Most of my day was spent doing work for the people that didn’t need me two weeks ago? Since I am still getting paid I figured it was useful for me to do this requested task and I spent much of the day getting it knocked out. In between I made it in for lunch with the wife and then spent a two hour after lunch trip to the repair shop to pick up the motor home that was supposed to be ready.
I wrote that when we came home several weeks ago that the air conditioning in the motor home was out. I had taken the motor home to the shop last Monday to get this fixed. The smartest or one of the better, if not the smartest, things I did was buy an extended warranty when we got the motor home. When it was only 2 years old it was pretty cheap to get the 7 year – 70,000 mile extension to cover just about everything. This investment has paid for itself 2 times over and it is supposed to be covered this time as well, although I have not gotten the check back yet, it was pre-approved by the insurance company before the work was started. I know, as I have read a lot of the comments that most of the after market insurance outfits are not trustworthy and are mostly in business to rip consumers off for insurance they do not need and pay too much for. At the rate this one very grudgingly paid, I will be paid up for another 5 years of extensions when this one runs out next year. I will give them a chance to recoup their expenses if they want?
When I got to the repair shop, we talked about the problem, I paid for the current repair and will turn in the information to the insurance company with the claim number they gave it and hope to have some of my money back in weeks. Well that was until I had to pull it over to get the final touches of valve stem extension put on. In the process I had the air on and it was running and …. it wasn’t getting cold air out? I thought maybe it was so damn hot out out that I was having difficulty feeling it so grabbed the digital thermometer and as it felt the air was maybe 90 degrees, a 10 degree drop is not going to cut it and that was not right?
I got the mechanics over and explained the air was not cold, sure enough they had to agree and so… back to the shop. Yes all the parts that they knew of, were replaced and put in and it was working yesterday, but today when I started to take off it was not cold air coming out. Actually it was only slightly cooler than ambient temps?
It seems that setting until today from yesterday morning, it has lost most of the Freon already. Boy that sucks! I had already hooked the Jeep up and was ready to leave and now, unhook the Jeep and they would pull it back around and re-start the search for the leak. They put pressure in and started a diligent search for the leak… It has to be somewhere but in the first two runs they had not found it. The only alternative now is to pull the the Freon out, charge it with a dye-type Freon, let it run for a few hours and start the search over again, this time with a UV light that should spot the dye leak as well as the gas detector… So I left with out the motor home.
In this set of stops before going down, I stopped to “give away” a bicycle to the bike shop for parts and to have it recycled. It had gotten too close, actually just jumped out in front of a car tire and gotten it’s front forks bent… and the cost of repair for it was more than it was worth.
I also made a couple of stops on the way back to town looking at used cars for sale, setting out in front of – repair shops? I am not real sure it is a good idea to by from a repair shop but when you are poor and looking for a cheap, economical set of wheels, you look where they are. I found a couple that will need to be double checked to see if they are worth the price? At least the air conditioning worked on one of them that I looked at, that was a plus compared to my earlier problems…
It is my hope that tomorrow goes a little better than today.