I got my coach out of the repair shop today! It was anti-climatic though.
The tech pulled my coach up to the front door and me me as I was walking out. He said the engine stopped just as he was about to turn it off?! He was just reaching for the key and it just stopped.
I went out to the coach and looked things over. It was out of fuel. Dead empty. I brought my coach to them 6-weeks ago and it was nearly full; Nearly 135 gallons full.
He said the generator was running when he went out to the coach and asked if I had an automatic generator start (AGS) system. I said, yes, but the house batteries were turned off so it would never start. I looked at the house battery switch and it was ON.
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I have smart lithium batteries and I can see that they now have about 15 additional "cycles" on them. So the inverter was running down the batteries and the generator was charging them back up over-and-over.
I know the house power switch was off when I turned the coach over to them. Note to self:
Turn off the house battery switch and tape over the switch!. They denied any culpability, but offered 10 gallons of fuel to get me out of their parking lot. Oh, and forget about the generator fuel pickup not extending to the bottom of the fuel tank; At least in my coach that is.
It was tough getting the engine restarted that's for sure. I made a beeline straight to a truck stop to fuel up.
Oh, and about my reconditioned steering: eh. It feels better, not amazingly better, but better. Maybe I was expecting too much. I only put about 30 miles on it while getting it home. I'll follow up if and when my opinion changes. I'll be inspecting their work as soon as the rain stops here in the Midwest.