Nwatkins176
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Okay, Hello everybody.
I picked up my new to me Class A Diesel 2005 Daman Tuscany in Houston this past week. I have owned a smaller toy hauler in the past, but man this is much more complicated. I bought it to full time in, because I hate paying rent in NYC, so I am in a camp ground in Jersery.
My trip from Houston to NJ was not uneventfull. I picked up the coach and closed on it on Wednesday Jan 23. I had a tankless water heater put in, but didn't realize that the new door would be white, on my beautifully painted RV. No big deal, I filled up the tanks and started driving back East. I stopped for a night near Sulphur, LA because I wanted to buy car hauler, because new ones in LA are the same price as used stuff in the North East. I woke up at the truck stop about 20 miles from the Trailer dealer and drove to the trailer dealer.
Trip Downer #1
I got out at the trailer dealer and noticed I took a right turn too sharp somewhere and damage about 10 feet of storage doors near and across the right rear wheel. Well now I guess I have to find a body shop. Urg. That is so embarassing, I had a 34 toyhauler and Dodge 2500 in the past and never drug it on something turning right. :-[
I never heard or felt the impact, so I am not sure what I hit. It was 2 feet high and green.
Thursday, I made to just outside of Knoxville TN and grab a night of sleep at a Walmart. When I went to put out the bedroom slide, it moved a couple of inches, stopped and then opened up fully. Got back on the road on Friday and was greeted with a freezing rain storm. I was getting Ice 1/4 inch all over the front of the coach. I spent a lot of time living in CO, so I am decent about driving in crappy conditions, but nothing this large. So I stopped and read the manual about the Alison Transmission, and learned how to drive that transmission in bad conditions. I was really surprised at how well the coach did in ice and later snow in VA. I think because of the weight the coach doesn't seem to mind the bad conditions. I just kept it slow, used the gears an turned off the jake brake. I expected to make it all the way to my campground on Friday, but with the weather, I only made it outside of DC.
During the trip I filled up a couple times and I was making about 8.5 MPG!. I can't complain about that, not with that big diesel and a 41' coach and 1500 pound empty car hauler.
I stopped and spend the night at a rest stop. I used the automatic leveling jacks.
I started driving my last 200 miles on Saturday the (25) The jacks did the best they could but the spot at the rest stop was but the rest stop was pretty cambered. When I left in the morning, the jacks came up, but i was getting warnings as I was driving. It seems as I slowed down the waring would start beeping at me telling a jack was down and they were not. If I was at highway speeds I got no such warning. I stopped a few times, once I crawled under neath the coach and knocked off all the ice I could from around the jacks, but I was still getting that warning. Basically out of now where the jack panel will start beeping at me, but the jacks are all the way up each time I stopped to look. I am thinking, it has something to do with the Ice and crap I was driving through.
Question #2
I need your opinion on what is causing this annoying alarm. Think it is the ice and stuff stuck underneath or do I have another problem?
When I was driving I was getting a low voltage warning. I was able to see the volts of the battery and when the coach was under low strain or idle the batter would charge up to 12.5 volts or past 13 volts while stopped and idling. Under strain the battery would drop to as low 11.1 volts which set the alarm off.
Question #2
Hopefully this is a battery issue and not a charging system issue. The chassis battery is sealed, so it is not water. Opinions would be nice on this one. When I get time I plan on taking the battery to have it tested.
With about 100 miles left of my trip I stopped to try and mess with my jacks again and noticed the rear outside dually tire was flat. At this point i just wanted to get where I was going, so I just drove the last hundred miles on just the inside dually. I felt no difference on the way the coach handled, so I am wondering how long it has been flat. Did I flatten it out when I ran over what ever caused the damage two days ago? I doubt it, but it could have so I might have the insurance adjuster look at that possibility.
Okay sorry this is so long.
I got to Jersey and my coach looked terrible so I took it a RV wash and those guys did they best they could. It was still freezing outside, probably about 25 degrees. I finally made to my spot yesterday Jan 26 and started to set up camp, and I can't get the slides open. The living room slide opens about 6 inches on the bottom and only about 3 on the top and it gets stuck. The bedroom slide opens about 3 inches and stops, but at least it is even.
Bunch of questions here..
Think these are stuck because of the all the ice and crap I was driving in, or from the water at the truck wash and possibly my awnings are frozen? It will be about 50 degrees in a couple of days, should I wait to take it to the shop until the warmer weather happens and try then? How do I lube the slide with them closed? Can anything else be wrong with it? I know they are electric, I am hooked up to shore power, but can my house batteries still be too weak to open them? When I try the lights go dim a bit. I have not checked the water in the house batteries yet.
Thank you in advance for the help with these issues.
I picked up my new to me Class A Diesel 2005 Daman Tuscany in Houston this past week. I have owned a smaller toy hauler in the past, but man this is much more complicated. I bought it to full time in, because I hate paying rent in NYC, so I am in a camp ground in Jersery.
My trip from Houston to NJ was not uneventfull. I picked up the coach and closed on it on Wednesday Jan 23. I had a tankless water heater put in, but didn't realize that the new door would be white, on my beautifully painted RV. No big deal, I filled up the tanks and started driving back East. I stopped for a night near Sulphur, LA because I wanted to buy car hauler, because new ones in LA are the same price as used stuff in the North East. I woke up at the truck stop about 20 miles from the Trailer dealer and drove to the trailer dealer.
Trip Downer #1
I got out at the trailer dealer and noticed I took a right turn too sharp somewhere and damage about 10 feet of storage doors near and across the right rear wheel. Well now I guess I have to find a body shop. Urg. That is so embarassing, I had a 34 toyhauler and Dodge 2500 in the past and never drug it on something turning right. :-[
I never heard or felt the impact, so I am not sure what I hit. It was 2 feet high and green.
Thursday, I made to just outside of Knoxville TN and grab a night of sleep at a Walmart. When I went to put out the bedroom slide, it moved a couple of inches, stopped and then opened up fully. Got back on the road on Friday and was greeted with a freezing rain storm. I was getting Ice 1/4 inch all over the front of the coach. I spent a lot of time living in CO, so I am decent about driving in crappy conditions, but nothing this large. So I stopped and read the manual about the Alison Transmission, and learned how to drive that transmission in bad conditions. I was really surprised at how well the coach did in ice and later snow in VA. I think because of the weight the coach doesn't seem to mind the bad conditions. I just kept it slow, used the gears an turned off the jake brake. I expected to make it all the way to my campground on Friday, but with the weather, I only made it outside of DC.
During the trip I filled up a couple times and I was making about 8.5 MPG!. I can't complain about that, not with that big diesel and a 41' coach and 1500 pound empty car hauler.
I stopped and spend the night at a rest stop. I used the automatic leveling jacks.
I started driving my last 200 miles on Saturday the (25) The jacks did the best they could but the spot at the rest stop was but the rest stop was pretty cambered. When I left in the morning, the jacks came up, but i was getting warnings as I was driving. It seems as I slowed down the waring would start beeping at me telling a jack was down and they were not. If I was at highway speeds I got no such warning. I stopped a few times, once I crawled under neath the coach and knocked off all the ice I could from around the jacks, but I was still getting that warning. Basically out of now where the jack panel will start beeping at me, but the jacks are all the way up each time I stopped to look. I am thinking, it has something to do with the Ice and crap I was driving through.
Question #2
I need your opinion on what is causing this annoying alarm. Think it is the ice and stuff stuck underneath or do I have another problem?
When I was driving I was getting a low voltage warning. I was able to see the volts of the battery and when the coach was under low strain or idle the batter would charge up to 12.5 volts or past 13 volts while stopped and idling. Under strain the battery would drop to as low 11.1 volts which set the alarm off.
Question #2
Hopefully this is a battery issue and not a charging system issue. The chassis battery is sealed, so it is not water. Opinions would be nice on this one. When I get time I plan on taking the battery to have it tested.
With about 100 miles left of my trip I stopped to try and mess with my jacks again and noticed the rear outside dually tire was flat. At this point i just wanted to get where I was going, so I just drove the last hundred miles on just the inside dually. I felt no difference on the way the coach handled, so I am wondering how long it has been flat. Did I flatten it out when I ran over what ever caused the damage two days ago? I doubt it, but it could have so I might have the insurance adjuster look at that possibility.
Okay sorry this is so long.
I got to Jersey and my coach looked terrible so I took it a RV wash and those guys did they best they could. It was still freezing outside, probably about 25 degrees. I finally made to my spot yesterday Jan 26 and started to set up camp, and I can't get the slides open. The living room slide opens about 6 inches on the bottom and only about 3 on the top and it gets stuck. The bedroom slide opens about 3 inches and stops, but at least it is even.
Bunch of questions here..
Think these are stuck because of the all the ice and crap I was driving in, or from the water at the truck wash and possibly my awnings are frozen? It will be about 50 degrees in a couple of days, should I wait to take it to the shop until the warmer weather happens and try then? How do I lube the slide with them closed? Can anything else be wrong with it? I know they are electric, I am hooked up to shore power, but can my house batteries still be too weak to open them? When I try the lights go dim a bit. I have not checked the water in the house batteries yet.
Thank you in advance for the help with these issues.