Professional repairs

Picture A, Camping World.

Picture B, you.

99% chance I'm right, yes? :B

Bruce Brown wrote:
Picture A, Camping World.

Picture B, you.

99% chance I'm right, yes? :B

I agree with you
Now I wonder if there are extra points for guessing which Camping World.

Crazy, people actually pay $120/hr for that kind of work.

darsben1 wrote:

Bruce Brown wrote:
Picture A, Camping World.

Picture B, you.

99% chance I'm right, yes? :B

I agree with you
Now I wonder if there are extra points for guessing which Camping World.

Well I guess that was too easy. The was the handy work of Camping World Pooler Ga. It was the 5th time they did it, warranty work.

Mike the service manager there is a habitual liar. He claimed that they ordered the seal 5 times from the manufacture. After checking with the manufacture, they informed me that no seal was ordered for my coach EVER..

Their problem was self inflicted. It was only about a foot that needed to be repaired and they decided to pull off about 17 feet of it. Only to discover you could not easily get your hand behind it to remove the old seal. Even the manufacture told them to remove all of the old seal to the bare metal or it would fall off again. They ignored that, slapped some cheap off the shelf seal over the top and said it was fixed and the only problem was that I, "didn't like the way it looked". Their repair didn't even last a day.

I have about 10 hours and a couple of custom tool in getting this done. NO room to get my hands back there it was tedious and annoying going inch by inch.I ordered the correct part and installed it properly. Hasn't moved an inch so far. I guess they didn't want to invest 10 hours to do it right. It amazes me that they are still in business

Bonus prize you can have the old seal, barely used in like new condition. :W

Well, you got it done correctly and professionally.
You did it yourself. :)

My Camping world did a poor install of a rear sway bar. I had it tweaked by a suspension garage when having other work done. Camping World immediately refunded double the cost of the install. I am hoping they are improving. Irony is that as much as we criticize them they are booked solid and it takes a month to get an appointment. Having nationwide store devoted to our world is important. I hope we can build them up rather than destroying them. Obviously the work in the picture was not acceptable and the person (s) should be held accountable. Insist on being made whole.

It's not limited to Camping World, or even RV repairs. Sloppy work abounds all over. I needed to repair a very small leak in the trans line leading to the auxiliary cooler I had installed years ago. This required pulling the front bumper fascia.

The last time the bumper was pulled was by the dealer who replaced the AC condenser. I noticed they didn't reinstall all of the bolts, they had broken a clip holding on the grille, they didn't tighten one of the bolts holding the battery hold down and the other was missing, they left one of the bolts holding the trans cooler and the other was not tightened.....it goes on and on.

Bottom line is, these guys figure out of sight the customer will never know.

You all know what professional means someone that gets paid to do a job
where as an Expert knows what he is doing.

I think the OP is mistaken. I would NEVER call most of the people that work at a CW in Service, Professional or Experts. You get what you pay or go to. Doug

PS, THAT type seal can NEVER be reinstalled. Once the metal fingers have pulled loose like the pic, it will never lock on the metal track again.

dougrainer wrote:
I think the OP is mistaken. I would NEVER call most of the people that work at a CW in Service, Professional or Experts. You get what you pay or go to. Doug

PS, THAT type seal can NEVER be reinstalled. Once the metal fingers have pulled loose like the pic, it will never lock on the metal track again.

There is no metal fingers to lock into. It's simple flat surface held in place with 3m tape. The key is to removing ALL the old gasket, which is also the hardest part.

The 2nd problem is that they did not use the correct seal. The correct part is a triangle seal, so when the slide open all the way and drops down the triangle point is the only thing that moves. They used a bulb seal and when the slide drops down the whole seal moves and pulled loose. The 3rd problem is the correct seal actually sits on top of lip and because of the correct parts size you have no option other then install it straight and it then has support. Their roller coaster install was because of their incompetence of using the wrong part. There is no substitute for using the CORRECT parts, rather then some