Love Hate relationship
Who else out there feels like me? I love my class A motorhome, but I hate the fact that it is so expensive to upkeep...tires, oil changes, gas, just to name a few. We had to put in a new starter and i...
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GrandmaLee wrote:timmac wrote:
$1400.00 for a starter, is that what a diesel starter cost, or is that a gas motorhome in your profile, if its a gas motor than you were ripped at the repair shop..
Learn to do a lot of your own repairs and the cost will be cut in half for upkeep, maybe more..
Yes, she is a gasser...the starter actually only cost $300.00...but the repair shop "claimed" it was extremely labor intensive. And they had to troubleshoot because at first they did not know what was wrong. I just about wanted to jump out of a window...and it's not about whether we could afford it or not...we could have put that type of money to better use if we had to spend like that.
Than do yourself a favor and don't go back to that repair shop, starters are not labor intensive on most gas motors, and if the troubleshoot could not figure out a bad starter after 30 minutes than he is not a good mechanic, I have 5 vans on the road 5 days a week here in Vegas and when something breaks I usually know what the problem is before taking in for service.
