roof air failures
In just the last 3 months 7 of my friends have their roof air units fail. 4 of the RV's were new. Has there been a design change? Have any of you seen a similar situation? Seems weird to me.
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Hikerdogs wrote:
As someone who has had an AC fail I can also say GOOD LUCK getting anyone to repair it. We have a 2013 Winnebago Adventurer with 2 RVP roof air conditioners. They have less than 50 hours total runtime, and probably less than 5 hours runtime in the heat mode. The front AC will no longer switch to the heat mode. It has either a bad switching valve solenoid or a bad switching valve.
We took it in to the factory service center in Forest City IA and the only the only repair they would do is replace the entire unit for $1,600.00. We declined the repair and contacted our local authorized RVP facility to see if they would be able to repair the unit. They gave us the same answer.
The next step was to contact RVP to see who would be able to repair the unit. Again we got an almost identical answer. The only difference being that if in fact it was the solenoid it could be replaced for around $30.00. If it was the valve itself they recommended replacing the entire unit.
The justification all around was that replacing the valve would be more expense than the unit was worth. The valve itself costs about $200.00. The estimated labor to replace it would bring the price close to half the price of a new unit.
It's hard for me to believe it would cost $600.00 in labor and materials to replace a switching valve. It's even more difficult to believe that no one saw anything out of the ordinary with an air conditioner only having a 50 hour service life.
reversing valves are like 90$ so even if it cost 600$ to replace
plus Freon $750 is a lot lot less money than 1600.00
but then again if u look around a 15000BTU Brisk air roof units are only $480 + install (easy)
