Warranty Work at Dealer
This post isn't meant to bash any brands or dealers. Just wondering if others have experienced substandard service at their dealers. Been RVing for abour 20 year and owned several trailers, both 5th W...
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Ka Ron wrote:
Well, it might be standard.
We developed a small in the piping behind the shower in our motor home and took it to a dealer (which I won't name) to be repaired.
They in their wisdom decided without telling me that they would replace all the plumbing lines and started cutting the main lines from the back of the coach to all the fixtures.
When I found out they said because their was a leak that all the lines were probably no good and should be replaced.
As I worked for a plumbing company at the time, I took the motor home out of the dealership and into our shop and had one of our plumbers replace all the lines.
He told me that they did not all need replacing, but the dealer should have repaired the leak, pressurized the system and then done more repairs if necessary.
So this particular dealer took a relatively simple job and turned it into a nightmare.
Don't know, but I will never trust another dealer to make any repairs without getting at least two opinions from now on.
Let me start by saying I have been a Master Plumber for a couple decades. Your dealer may have been 100% correct in stating that the entire system should be replaced...if he was talking about the potable water supply system and if it is PEX. Your dealer may have checked the crimp rings for proper compression with a crimp tester. If the crimping tool used for your system was out of calibration, all of the crimps would be bad and subject to failure. You can't just re-crimp an already-crimped ring -- it must be replaced.
Are you talking about your PEX system? If you are, you better keep your eye on it now.
Bruce
