Two weeks ago,, we sat around til Thursday, when we went, finally, to get our dishwasher installed. They did a great job and it looks like it was installed when the RV was manufactured. (The black dials above the door are for our stove.)
The same crew installed our new mirror which was broken off by another driver when we were having our shades adjusted.
Our Saturday appointment for buffing out our scratches (see our post from December 15, 2021) was changed to Sunday due to a request by the specialist. We had one area that needed to be repainted so that was done also. But the color was too dark, so we went back the following Tuesday for the corrective work.
While there we asked them to adjust our slide topper as two of the four were too loose. Turns out the jerk we had install new ones three years ago were sized and cut wrong. Two of them were cut on a bias instead of straight, and all of them were too small; they didn't adequately cover the slide out. We knew something was wrong with them, and every year we came to Red Bay we would have the installer adjust them, but he kept shining us. This time we did not go back to him. Wednesday our newly selected installers came out to measure our slide outs, and Friday they came and installed brand new toppers. We are very satisfied with them.
Saturday I scheduled the RV to be washed on Monday afternoon, when we were done with our appointment at Bay Diesel. They changed all the fluids and filters as part of our regular service schedule. While there we asked them to check our dash air conditioner as we never got cool air. They found a leak but couldn't repair it that day, but they squeezed us into their schedule for the next day. So we went and had our RV washed. Hand washed! A crew of 6 washed our roof and applied a protectant (the roof was really filthy from sitting under the trees at Old Cedar all summer) and the RV.
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Tuesday morning at 7am the crew came back and hand waxed the entire RV and polished the wheel rims. In the afternoon Bay Diesel repaired the a/c leak and we were back at the campground by 3:05 pm. The leak was caused by Freightliner in Oklahoma. Two years ago we went thru Oklahoma and had no air. They removed our dash, did whatever they did, and put the dash back together. We had cool air for a while but that soon ended. What they didn't do was replace a rubber gasket with a new one. That is where the leak was, and we had absolutely no freon in the system. Bay Diesel replaced the gasket and hooked it up to a machine which creates a vacuum throughout the system and we now have very cool air.
We contemplated heading toward Florida last night as we could stop overnight near Birmingham and knock over 100 miles off our trip, and we would also avoid the rain and thunderstorms that were due. In the end, we stayed in Red Bay overnight.
This morning we left at 7:37 am and traveled 371 miles to Marianna, FL, arriving at 2:50 pm. It rained until we passed Tuscaloosa, but then we had high winds for the rest of the trip.
And now dear readers, you are caught up. The next missive will be on Sunday evening. Til then!
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