Re: Repairs Almost Complete

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:40:34 -0500,
  sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

 I did get the RV back a couple days ago and it looks very good. 

Excellent news!

 Still waiting to take it back for replacement of the awning
 cover once it comes in and a replacement plastic cover that
 goes around the fog light on one side that fell off on the way
 home.  They must not have had all the tabs in right and it flew
 off somewhere.

Okay, I just had to replace end covers for both ends of the awning
on our Lance 1475.  I'd knocked one end cover loose banging it
into something, and had snapped it back into place with the less
than full complement of tabs, expecting it would not last.  For
whatever reason, next time I looked the outer cover at the other
end was also gone.  Took me quite a while to find the right
replacement, but I finally got it done.

The day I put them on I hadn't thought to take my extension
ladder, so I stacked one of the ubiquitous red jack stands...

https://andersenhitches.com/product/trailer-jack-block/

...on top of a milk crate and stood on that combo to reach up to
the awning ends.  I was strecched up as far as I could reach with
my back against the trailer exterior when the stand went shooting
out from under me.  I fell pretty heavily and slammed my back
against the wall on the way down.  Knocked the wind out of me and
I saw stars.  Thought for a moment I might need an ambulance, but
I ended up with only a small scrape (from the furnace exhaust
cover, I think).  Pretty lucky.  I've since gotten a 12 ft
telescoping ladder that now resides in the pass through space.

And speaking of getting the tabs in right, I had a repair of the
liftgate on my Acadia at the dealer, and when I got it back
noticed a trim piece above the passenger rear wheel was missing. 
What a pain that was to get them to fix it.

 Today I drove it up the 60 miles to Madison to have them look
 at the cruise control not working, the mirror turn signals
 giving an error, and the dashboard warning that the drivers
 airbag is faulting.  There was a loose connector under the seat
 that when pushed in properly fixed the air bag warning. 
 Evidently both mirrors had blown bulbs and they replaced them
 both.  Guy said they might have just gotten a bad batch, which
 sounded odd to me, but we'll see if they go out again.  I
 thought there must be a short somewhere.
 
 The cruise worked for about 10 miles when I left this morning,
 then I felt it go out and a warning on the dash said "Active
 Assist Cancelled" whatever the hell that means.  I couldn't get
 it back on the rest of the drive.  Of course, when they looked
 at it it was working for them they said, but they did a
 software upgrade and it did work all the way home. Hopefully
 that is fixed cause it sucks not having that working and having
 to use the pedal.  Hard to keep it at speed.

Ugh.  For what it's worth, I've had the active (adaptive) cruise
assist on my Acadia drop out a few times.  More often than not,
it's been somehing interfering with a forward facing camera.  FOr
example, one time was driving in sleet, and when I stopped and
cleared the slush off the front it all worked fine again.

 We were supposed to get the Bronco back tomorrow, but I haven't
 heard from the shop yet.  All in all I'm pleased.  This
 unfortunate incident is almost over and we can get back to
 livin' large again!

Glad to hear it!

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Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA