Well after deciding to get back into the Class A life, then deciding to find an older/affordable DP instead of a gasser, my wife and I bought a 2003 Allegro Bus M-32IP on the XC chassis. The coach is a one owner rig with most all the receipts since new, with 64k miles. We are looking forward to vacationing with the family in this beast.
Maintenance I am going to address right off the bat:
- Service the air brake system. In all his receipts I don't see any indication of this occurring. The brakes/air system seem to be functioning great, and the prior owner always said that he would have freightliner do whatever scheduled maintenance is needed. I'm assuming they have been serviced at some point but since I don't know - and this is a huge safety item - I will be taking care of that before any trips.
- Service the front wheel bearings and rear axle. Easy items to take care of, and I don't see them in the receipt history. Front hub oil looks a tad on the dark side.
Issues:
- Ice maker is broken, prior owner was quoted $400 to fix, not sure I'm going to worry about it...
- Dash AC only blows cold on Max AC. This is an interesting one and I actually found an old thread on the irv2 forum where someone had the exact same problem. Likely, this is a stuck mixer door (or otherwise non-functioning door) at the heater core. The reason why max AC works is that the water is actually turned off to the core via a vacuum controlled valve, when it is on max AC. Plan here is to remove the blower so I have access to view the door and see how it responds as the temp control is moved. Hopefully the issue is obvious.
- TV upgrade needed.. Tube TV was replaced with free standing flatscreen, but not HD.. I did not even know that was possible...
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Maintenance I am going to address right off the bat:
- Service the air brake system. In all his receipts I don't see any indication of this occurring. The brakes/air system seem to be functioning great, and the prior owner always said that he would have freightliner do whatever scheduled maintenance is needed. I'm assuming they have been serviced at some point but since I don't know - and this is a huge safety item - I will be taking care of that before any trips.
- Service the front wheel bearings and rear axle. Easy items to take care of, and I don't see them in the receipt history. Front hub oil looks a tad on the dark side.
Issues:
- Ice maker is broken, prior owner was quoted $400 to fix, not sure I'm going to worry about it...
- Dash AC only blows cold on Max AC. This is an interesting one and I actually found an old thread on the irv2 forum where someone had the exact same problem. Likely, this is a stuck mixer door (or otherwise non-functioning door) at the heater core. The reason why max AC works is that the water is actually turned off to the core via a vacuum controlled valve, when it is on max AC. Plan here is to remove the blower so I have access to view the door and see how it responds as the temp control is moved. Hopefully the issue is obvious.
- TV upgrade needed.. Tube TV was replaced with free standing flatscreen, but not HD.. I did not even know that was possible...
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Our 40' Bus looks the same as yours. The ice-maker quit working on ours too. Since we drink bottled water and don't trust our fresh water tank or rv park water to always be bacteria free, we decided to take out the ice-maker. It gives us more room in the freezer. We just buy a bag of ice every couple of weeks and use the original ice bin to keep it in. Just a thought.
