As I watch the Cubs/Mets game 1, I'll note just a few of the 2014 Dutchmen Voltage issues I had or have. I bought the RV 11 months young used. I took it into one of the Camping Worlds for the repairs.
They thought they repaired my black valve. However, they only replaced the seals on the gray valve, buggered them up and I had two leaking valves. Dutchmen had the the valves hooked up to the wrong labeled T pull. I spent 2 nasty hours during my first trip reworking the valves and cables. The cables were bent up as they were wound together threads of cable. I still had problems. Although shortened, the cables bent again. My next time down under, I made supports to better line up the 3" pipe with the tank and replaced one valve with a nicely working, single solid cable that works very smooth. Total time, 6 hours plus.
My two 80 gallon water tanks bent the bracket supports. Of course, my 1 BS year warranty was over. I cut up the bottom, emptied the tanks, jacked up the supports and doubled them with bed rails/frame. I also put in two small tank overfill lines. What a job. Again, another 6 hours plus and getting materials. I also better placed all the wires just hanging all over the place.
Attention to detail is just awful on the Voltage. This is my 4 camper/coach...lol. I still have my 98 11' Fleetwood Elkhorn and 2004 33' toy hauler Holiday Rambler Next Level. They, in my opinion, were much better made to detail. Don't get me wrong, they had issues but not like this. Trim falling off everywhere, the V on the front is crooked, the dropping garage door has locks that are crooked as well.
I just replaced about 8 rusty screws in the shower. Why they could use the SS as I did just baffles me. It didn't take much to see my forward storage walls fall loose. I reworked that area as the Dirt Devil was replaced by CW and I gained another 15% more room.
Also, almost forgot, the RV wasn't leveling right. I previous owner said he did it manually but it seemed backwards. After reading a bit, I figured out how to swap the wires and it works fine now.
AC stopped working on the first trip also. After much reading and control module swapping (none of those were even attached up in the AC as they were suppose to be), I found the phone jack type wire connecting the modules/AC units to be just stuck in the duck work on the top of coach rusted and shorted out. Cleaned them up, added a new double female jack, rerouted the wire and re-taped the whole duck work area on top, it works well now.
I done writing for the night.
Moe
