Paying for someone elses Sins / Buying used
So we went on a camping trip in the new to us 5th wheel this last weekend and were at the dump station I pulled the valve, dumped black tank, then gray tank, and then tried to shut the black tank valv...
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This sure is a cool thread about TP.
As for the moral of the thread, I have bought a few mildly used units. I got lucky most of the time. I did get burnt once, and I should have been more observant. We bought a demo model Jayco, had been "used twice" and frankly, it looked it. Even the toilet was still factory wrapped. Anyhow, we head out on our annual 1 week Memorial Day run, and I didn't bother de-winterizing at the house. We get all set up, 200 miles from the house on the Kenai Peninsula, and I hit the water pump switch. This thing leaked from 8 different places where the piping had split over the long Alaska winter.
I spent the entire trip running back and forth to a hardware store that stocked PEX piping, and fixing that damned thing.
The dealer promised it had been winterized. We fought about it for a week, they said we should have brought it back to them when we found the leaks.
Lesson learned.
As for the moral of the thread, I have bought a few mildly used units. I got lucky most of the time. I did get burnt once, and I should have been more observant. We bought a demo model Jayco, had been "used twice" and frankly, it looked it. Even the toilet was still factory wrapped. Anyhow, we head out on our annual 1 week Memorial Day run, and I didn't bother de-winterizing at the house. We get all set up, 200 miles from the house on the Kenai Peninsula, and I hit the water pump switch. This thing leaked from 8 different places where the piping had split over the long Alaska winter.
I spent the entire trip running back and forth to a hardware store that stocked PEX piping, and fixing that damned thing.
The dealer promised it had been winterized. We fought about it for a week, they said we should have brought it back to them when we found the leaks.
Lesson learned.
