Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

First sub task: get out of bed

Next task: go to bed

That's about it

 

[sodamo]

Don’t forget to eat and drink BEF

 

[daugen]

well I made it, but a day that was way too long and had too many bumps.
Young guy doing the training didn't know any more than I knew, which is fine for the stuff that's the same from rv to rv.
But when I start asking the stuff I don't know:
how does the mobileye accident avoidance system work?
I don't know, that's new.
Does this come with Sirius/XM?
I don't know, it should
How do you get to the nav part of the radio?
I can't find it.

At that point I found my salesperson, gently said the trainer wasn't helpful to me because he understood none of the electronics,
which is what a young person is supposed to know, right?...
So it turns out there is no navigation in the rv at all. Wrong radio allegedly installed at factory. Thankfully they had the right one in stock.
Now it's noon, I was supposed to be gone by then, owner not happy, gives me keys to loaner and 20 bucks and said please go have lunch on us.
Nice ride in a tiny beater Fiesta with 103k miles on it and a hole in the muffler. This was not a Lexus moment...
So thankfully the new radio works, and the trainer has zero idea what the icons do, quote from the owner "this stuff just all changed and it's all new
to us". Well, maybe that's true and maybe they need to do a better job of training the trainer.

I admit my humor was fouled from the very beginning when I popped the hood to the engine compartment and was a bit ticked off to find half an inch of grime over everything, must have driven here from Indiana in a rain storm, and two large piles of squirrel nuts stacked up around the hood latches. Clearly no one in the dealership had ever opened the hood. I looked at the trainer and just shook my head and quietly said this should not be. And left it at that. And it was still dirty when I drove out of there.
It will be cleaned tomorrow.

these were really nice people at D&H RV in Apex NC. But nice doesn't cut it enough if your business practices are sloppy.
I kept waiting to be impressed, and sure wasn't.

Ok, that's done, off my chest. Ride home was fine, very maneuverable, but much, much noiser than I thought. Lots of wind and tire noise.
Part may be due to my tinnitus, but I bet it quiets down a bunch when the new Michelins go on, oem tires are awful.
Engine had plenty of power, just had to ride the torque wave, picked up speed nicely. I drove between 65 and 70 on mostly 70mph roads, you could tell the faster you went the more you had to really keep your foot in it. Cruise control worked nicely, just wish Germans would not put it on a separate stalk that's close to turn signal.

oh, when I got it home the auto leveling system seemed to work, but error coded saying excess slope, which is absurd, look at the picture, maybe one degree, and it picked the front tires an inch totally off the ground and the rears over two inches off the ground. So I will fiddle with that tomorrow. Doesn't seem very stable perched up on those stork legs.
Outside looks nice, the plastic finish was well done.

time for dinner and an early bed. Will be less grumpy tomorrow.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good you got'er done, Drew, but your experience reinforces the belief that customer service is a dying art in this country.

Curious to see if you have some new dents in your asphalt in the morning.

Nice pic; now we know what to look for when you roll by on your upcoming adventure!:thumbsup:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I could use a recommendation for a preemergent herbicide.

Do granules last longer than liquid sprays?

When I used one called Barrier last winter, it did a good job of killing the weeds, but it didn't last six weeks. What came back were broad leaf weeds, none of the grasses reappeared. Not what I was expecting...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Don’t forget to eat and drink BEF

Sorry, I'm in bed...

3rd row potatoes only 1/2 a bucket. These and final row were the store bought seed potatoes, the good rows were my leftovers from last year.

 

[DABSGT]

Jay I can remember as a young boy my grandfather sitting in his 62 Dodge parked in the driveway because that was the only way he could listen to the Sunday Red Sox game. Being a big fan or the Sox he took my brothers and I to a Yankee Red Sox game at Yankee stadium on bat day. Needless to say after coming home with a Mickey Mantle bat I have been a Yankee fan since.
Randy good to hear your being discharged as your determination has you ahead of schedule. But remember to still pace yourself.
BEF don't over work your farmers wife, or she will want to climb on your tractor and have you do the laundry.
LS I have a cousin who 40 years ago followed his dreams headed west to be a cowboy did some rodeo roping and ended up needing new knees. Long story short he kept putting it off and just finally had the first one done he hasn't completed PT for that one and he is driving his Dr crazy to get the second one done because the new one feels so much better.
Drew sounds like you had a long day but the RV is looking good in your driveway. I bet your driver this morning enjoyed the muffin.

 

[daugen]

Curious to see if you have some new dents in your asphalt in the morning.

Me too. Went out and retracted them, thankfully no dents at all, but put some
plastic mats under them anyway, made for rv's
Service mgr left a message for me, thinks system has to be "zeroed out" like resetting a scale
I assume.
Which begs the question as to why they didn't zero it out before they sold it to me. One more system they didn't check over like
they promised.
I'll be on the phone with them tomorrow morning and they said they would talk me through it. Control Alt Delete

Your concerns over the pavement are very real to me. With my first motorhome,
I put two nice dimples in my closest friend's freshly paved driveway, both of us remembered too late to put
the protectors down. Of course his pavement was a couple months old and mine is four years old,
but on a hot day, for sure it must soften.
I appreciate the reminder.

 

[daugen]

I bet your driver this morning enjoyed the muffin.
she did! and sent me a thank you email for the tupperware container of the marvelous
orangey muffins. Nice to eat a muffin where the residual is not sugary sweetness
but a tart orange flavor
I'm thankful she got my car back in one piece...

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Congrats on the RV Drew, looks really nice, love the color scheme! Sorry that the customer service wasn't up to par.