Adirondack Will
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- May 30, 2015
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Well, traded in our 2011 Shamrock for a 2015 Starcraft Launch 24 RLS at Camping world in Mesa. Drove 420 miles each way from the mtns of NM because they had what I wanted. We tested everything at home; loaded it up with our gear, ourselves and our 3 large dogs and our beautiful cat and departed for our 10th annual trip to our summer cabin on Lake Champlain (2400--2500 miles each way).
Let's see:I had to install a TV 'cause "the deal did not include a TV when I got there"; I was going to keep my sewer line but they told me not to bother: they had put one in the bumper for me. They had: it was the shortest I ever saw and had a leak! Mine was a 20' in perfect shape. I am now out $60 but have a good one.
Here is the worst (so far). The slide out worked perfectly at the dealer and at home but the first night (of 5 planned) on our trip east, the slide would not open. I took it to a dealer in Oklahoma. His two best mechanics worked for 90 minutes on a job they thought would take 15 minutes or less. They diagnosed that the slide controller had lost synch with one of the motors. They said all they had to do was find the controller and reset it, then run the slide in and out a few times to synch it. Trouble is that after 90 minutes of taking the trailer apart, neither they nor I could find the controller. We called Starcraft: no joy there. It turned out that all the assemblers are"on vacation" and nobody else knows where the controller would be.
So we are living in extremely tight quarters on this trip. Do any of you know this travel trailer and where the controller for the slide mechanism is?
thanks in advance!
Will
Let's see:I had to install a TV 'cause "the deal did not include a TV when I got there"; I was going to keep my sewer line but they told me not to bother: they had put one in the bumper for me. They had: it was the shortest I ever saw and had a leak! Mine was a 20' in perfect shape. I am now out $60 but have a good one.
Here is the worst (so far). The slide out worked perfectly at the dealer and at home but the first night (of 5 planned) on our trip east, the slide would not open. I took it to a dealer in Oklahoma. His two best mechanics worked for 90 minutes on a job they thought would take 15 minutes or less. They diagnosed that the slide controller had lost synch with one of the motors. They said all they had to do was find the controller and reset it, then run the slide in and out a few times to synch it. Trouble is that after 90 minutes of taking the trailer apart, neither they nor I could find the controller. We called Starcraft: no joy there. It turned out that all the assemblers are"on vacation" and nobody else knows where the controller would be.
So we are living in extremely tight quarters on this trip. Do any of you know this travel trailer and where the controller for the slide mechanism is?
thanks in advance!
Will