repairs while full time

We've had a few instances where we have had to wait some days or a week waiting for parts, but we just brought the rig in then and had the work done in a day. In almost 8 years we have not been out of the rig overnight unless we wanted to be. It's really not a problem to worry about.

Certainly possible to be stuck in some extended stay situation for repairs. Especially in high demand areas in season.

Our experience has been with mostly smaller stuff. A/C needing replacement or transfer switch burning up.

In each of those cases, we simply called a local place, explained the situation and said we know they were really busy but could they fit us in since this was our home. Every time they said be here first thing in the AM and expect to stay the day and we'll see what we can do. Finished, paid and home the same night.

Be nice, accommodating and grateful. Generally these places don't see that and they'll try and take care of you.

It would depend on what kind of repairs to be made but a week or more is excessive. What you need to do is tell them that you're full-timers and you need to sleep in your rig nightly. If they can't accommodate that then find a repair facility that will. We've never heard of that request being refused. During the days you sitesee, roam the mall, go for hikes, enjoy a few hours in a shady park with a picnic lunch and book, go to movies, bowling, etc. Just pretend you're on vacation. :)

We had to wait over the weekend for parts to arrive once... The MFG wanted to send it regular mail and we talked them into overnight express but had to pay them and extra $10 for that to happen..

Over the weekend, the repair shop let us stay at their place with water/elec hookup.. In over 9+ years of fulltiming, that was the longest we waited for repairs..
Since we were fulltiming, really didn't bother me and enjoyed the stay using our tow vehicle to get around town during that time..

But, we did have a very large fir tree fall thur our house one time, had to move outa it for a month or so while they fixed the roof and other damage it done..
I would consider it about the same if something happened to the RV, just get a
motel room and wait for repairs to get done..
Repairs can take a long time with a stick house too... Just ask someone who went thru a hurricane or tornado or floods...

I suggest buying used and out of warranty then you won't have to worry about approval from the manufacture for repairs. And since you have saved $'s by buying used you'll have the $'s to pay for any repairs. Collision is a different matter so drive safely.

We pick and choose our service options with the caveat that we are able to stay in the rig overnight. Also they have to work around our 19 y.o. cat with the gimp leg. We take the dog with us during work. She would want to help other wise.

We spent 6 days in a towing company's compound in Griffin Georgia waiting for Dexter to send us parts(thanks Dexter)but the terrific folks over at LRC Towing hooked us up with power and water and treated us like family and made the whole experience something to look back on and laugh. Now i'm sure we're going to run into a situation that will require some serious repair that will need to be done at a shop and if so we'll stay with the rig,if not then find a nice hotel and tourist it.

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.

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.

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