rockhillmanor wrote:
tvfrfireman wrote:
rockhillmanor wrote:
These gauges DO work. It's a matter of how well you clean and maintain your tanks. People seem to think they don't have to put any effort into a black and gray tank other than pulling a lever to dump it!
Use plenty of water in the black tank when flushing. Not enough water and everything WILL stick to the sensors. After EVERY dump fill black tank with water and dump again. Then open gray and dump.
Gray tanks - this is not your home kitchen sink that goes out to a sewer, it's a holding tank. Do NOT put food solids or grease down an RV sink. After 3 or 4 dumps pour a lemon cleaner down the sink fill with water and dump again. Or add the lemon cleaner before each dump. I've watched my friends pour bacon grease right down the drain and then wonder why their gauges don't work. :S
IMHO, JMHO before you think a 'different' brand of gauges will solve the problem, fill both your tanks with water several times and dump. Buy a bottle of Thetford Sensor Cleaner and throw that in both tanks let it sit and dump. Now fill you tanks up with water and be amazed how all the pretty colors of your gauges light up! Then 'maintain' your tanks. :C
I do maintain my tanks. I have been rving for over thirty years. Never had a problem with any of the gauges in the other five trailers. These gauges in this new rv didn't work from the get go. My question was about aftermarket holding tank gauges. One fellow said he doesn't need them and infers that I shouldn't need them. If your fuel gauge in your vehicles don't work you get them fixed. How is this any different? Why do people respond to a post if they can't answer the question?
Sorry, not a mind reader to know that your 'new' RV is not your first.
It was a suggestion/advice as to how one can get them to work to help avoid additional after market purchases.
If they didn't work when you purchased your new RV, then the repair should have been covered under your warranty.
I have had it in for tons of warranty work. I didn't just fall off the turnip truck. Our five month trip with this RV was a stressful one with almost twenty items from front hydraulics jacks dragging on the pavement at 60 mph to TV's needing total replacement, slide problems, etc.... Dealers damaging our trailer every time we took it in. I asked about sea level gauges for a reason. I am done with these repair people who just cause more damage than they fix. Lately, I have had other threads (one about our antenna that I left up and got torn off) due to being focused on the front jacks that kept coming down while trying to make it to an warranty appointment on time. Out of all the responses I got back one answer on the problem at hand, only one person tackled the question. All the other gave me tips on being how to be more aware and not do such a foolish thing. If you had an answer about sea level gauges, I would have loved to have heard it. It gets discouraging when you have spent thousands of dollars on a new trailer and have had the nightmare we have had. I just asked a simple question and wanted some help.
