Lakewood Camping World sells LEMONS
If you remember I'm the guy who had some issues with camping world in Lakewood NJ on some warranty work I had done on our 2010 DAMON Challenger 368 that we bought March of 2013. At the end of last season they replaced the slide controls, fixed the auto stairs and a few other things and even with my warranty they charged me 475 bucks AND had it for over 2 months. To make matters worse when I picked it up I found a kids toy under the bed (my youngest son is 21) and somebody stole my dog bone charger. Well I wanted to give you all an update.
Today (6/21/14)was the first time we took the unit out this season. Camping World winterized it for us last season as a "favor" after my awful experience with them last year. Well today I had to leave the campground after 1 hour. I tried to fill the unit with the city water and it leaked INTO our camper slide area and now the entire driver side rear is soaking wet As we were trying to leave the bedroom slide wouldn't retract. They claim they replaced that last season in the two months they had it but it's worse than ever now. Also the stairs wont retract when it's turned off no matter how I mess with the buttons. Also they never replaced the water heater plug. Man, you just can't make this stuff up. OK, this is where it gets really interesting... When I bought the coach nobody cleaned out the previous owners information. I have their address, phone number, everything, I only shudder if that information fell into the wrong hands. Well anyway, I called the previous owners and they told me in the 18 months they had the unit they had in excess of TWENTY (20) service calls. Many for the same problems I'm experiencing. Basically camping World sold me a lemon, that they originally sold new and they knew full well there was something wrong with that unit. I guess now I have no option but contacting an attorney and getting the records for this thing.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm actually sick to my stomach as I type this, I really enjoy camping, am going to retire at the end of the year and this was supposed to be our retirement present to travel at length.
Anyway, sorry for my rant and again if anyone has any ideas of how to rectify this awful situation I'm in please advise.
Thanks
Bob
Today (6/21/14)was the first time we took the unit out this season. Camping World winterized it for us last season as a "favor" after my awful experience with them last year. Well today I had to leave the campground after 1 hour. I tried to fill the unit with the city water and it leaked INTO our camper slide area and now the entire driver side rear is soaking wet As we were trying to leave the bedroom slide wouldn't retract. They claim they replaced that last season in the two months they had it but it's worse than ever now. Also the stairs wont retract when it's turned off no matter how I mess with the buttons. Also they never replaced the water heater plug. Man, you just can't make this stuff up. OK, this is where it gets really interesting... When I bought the coach nobody cleaned out the previous owners information. I have their address, phone number, everything, I only shudder if that information fell into the wrong hands. Well anyway, I called the previous owners and they told me in the 18 months they had the unit they had in excess of TWENTY (20) service calls. Many for the same problems I'm experiencing. Basically camping World sold me a lemon, that they originally sold new and they knew full well there was something wrong with that unit. I guess now I have no option but contacting an attorney and getting the records for this thing.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm actually sick to my stomach as I type this, I really enjoy camping, am going to retire at the end of the year and this was supposed to be our retirement present to travel at length.
Anyway, sorry for my rant and again if anyone has any ideas of how to rectify this awful situation I'm in please advise.
Thanks
Bob
