passenger chair and awning switch bonkers

wackodacko · 09-09-2011, 10:39 PM

We have an 04 Itasca Horizon 40AD and the passenger power seat buttons didnt work, the seat couldnt go back and forth. we pulled out the black power cord thing underneath and tested it with a voltage meter and yes, there was power. reconnected it, and the seat started working, it would go forward..but not backwards! sometimes it goes back 1" but then, nothing again. now its stuck all the way forward and only a midget could put their legs up on the leg rest! everytime i want to move it, i have to jiggle around the black cord. is it a bad wire?

i dont know if its related or not, but the passenger side switch console, the awning extend/retract button didnt work for neither patio nor door. however, when we press the awning button from the outside (in the storange compartment, there is one) the awning works fine using that switch. so its not the awning motor thats broken. today, we tried again just for fun, and the patio button works. but the door awning works going out, but not in. its intermittent powering is driving us nuts. how do we open this passenger side console switch thing? i cant see any screws..

All the other switches in the passenger switch console works, we checked all the fuses in the box underneath driver's window, and they seem to be fine.

help....

FIRE UP · 09-10-2011, 09:54 PM

Wackodacko,
Well Sir, while somewhat in the same boat, so to speak, we're not exactly having the same problem(s). But, on our recently purchased '04 Itasca Horizon 36GD, the side console which houses all the awning, compartment lock, galley lights, porch lights, Aux battery shut down and a few other switches comes off it's mounts without too much trouble. I don't know about yours but, ours has a fire extinguisher mounting bracket screwed to that housing. If we unscrew that F/E mount screw, that whole housing is loose but won't come off.

What's needed is a "lift" of the entire switch housing up and to the front of the motor home. There's two brackets that "pinch" that housing to the inside wall of the coach by virtue weight and gravity. Lifting and pulling to the front of the coach dislodges the inside lip of the housing and those brackets.

Now, once you get it off, don't pull too much, I don't know how much extra wiring you have inside that housing but, I don't have too much so it's a kind of a pain to do any diagnosis when those bean heads at Itasca didn't give you very much extra wire so you could at least move that housing out and away some for analyzing.

We've got a total of FIVE patio awning switches of which, only one works. We've also got the "Windpro" or whatever it's called in the compartment just outside the door. The only switch that operates the patio awning is the one in the group of three, separately located, on that same housing you're trying to remove, only on the face of that housing, closer to the seat and away from the front of the coach. That "three" switch bank, houses the "power mode switch" (of which part of that rocker is lighted red), the wind speed switch, and the awing extend and retract switch. That one's the only one that actually operates the awning. All the other switches labeled AWNING are useless.

They are wired but do nothing. As for your seat problem, if I had to guess, you've simply got dirty connections or bad grounds, (basically the same thing). I had that happen with the step cover. Anyway, I hope this info helps some.
Scott