New Coachmen--First Trip Impressions
Took a short trip this week in our new Coachmen 223RBS, two days at our favorite Lake Michigan campground as a shakedown cruise. The brakes, which had to be repaired by dealer techs the day we picked ...
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westend wrote:
Sounds like you found a winner with warts. I think they all have a few now-a-days. If it was me, I'd get something under that soft floor. That sounds like it maybe a problem in the future. In fact, if I had a warranty, it would be fixed like factory-right.
If you've had a tool in hand, doing the small stuff is better on you than your rig sitting in a service yard for a long time.
For the brakes: I'd throw out the crappy stock daisy chain wiring and wire them all, singly as a star layout or, like I did, to a terminal strip on the front. FWIW, I have a steel box on the front that contains the terminals. With that, I can easily find any electrical problem with an individual axle end or measure current to the brakes. I also have a P2 and it is nowhere near "maxed out". That would be dragging tires at every stop.
We took delivery last week. Rest assured I will insist the floor gets done right :B
The brakes are getting the full treatment, terminal strips and 10 AWG. I'm a firm believer in being able to stop.
With my previous trailer's brakes, if I had cranked up the P2 like it is right now, I would have had smoke rolling out of the wheel wells.
