I posted a few weeks ago about the guy that did an oil change and charged me $381 for the air filter (Freightliner says it's $90.) (He also charged me $3,000 labor for putting new parts in my generator, but that's another story.)
Now I have another problem, and I'm not sure if it's from the oil change or the service I did the following week.
I went to a truck repair place to have my brakes replaced. The guy told me I should do the drums since I'm doing the brakes. When I was on iRV2 to ask about the air filter, I saw a thread about air bags. A couple years ago, last time I had the brakes done at Freightliner, they said a couple of my air bags were leaking. I had not replaced them then. My coach is a 2006 Fleetwood Discovery 35H, so it's about 16 years old. Reading that thread scared me enough to go ahead and bite the bullet. So I told him to go ahead and do the air bags as well. All told, it was $2,600 with labor for brakes, drums, and air bags.
Here's the problem. I picked up my MH on Friday, and on Monday I left for Phoenix (from Las Vegas, NV). I wore gloves to unhook my tow vehicle and didn't notice a lot, but a day later noticed a black greasy residue on my car door handle. After 3 days, I drove from Phoenix to southern Calif. When I got on the freeway, it was stop and go, and I noticed a shuddering in the brakes and a pull to the right. I continued driving and got to Calif. When I went to unhook my vehicle, there was a black greasy residue sprayed over my entire car, and the tow hitch was covered in it. I was parked in my spot for several days, and nothing leaked from the RV to the ground during that time.
I'm going home Monday and wondering if it's safe to drive that far. I also need an idea of who to call out for a possible error. The shudder isn't there anymore, but the RV still pulls a bit to the right. So there's definitely an issue to take it back
to the brake guy. But where the heck did all that black gunk come from?? Oil change, brakes, or just pure coincidence and no connection to either?
Thanks for any help you guys can give me.