Good Sam or Coach-Net ??
Road assistance policy is coming up and I'm wondering about Good Sam & Coach-Net insurance. Which one is the biggest bang for the buck? happy trails,
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I have Coach-Net and they provided me with pretty good roadside assistance. I was traveling 75 mph north on I-75 near Tampa, FL pulling a 40' Redwood 5th wheel when a van pulled up beside me and motioned for me to look back at my driver side trailer wheels which were smoking. I quickly pulled off at an exit that had a newly paved area behind barrels that we weaved into and stopped in a protected area. I noticed that the most rear driver's side tire looked turned out about an inch and when I raised the camper on the leveling legs, the wheel just fell off, only connected by the electrical brake wire. I contacted Coach-Net for roadside assistance and they sent out a tractor trailer/RV mechanic in about an hour and his assessment was that the wheel bearings had failed and had torn up the brake shoes and that the brake shoe assembly, bearings, brake drum all had to be replaced. The wheel rim and tire were fine. We thought we would be stranded for weeks, but he threw the broken parts in his truck and said he would be back in an hour with replacement parts. He was and he had it fixed in about an hour. All total we were down about 5 hours, but we just put out the slides, turned on the generator and air conditioner and had lunch. Considering that it could have been a major highway accident involving multiple vehicles when our tire came off and rolled down the highway hitting who knows what, we felt very fortunate that we got to the side of the road before anything drastic happened.
We tried calling an RV dealership whose sign we could see across the street but after being put on hold, referred to "the right man" in the repair department who wasn't in and never called back until we were repaired, we felt like Coach-Net was a good investment.
We have tire PSI and temperature sensors on all 10 tires of truck and trailer, and they gave no indication that the wheel was ready to fall off.
We are heading for Alaska this summer. I'm going to have the remaining 3 bearings sets checked and replaced. Only about 15,000 miles on the trailer. Why one failed is a good question, but I feel the cotter pin that holds the drum retention nut in place broke allowing the nut to unwind and the drum and attached tire to put so much pressure on the bearings until all failed. The cotter pin is the "weak link" in this system.
I now look in my rear view mirrors often.
Whistler
We tried calling an RV dealership whose sign we could see across the street but after being put on hold, referred to "the right man" in the repair department who wasn't in and never called back until we were repaired, we felt like Coach-Net was a good investment.
We have tire PSI and temperature sensors on all 10 tires of truck and trailer, and they gave no indication that the wheel was ready to fall off.
We are heading for Alaska this summer. I'm going to have the remaining 3 bearings sets checked and replaced. Only about 15,000 miles on the trailer. Why one failed is a good question, but I feel the cotter pin that holds the drum retention nut in place broke allowing the nut to unwind and the drum and attached tire to put so much pressure on the bearings until all failed. The cotter pin is the "weak link" in this system.
I now look in my rear view mirrors often.
Whistler
