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Re: Build Year and miles on your chassis
1998 Country Coach Magna #5489 40 Ft Single slide Gillig chassis Detroit Diesel Series 40 8.7L 330 hp Allison 3060 Trans 83K Miles Plan to keep and drive for forseeable future. After a number of issues, this is a well built, reliable and comfortable coach. Regards, Bob390Views0likes0CommentsRe: Breakdown Information
Burned up coach wiring after having inverter/charger replaced with a Xantrex RS3000. After installation, I was driving from Lewisville to Richardson, Texas in mid December 2005. Generator was on. Smelled burning wiring. Shut off gen and all electrical power and limped into storage facility. Disconnected batteries and all electrical and called Xantrex the following Monday. This was my second RS3000 in three months. The first had continual faults that Xantrex finally admitted were due to bad software. Xantrex finally agreed to replace the first unit with another one which had even worse problems than the first unit. They would not pay anything significant for repair to my coach even though Buddy Gregg, their service rep, agreed that the inverter had caused the problem. Overall it cost me about $6000 dollars and seven months of lost coach use to get the problem resolved. What a nightmare! 1998 CC Magna Xantrex RS3000 inverter (POS!) Replaced with an Prosine 3.0 (has worked for two weeks??) 36K miles555Views0likes0CommentsRe: First Time Buyer...Updated 03/06/2006
I just purchased a used MH and one source that I found to be very informative is the RV Consumer Group. They do a "consumer report" type of rating for all types of vehicles. I used them along with the outstanding info from this web site and other sources to help with my decision. Good luck!468Views0likes0CommentsRe: Breakdown Information
RV particulars: 1998 Country Coach Magna Fanfare 40' Driveline (Engine, Transmission): 330 hp Detroit Diesel 40 Allison 3060 Miles: 33800 Year: 1998 Break Down Description: Purchased coach from PPL in Houston as consignment vehicle. During initial trip to Dallas, experienced engine missing with blue smoke and loss of power after driving 200 miles. Symptoms: Engine missing with loss of power and lots of blue smoke from exhaust. Effect: Road service found fuel filter problem due to water in fuel (coach has no water/fuel separator). Cause: Coach had not been used for some time and water condensed in fuel tank. My inexperience (my first RV) and PPL's lack of forethought caused the problem. Outcome: Delayed four hours, cost $300 for service call, caused a lot of second thoughts about purchase. After having unit serviced and taking short trips, life is much better.488Views0likes0Comments
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