Rob&Deryl
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We started our trek to AZ this morning. We got on the road pretty early though not as quickly as we hoped. I did have to sweep the pine needles off of the slides before closing them and since I had totally shuffled the basement, putting last blocks, hoses and cables in took a bit longer.
We had a pretty aggressive plan for day one, 322 miles, and we were almost undone by it.
150 miles in, on I84 in CT, I got a dash message that DEF service was needed. Yikes! Ok, well we had planned a down day on Wednesday and already had a an appointment at a RAM dealer next Monday to correct alignment so figured we could do some calling and solve it.
At 200 miles I get a new message that says I have 150 miles till it goes into 5mph limp mode. Double yikes!!
Deryl gets on the phone calling dealers. First 3 say they are full up, sorry. One said we could drop off the truck and they could get to it on the 28th (today is the 18th) 10 days from now. Deryl called RAM corporate to see if we could get any help from them and they called a couple of dealers but apparently they have no influence. Finally, (oh, I was parked at a rest area on I84 about halfway between the Hudson & Delaware rivers) she called one in Stroudsburg PA and they said they could look at it as they always left some slack in the schedule for urgent problems. We agreed that a) we could make it to them & b) we couldnāt get there today & c) they were 4 miles from our planned stop for the night so could we bring the truck in first thing tomorrow? Yay!
We are set up at the campground now with the truck unhooked and the campground folk gave us a good drive through site they use for overnighters (there appear to be hundreds of seasonals parked here) and they reserved it for a 2nd day for us just in case.
Crossing fingers for tomorrow.
FYI, today, I91 just south of Hartford was extremely rough. Sections of I84 were also real bad along with the traffic jam backed up 10 miles due to construction on either side of Waterbury. NY didnāt get any awards for smooth roads either.
While stopped the rest area, i checked on the trailer. I found an open cabinet and all the Corelle bowls on the floor with 2 exploded into shards. Aside from some other leapers, nothing else broke.
Dinner and sleep now. For the newcomers, this is why less than 300 miles is a good goal. Hope to see you in chat Wednesday.
We had a pretty aggressive plan for day one, 322 miles, and we were almost undone by it.
150 miles in, on I84 in CT, I got a dash message that DEF service was needed. Yikes! Ok, well we had planned a down day on Wednesday and already had a an appointment at a RAM dealer next Monday to correct alignment so figured we could do some calling and solve it.
At 200 miles I get a new message that says I have 150 miles till it goes into 5mph limp mode. Double yikes!!
Deryl gets on the phone calling dealers. First 3 say they are full up, sorry. One said we could drop off the truck and they could get to it on the 28th (today is the 18th) 10 days from now. Deryl called RAM corporate to see if we could get any help from them and they called a couple of dealers but apparently they have no influence. Finally, (oh, I was parked at a rest area on I84 about halfway between the Hudson & Delaware rivers) she called one in Stroudsburg PA and they said they could look at it as they always left some slack in the schedule for urgent problems. We agreed that a) we could make it to them & b) we couldnāt get there today & c) they were 4 miles from our planned stop for the night so could we bring the truck in first thing tomorrow? Yay!
We are set up at the campground now with the truck unhooked and the campground folk gave us a good drive through site they use for overnighters (there appear to be hundreds of seasonals parked here) and they reserved it for a 2nd day for us just in case.
Crossing fingers for tomorrow.
FYI, today, I91 just south of Hartford was extremely rough. Sections of I84 were also real bad along with the traffic jam backed up 10 miles due to construction on either side of Waterbury. NY didnāt get any awards for smooth roads either.
While stopped the rest area, i checked on the trailer. I found an open cabinet and all the Corelle bowls on the floor with 2 exploded into shards. Aside from some other leapers, nothing else broke.
Dinner and sleep now. For the newcomers, this is why less than 300 miles is a good goal. Hope to see you in chat Wednesday.