, but have experienced two situations where we were down for a week plus. We were able to get the coach into a shop and return to our home base in our toad which isn't possible for true full timers without a home.

Had we encountered either of those situations as full timers we would have had to stay in the coach between work shifts, if possible, or find local accomodations in a motel or something else acceptable.

I think that our fears of the unknown/unexpected are more usual than the occurances of this happening. We learn to adjust to what we need to do rather than stress over what may happen.

Right now we're parked at Camping World with power and next week they are going to replace both slide toppers and a few other things we need to upgrade. There are rigs sitting both in and outside for the body shop to work on. Some of these rigs have been sitting for weeks now waiting for things like caps, compartment doors, windows, and is some cases approval from insurance companies.