LTWinnebago
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- Feb 8, 2018
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Took delivery of our new Winnebago Sunstar in Feb 2018, on leaving the dealer, 15 miles down the road the Jack Alarms went off, scared the bejesus out of me, pulled over, jacks all up. Called the dealer, made an appointment to check, they said they ran them up and down 6 or 7 times and had no problems. I marked the fluid levels on the reservoir for both UP and DOWN conditions with a sharpie to be sure I wasn't loosing fluid.
When I got back to the resort, I ran them up and down 4 more times (as recommended to remove air bubbles in the lines, that may be the problem), leaving the resort to our next waypoint, alarms went off every time I hit a bump, it got crazy. Stopped the first few times, jacks all up, fluid levels at previous marks. Alarm would just go on and stop after 20 seconds or so.
At our next stop, I found a dealer, set up an appointment, they checked the jack operations, test drove, simple determination that the fluid level was about an inch low! They topped up the fluid, ran the jacks, test drove and turned the coach back to me. Everything was covered under our Winnebago warranty. Driving back to our park, we hit hundreds of road bumps, no alarms, perfect.
Amazing that fluid levels were missed by the purchasing dealer after we reported a problem. Wonder why we get skeptical over their abilities.
When I got back to the resort, I ran them up and down 4 more times (as recommended to remove air bubbles in the lines, that may be the problem), leaving the resort to our next waypoint, alarms went off every time I hit a bump, it got crazy. Stopped the first few times, jacks all up, fluid levels at previous marks. Alarm would just go on and stop after 20 seconds or so.
At our next stop, I found a dealer, set up an appointment, they checked the jack operations, test drove, simple determination that the fluid level was about an inch low! They topped up the fluid, ran the jacks, test drove and turned the coach back to me. Everything was covered under our Winnebago warranty. Driving back to our park, we hit hundreds of road bumps, no alarms, perfect.
Amazing that fluid levels were missed by the purchasing dealer after we reported a problem. Wonder why we get skeptical over their abilities.