looking for owners of 2004-2005 Pace Arrows
I'd like to make contact with others who own one of the new (2004, 2005) Pace Arrows so we can share experiences, problems, good things, etc.
Forum Discussion
Just thought I would touch base with everyone on recent happenings with our Pace Arrow.
We woke up to a flat tire on our last trip of the season. Turned out to just be a loose valve stem. The road service that helped us said that it is a common problem and the eventually they will get loose. We will probably just have this checked at the beginning of each year from now on when we de-winterize.
We are in the shop right now having a few warranty items taken care of. We have burned up several sets of spark plug wires this season. We had already upgraded to lifetime plug wires and were still burning them up. The dealer informed us we were driving too fast. Yeh, right. We did a little further checking on this forum and found the previous post concerning this problem and the information about the Workhorse air flow kit to correct for insufficient air flow over the spark plug wires. After we talked to the dealer they called Workhorse and were told that the air flow kit is an upgrade and not a recall or warranty item. We called Workhorse directly and they agreed to have the air flow kit installed on our PA free of charge. I really believe this is a Fleetwood design problem and not Workhorse's fault but I am grateful that they were willing to help us out.
We have also continued to have intermittent problems with running our refrigerator on gas while driving. Some trips it works fine and on others not at all and we resort to running the generator so that we can keep the refrigerator running on AC instead of gas. We have finally secured the air baffle kit from Dometic described earlier in the forum. Our dealer knew nothing about it and several calls to Dometic acknowledged the kit but said that it was for smaller refrigerators and not the side by side in the 37C. A third call to Dometic got me hooked up with someone that verified there was a baffle kit and that it would work on our refrigerator. They shipped us one that day free of charge. Hopefully this will finally fix our problem with the refrigerator.
We also replaced our house batteries after 4 full seasons. What kind of service length have you gotten on your batteries?
Our latest challenge is manifesting itself as a lighting problem. When we take our driver's side slide in and out we blow the fuse that operates the lights in the slide. The dealer is convinced that we have a pinched wire in the wiring harness for that slide. For now it is a minor inconvenience and we just pull that fuse before operating that slide but eventually other wires will probably be pinched and cause us other problems. The dealer is currently trying to get our extended warranty policy to pay for this repair. Parts and labor will be around $1500.00.
We are mothballed for the winter and are looking forward to getting back on the road again. Let us know how you are doing.
We woke up to a flat tire on our last trip of the season. Turned out to just be a loose valve stem. The road service that helped us said that it is a common problem and the eventually they will get loose. We will probably just have this checked at the beginning of each year from now on when we de-winterize.
We are in the shop right now having a few warranty items taken care of. We have burned up several sets of spark plug wires this season. We had already upgraded to lifetime plug wires and were still burning them up. The dealer informed us we were driving too fast. Yeh, right. We did a little further checking on this forum and found the previous post concerning this problem and the information about the Workhorse air flow kit to correct for insufficient air flow over the spark plug wires. After we talked to the dealer they called Workhorse and were told that the air flow kit is an upgrade and not a recall or warranty item. We called Workhorse directly and they agreed to have the air flow kit installed on our PA free of charge. I really believe this is a Fleetwood design problem and not Workhorse's fault but I am grateful that they were willing to help us out.
We have also continued to have intermittent problems with running our refrigerator on gas while driving. Some trips it works fine and on others not at all and we resort to running the generator so that we can keep the refrigerator running on AC instead of gas. We have finally secured the air baffle kit from Dometic described earlier in the forum. Our dealer knew nothing about it and several calls to Dometic acknowledged the kit but said that it was for smaller refrigerators and not the side by side in the 37C. A third call to Dometic got me hooked up with someone that verified there was a baffle kit and that it would work on our refrigerator. They shipped us one that day free of charge. Hopefully this will finally fix our problem with the refrigerator.
We also replaced our house batteries after 4 full seasons. What kind of service length have you gotten on your batteries?
Our latest challenge is manifesting itself as a lighting problem. When we take our driver's side slide in and out we blow the fuse that operates the lights in the slide. The dealer is convinced that we have a pinched wire in the wiring harness for that slide. For now it is a minor inconvenience and we just pull that fuse before operating that slide but eventually other wires will probably be pinched and cause us other problems. The dealer is currently trying to get our extended warranty policy to pay for this repair. Parts and labor will be around $1500.00.
We are mothballed for the winter and are looking forward to getting back on the road again. Let us know how you are doing.
