Marsha/CA
Moderator Emeritus
Well, some would call this an adventure....we call it a "long day" and frustrating. We live in Kernville about 50 miles east of Bakersfield. There are no places to have the coach worked on, so it always has to go down to B-field for routine maintenance. We're planning a trip to Alaska in a couple of weeks and wanted to try to prevent things from happening on the road, thus the preventative maintenance. It's been down at the Cat shop and the Freightliner shop for over 2 weeks. It was routine stuff at the Cat shop and a PM3 at freightliner. The fella at freightliner only works 4-10 hour days Sunday through Wednesday. Today we drove down to pick it up and take it to the local truck tire dealer to have all new shoes put on, which we ordered several weeks ago. As my husband pulled out of the freightliner location, I noticed a wire hanging down. Stopped, had the RV repair guy look and it was nothing. However as we were driving to the tire place, every time Tim put on the brakes, the coach would pull drastically to the left. It wasn't doing this before we took it in!!! <aaarrrggg> Went onto the tire dealer and while they were replacing tires, Tim called and told freightliner we were coming right back after new tires.
They had two front tires on the coach and I was just having a look around and noticed how much smaller the tires were than the ones we took off. Looked closer and found they were not the right size. They had order the wrong ones. So, off came the new front tires and back on went our original ones. It would take a week to get a new order. Another <aaarrrggg> However after we calmed down the supervisor came over and told us he was sending some down to pick up new tires and they could put them on on Friday..Ok. Not how we wanted to do it; but these big tires are hard to find.
Off we go back to freightliner. The fella who did our repairs had a look, made a couple of adjustments and off we went with no more pull. to the left. Good thing we took it right back, he's done for the week and won't be back until next Sunday AM. That would have really done us in!
Now we are settled in at Bakersfield RV, had a really nice dinner and everything is somewhat copacetic and calm for the moment.....unless the new tires don't come it.
Marsha~
They had two front tires on the coach and I was just having a look around and noticed how much smaller the tires were than the ones we took off. Looked closer and found they were not the right size. They had order the wrong ones. So, off came the new front tires and back on went our original ones. It would take a week to get a new order. Another <aaarrrggg> However after we calmed down the supervisor came over and told us he was sending some down to pick up new tires and they could put them on on Friday..Ok. Not how we wanted to do it; but these big tires are hard to find.
Off we go back to freightliner. The fella who did our repairs had a look, made a couple of adjustments and off we went with no more pull. to the left. Good thing we took it right back, he's done for the week and won't be back until next Sunday AM. That would have really done us in!
Now we are settled in at Bakersfield RV, had a really nice dinner and everything is somewhat copacetic and calm for the moment.....unless the new tires don't come it.
Marsha~
