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09-17-2022, 10:24 PM
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Senior Member
Entegra Owners Club
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Full Time - Most of the time we are lost.
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I am wondering why you guys don’t switch the house batteries to lithium as in the long run it will save you lots of cash. We are running LiFeBlue 300 amp hour lithium that will give 100% capacity to 5000 cycles. After that the capacity drops to 80%. In over 2 years we have used less than 30 cycles and we boondock 99% of the time.
Just curious 🤣
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09-18-2022, 03:03 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Copperas Cove, Texas
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Entegra Radiator replacement
I had to replace mine in 2020. It cost $9.000.
Extended warranty did "NOT" cover it. You can have it repaired yourself thousands less. Call around for a radiator shop.
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09-18-2022, 04:01 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2017
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I just rebuilt my radiator last year, it was a 2001. I had it rebuilt instead of replaced. Cost $3200 installed. Probably would be more now.
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09-18-2022, 04:20 PM
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Senior Member
Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Mulino, OR
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It’s so sad that after 2008 the quality of RVs has gone down continuously. Even when you think they’ve hit rock bottom, the quality keeps getting lower and lower. And now with the supply chain problem, good luck getting any junk parts to put back on your newer motorhome. Quality motorhomes and quality parts are long gone!
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09-18-2022, 05:30 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2022
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Monaco also had a few years of a bad radiator supplier supplying them junk radiators. I guess it can happen to any coach manufacturer.
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09-18-2022, 05:46 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2022
Location: Harker Heights, TX
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Have you ever checked the PH of your radiator fluid? Something is really wrong here if radiators are failing so quickly. Are your temperatures consistently high? How many miles or hours between failures? Have you flushed the full system to clean out any corrosion debris? Too much sediment or weak coolant might be a contributor? Or, I guess, just a poor quality radiator. Just seems weird.
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09-18-2022, 06:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Are you using a correct chemical balance in your coolant? There is no reason a radiator should fail at all unless there is a lot of salt on the roads where you drive. The other cause can be using the wrong coolant (this can also damage the engine over time). The engine manufacturer can tell you exactly what you should be putting in the cooling system.
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09-18-2022, 06:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2015
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It sounds like a over acidic cooling system! Has anybody checked the antifreeze PH? Was a total engine coolant flush performed? Was a external water condition filter added after the first failure?
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09-18-2022, 07:03 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Lynn, glad you dodge the bullet. Now go buy a Lotto ticket!
When you win big, remember your Entegra friends…[emoji3]
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09-18-2022, 10:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2017
Location: VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C.
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Radiator
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Originally Posted by dbircky
What’s taking out so many radiators?
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Vibration!!
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09-18-2022, 11:56 PM
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Glad to hear that! Congratulations! You better buy a lottery ticket.
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09-19-2022, 05:31 AM
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Senior Member
Entegra Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: SW FL
Posts: 31,735
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeterFTH
Are you using a correct chemical balance in your coolant? There is no reason a radiator should fail at all unless there is a lot of salt on the roads where you drive. The other cause can be using the wrong coolant (this can also damage the engine over time). The engine manufacturer can tell you exactly what you should be putting in the cooling system.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fordguydel
It sounds like a over acidic cooling system! Has anybody checked the antifreeze PH? Was a total engine coolant flush performed? Was a external water condition filter added after the first failure?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by almacd1814
Vibration!!
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It was explained at the beginning of the post the bad radiator that Spartan was installing 2014-2016. It is a know fact in all brand of coaches that used Spartan chassis, Spartan installed junk radiators and those owners are still paying out of pocket. Spartan has never been held liable.
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09-19-2022, 06:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Fort walton Beach Fl
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Quote:
Originally Posted by brobox
It was explained at the beginning of the post the bad radiator that Spartan was installing 2014-2016. It is a know fact in all brand of coaches that used Spartan chassis, Spartan installed junk radiators and those owners are still paying out of pocket. Spartan has never been held liable.
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This radiator thing is a damn shame for all the owners.
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2016 Entegra Cornerstone
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09-19-2022, 06:57 AM
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Senior Member
Entegra Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: SW FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lault
This radiator thing is a damn shame for all the owners.
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Why Spartan has nevre been held accountable for selling known defective products is beyond me. At $5,000 per occurrence is beyond the cost of it's not worth the the time to take action.
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Digital 2021 Cornerstone "B"
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