In California, your warranty is extended by 1 day for each day you can document it was at the dealership.
However I can feel for you. When my motorhome was about 9 months old, a weld broke in the front end. The dealership writer said "It will take 6 labor hours to make this repair". They asked Fleetwood to pay for it, but Fleetwood said "That sort of repair can be done in 4 hours." So basically my motorhome sat at the dealership lot for a month while they argued over the amount of money to be paid for that warranty repair. Meanwhile I was making the $600 payment on a nearly new RV I could not use. While they argued over $200, I was making another $600 payment without using it.
I also had to go to the dealership, move a water coolant filter that I had installed after taking delivery of my motorhome. I had to take off work 2 hours early, take the RV off the sales lot, remove 3 bolts and used a large tie wrap (wire tie about 1/2" wide and 1/8" thick) to hold the filter in place - yet out of the way of the repairman. Why they could not remove those 3 bolts - I have no idea.
Later that same dealership had to replace a rear axle seal under the 6 year extended warranty. During a week long trip, prior to taking it in, the brakes did have a slight oil smoking smell. After not agreeing to a $546.00 brake pad charge, the mechanic at the stealership coated the brake pad in oil, then put everything back together, WAY overtightened the lug nuts (I could not loosen them with a 24" long breakerbar, and my weight is over 225 pounds). I had to use my buddy's 3/4" drive impact gun that has over 500 foot pounds torque rating. The max torque of this lug nut is only about 150 foot pounds. I guess the mechanic felt I would take the RV right back to them once I discovered the smoking brake pads. However $55 at the local Napa store, and I had new brake pads installed in a 1/2 hour on both sides of the RV.
My feeling is the leaking seal damaged the brake pads, it should have been a covered repair. Asking 10 X the value to install the pads, that is just mark up going to the extreme. They had to install one pad anyway (the old ones or new ones) so labor was covered by the extended warranty. When my wife brought the motorhome home, she ran into the house and said "The motorhome is on fire" - there was a HUGE amount of smoke coming from the passenger side brake pads. I was able to drive it over to my buddy's house without using the brakes much (drive slow and use 1 and 2 gear to slow down, try to make all the green lights) and it did not smoke much on that trip.
Lucky for me, that was the last repair they did to the 4 year old RV, and it is now 16 years old.
Fred.
