Kevin, I have been unsuccessful in adding a post to the thread about our trip to Utah. I will try to summarize our motorhome experiences on that trip here. We certainly had a few issues.
1. The air system would lose about 50 pounds of pressure in 24 hours. We could generate enough pressure to release the brakes when the engine was running, but there was often insufficient pressure for the pneumatic levelling system. After the trip, the shop that did the engine rebuild found where they had caused the leak and took care of fixing it.
2. The backup camera has stopped working. This apparently happened while the motorhome was in the shop getting the engine rebuilt, but the shop denies responsibility for the malfunction. I will need to investigate and see if I can get it working again.
3. Both fantastic fans stopped working. We had a mobile repair guy out who diagnosed it as dirty connections. He cleaned the connections and that resolved the issue.
4. The Hurricane diesel-fired hydronic heating system started having some issues. We discovered that the main control board has been recalled. I think replacing that (I now have the replacement part) and doing the next scheduled maintenance will take care of the issues.
5. We had the mobile repair guy replace the shower mixing valve, which took care of the problem with our shower and now allows us to winterize the motorhome. He also repaired 3 other leaks that we had discovered in the bath and kitchen sink areas.
6. The whole-house surge protector failed. Fortunately, we were able to find a replacement locally in Utah and the mobile repair guy (a professional electrician in his day job) was able to replace it.
7. The newly replaced alternator "failed". It worked well enough to get us back to the shop in Grand Junction at the end of the trip. They have installed the third alternator this year and things still are not working correctly. They have now diagnosed it as a bad battery solenoid (allows the chassis and house batteries to be tied together under certain circumstances). Very early on I suspected this could be the issue and tried to guide them to look at it. I failed
. We are now waiting on the part so they can replace it and confirm that is the real problem.
8. After the trip, while it was in the shop getting a few items taken care of, they discovered one of the wheel seals had started leaking. They also found two coolant leaks. All of those have now been taken care of.
9. The shop had forgotten to replace the generator air filter as part of the generator service they had done. They have now taken care of this. I was lucky to spot this and only did so because they had not billed us for a generator air filter. Air filters are particularly important on diesel engines and our generator has a diesel engine.
I think we are slowly (and expensively) working our way towards having a reasonably functioning motorhome. I sure hope so, because we would really like to use it to travel this year while I still can.
This is not our first RV and I was pretty aware of the potential issues that could crop up with a used motorhome. I sure did not expect to run into so many major issues, though.
Steve