Len and Jo
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A tail of woe
Last week we were ready to leave on a one week trip camping with our daughters family on the Georgian Bay (really God's country). Packed, ready to go, top off gas tank night before we leave and the vans VCM (vehicle computer module) fails. Speedo reads 2x actual vehicle speed, then ZERO, the 2X again. When reading zero the transmission is lost and does not know what gear to be in so continually goes through all of them. You could use the van to make milk shakes. Our van is a 2000 Chev Express 2500 with 130k miles on it. Sunday I replaced the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) myself hoping that might have failed. No dice. So van spent Monday and Tuesday in dealership getting repaired. Took TWO VCM's because first replacement was defective. So Tuesday noonish we bailed on using the van. Even if it was fixed (and by 11 A.M. Tuesday it was not), I in no way wanted to drive a untested repair up to the Georgian Bay area and maybe have troubles. So........we stripped the van of the "stuff", food, and etc. that we needed for the now two day shorter trip. I cleared the cobwebs from the back of the garage to find our old tent camping "stuff" and off we went. WE DID HAVE A GREAT TIME. I was a little to two fast in grabbing our Eureka Alpine Meadows 4 person tent (roomy, only used 2-3 years back in the ice age) and grabbed our daughters tent by mistake. Hers is a Eureke two person Timberline, well made, NOT ROOMY for the two of us, used 8+ years. Felt like beached whales when getting out of the Timberline in the morning. Got better as week went on and our bodies re-learned how to stretch.
$1,600 later the van is now ready to go again, picked it up this morning, did a dance around it and said a few chants. Yes, we had problems but I am glad the VCM failed while the van sat in our driveway and NOT while parked on the Georgian Bay. The area is God's country but he/she/it did not place very many towns up there and even less dealerships and those that he/she/it did place up there are very small.
Happy Travels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: First pic of our campsite shows the little two person tent we took. Last pic is of the tent we were planning on taking but didn't. But all was well.
Last week we were ready to leave on a one week trip camping with our daughters family on the Georgian Bay (really God's country). Packed, ready to go, top off gas tank night before we leave and the vans VCM (vehicle computer module) fails. Speedo reads 2x actual vehicle speed, then ZERO, the 2X again. When reading zero the transmission is lost and does not know what gear to be in so continually goes through all of them. You could use the van to make milk shakes. Our van is a 2000 Chev Express 2500 with 130k miles on it. Sunday I replaced the VSS (vehicle speed sensor) myself hoping that might have failed. No dice. So van spent Monday and Tuesday in dealership getting repaired. Took TWO VCM's because first replacement was defective. So Tuesday noonish we bailed on using the van. Even if it was fixed (and by 11 A.M. Tuesday it was not), I in no way wanted to drive a untested repair up to the Georgian Bay area and maybe have troubles. So........we stripped the van of the "stuff", food, and etc. that we needed for the now two day shorter trip. I cleared the cobwebs from the back of the garage to find our old tent camping "stuff" and off we went. WE DID HAVE A GREAT TIME. I was a little to two fast in grabbing our Eureka Alpine Meadows 4 person tent (roomy, only used 2-3 years back in the ice age) and grabbed our daughters tent by mistake. Hers is a Eureke two person Timberline, well made, NOT ROOMY for the two of us, used 8+ years. Felt like beached whales when getting out of the Timberline in the morning. Got better as week went on and our bodies re-learned how to stretch.
$1,600 later the van is now ready to go again, picked it up this morning, did a dance around it and said a few chants. Yes, we had problems but I am glad the VCM failed while the van sat in our driveway and NOT while parked on the Georgian Bay. The area is God's country but he/she/it did not place very many towns up there and even less dealerships and those that he/she/it did place up there are very small.
Happy Travels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS: First pic of our campsite shows the little two person tent we took. Last pic is of the tent we were planning on taking but didn't. But all was well.
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