Time for some maintenance...
My 2012 Nexus Phantom 23P {24'} which I have owned for 7.5 years and 60,000+ miles is due for a number of basic services:
Full synthetic Oil change
Full synthetic transmission flush
Full synthetic differential flush,
Coolant flush
Fuel injection service
AGM chassis battery
Air filter
I called a couple of the large RV Chains, Camping World, La Mesa RV, Lazy days etc and got some pretty consistent quotes from all of them. The bottom line averaged right at $2,000... seriously! :S
I live about 70 miles up the mountain from Phoenix in Payson and all of them of course wanted me to drop it off with the services taking a day or so. Most are booked up, CW said their next available appointment was 8 weeks out the others were all 2 weeks to a month.
Fortunately I recently found a great independent RV mechanic who is happy to come to my house for most RV repairs, he recently replaced the original water heater and tracked down a short in one of my brake lights working in my driveway. For all of the services enumerated above I dropped the rig off at his shop about 5 miles down the road. Not only is he a great RV technician he is also an ASE certified Mechanic.
Arizona can be a pretty harsh environment for RV's particularly in the summer so making sure everything was good to go was a priority. When I dropped it off I asked him to thoroughly go through it and if he found anything that he would do for his own coach to plan on doing it to mine. Yep, pretty much handed him a blank check. He is a tad bit busy up here as you would imagine but being in no hurry I told him a week would be fine.
He called this morning, a day early and said I could come pick it up. Said he checked it out thoroughly and other than the above punch list could not find anything else the coach needed but we agreed that replacing the plugs around 75K miles would probably be worth doing.
The bill came to $1,119.35... :B
Thousands of RV's pass through Payson every week bound for the White Mountains, Flagstaff and beyond so thought I would share this gem of a resource. Can Do Automotive & RV service and Repair, call Carl at 928 951-3500.
You're welcome!
:B :B :B
Full synthetic Oil change
Full synthetic transmission flush
Full synthetic differential flush,
Coolant flush
Fuel injection service
AGM chassis battery
Air filter
I called a couple of the large RV Chains, Camping World, La Mesa RV, Lazy days etc and got some pretty consistent quotes from all of them. The bottom line averaged right at $2,000... seriously! :S
I live about 70 miles up the mountain from Phoenix in Payson and all of them of course wanted me to drop it off with the services taking a day or so. Most are booked up, CW said their next available appointment was 8 weeks out the others were all 2 weeks to a month.
Fortunately I recently found a great independent RV mechanic who is happy to come to my house for most RV repairs, he recently replaced the original water heater and tracked down a short in one of my brake lights working in my driveway. For all of the services enumerated above I dropped the rig off at his shop about 5 miles down the road. Not only is he a great RV technician he is also an ASE certified Mechanic.
Arizona can be a pretty harsh environment for RV's particularly in the summer so making sure everything was good to go was a priority. When I dropped it off I asked him to thoroughly go through it and if he found anything that he would do for his own coach to plan on doing it to mine. Yep, pretty much handed him a blank check. He is a tad bit busy up here as you would imagine but being in no hurry I told him a week would be fine.
He called this morning, a day early and said I could come pick it up. Said he checked it out thoroughly and other than the above punch list could not find anything else the coach needed but we agreed that replacing the plugs around 75K miles would probably be worth doing.
The bill came to $1,119.35... :B
Thousands of RV's pass through Payson every week bound for the White Mountains, Flagstaff and beyond so thought I would share this gem of a resource. Can Do Automotive & RV service and Repair, call Carl at 928 951-3500.
You're welcome!
:B :B :B
