August 27th - More RV Repairs

Marge is still in the shop in Union, Missouri. (It has been two weeks plus.)  Unfortunately it was not just a matter of adjusting the slides. They have been adjusted twice before. They determined that the I-beams the slides go in on were flexing with the weight and needed to have pieces welded on to correct the problem. It is a $1,500.00 job and they don't guarantee it will solve the problem but they think it will. It has to help. What choice do we have anyway? We can't have the slideouts eating into the side of the camper.  They are waiting for a new seal to come in. We should get it back by the end of the week. They could not get the new AC unit compressor to act up, which I figured would be the case, so it is not fixed. Hopefully it will continue to operate.

I took Bart (our HHR towed vehicle) in to get an oil change and tires rotated yesterday. That all went well but in rotating the tires they found that one of the rear coil springs had broken. Very unusual on a passenger car. This had to happen since last year when I had new shocks put on. The repair was $190.00 parts and labor. Got him back today.

We took Kelly's Acura to St. Louis for the second time yesterday to get the windshield replaced due to a crack. The first time they had the wrong windshield. This time after four hours they determined that they could not get the front camera recalibrated through the aftermarket windshield. They sent us home and will contact the insurance company to see if they will pay for an OEM windshield. It will then have to be ordered and we will have to make another trip to St. Louis once it arrives to get it installed. If the insurance company will not pay for an OEM windshield, we will have to pay the difference. We already have a $100.00 deductible. All this new fangled stuff is a pain in the butt.

Last week I replaced some floor tiles in the entry and Kitchen area of Homer which had yellowed for some reason and looked terrible. Here is a picture of one of the tiles I took out. There were about twenty tiles like this. I'm hoping it was just a bad batch of tiles and that the replacements will not do the same.

Here is a picture of the work in progress. These are peel and stick tiles and fortunately they came up fairly easily.

Here is a picture of the finished floor. Hopefully the new tiles will not yellow. If they do I will take all the tile up and put something else back down. Doing this will be a several day project because the dinette, couch, and toilet all have to be taken out and there is a lot of cutting and fitting from front to back which slows the project down.

Homer is scheduled in next week for an oil change, inspection, and the front rotors resurfaced or replaced, as well as the front brake pads. The front brakes have gotten a little hot on a couple of occasions over the last four years.

Once we get Homer back I will schedule the truck in for a front end alignment and oil change after the Newfoundland-Labrador trip. Hopefully that will be the end of our vehicle issues for quite a while.