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RonVBT
Feb 22, 2014Explorer
I had this failure last night while driving my MH home from dealer minutes after purchasing it. I noticed my backup camera cycling on and off and my ABS brake light flashing on momentarily. I pulled over to the slow lane and moments later had complete power failure! The engine quit and no power to the instrument cluster. I was able to get the rig off the road (I was on I-80 during rush hour traffic going through Sacramento, Ca. at the time. I still had Coach power but the emergency battery switch did nothing to energize the Chassis. Is it possible that Thor uses Chassis battery to energize the Emergency solenoid? It seems like they would use the Coach battery to do that. Anyway, Camping World sent two techs right out (I wasn't far from the dealership) and they were very apologetic. They were able to re-wire the BCC going by memory to get me home but want me to bring it in for the recall fix. I have read the recall and it is pretty straight forward...just move the chassis battery wire from the rear terminal to the front terminal. it totally bypasses the chassis battery disconnect which is the way they used to do it in the old days anyway. You just want to isolate the coach and the chassis batteries while parked so as to not run down the chassis battery. I need to figure out why my emergency switch doesn't seem to work when the chassis battery is dead though. That's the whole purpose for it.
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