Re-Tirement, Day 3
[Back-dated due to an internet outage]
We now have four solid new tires on the RV; however, not all is well yet.
Thursday morning, I shuttled the fourth tire over to the shop. They were a little backed up, so I left it there until they called me a couple hours later. Lisa installed it and put away the hydraulic jack. We now have four new tires installed.
We initially had intended to transfer the best of the four old tires to the spare tire; however, upon looking more closely, Lisa determined that the existing spare tire was marginally better than the best of the other tires. Nevertheless, she does not like the look of the spare, and we will buy one more of the General Tire Grabbers to replace it later.
Annoyingly, when we went to reinstall the spare on its bracket on the back of the RV, one of the two carriage bolts that holds it to the bracket stripped. Even worse, the local hardware store doesn't carry that type of bolt. Fixing this is important in the long run, but we've had to put it off due to more urgent issues, and for now, the spare is sitting inside the RV taking up space.
With the road tires settled, we went to take the RV for a short drive to make sure everything else worked. Unfortunately, after sitting for several months, the battery was dead. While I went to a chiropractor appointment, Lisa jump-started the RV from her pickup, let it charge up for a bit, and made sure its air conditioning seemed to work, and drove it around the block.
We needed to get groceries for Lisa as I'll be away for the next two weeks, so we though we'd drive the RV given that its AC works. Except that when I started it up, I realized that the driver's side mirror needed adjusting. I tried to roll down the window. Nothing. The power window didn't work. While investigating this, we ended up rolling down the passenger side window. In this case, both the up and down buttons rolled the window down and nothing rolled it up. So we shut things down again and Lisa went to work on the passenger side door. While Lisa worked on this, a thunderstorm rolled in, which make the temperatures much cooler, but also started getting things wet and harder to handle.
After Lisa removed the paneling from the door, she was able to access the window mechanism, but not to get the power window to move up. She was able to force the window back up and jam it into place temporarily so that we could secure the RV again, but this is only a quick patch and once again we'll have to put off a fix until I get back from the Bay Area.
We now have four solid new tires on the RV; however, not all is well yet.
Thursday morning, I shuttled the fourth tire over to the shop. They were a little backed up, so I left it there until they called me a couple hours later. Lisa installed it and put away the hydraulic jack. We now have four new tires installed.
We initially had intended to transfer the best of the four old tires to the spare tire; however, upon looking more closely, Lisa determined that the existing spare tire was marginally better than the best of the other tires. Nevertheless, she does not like the look of the spare, and we will buy one more of the General Tire Grabbers to replace it later.
Annoyingly, when we went to reinstall the spare on its bracket on the back of the RV, one of the two carriage bolts that holds it to the bracket stripped. Even worse, the local hardware store doesn't carry that type of bolt. Fixing this is important in the long run, but we've had to put it off due to more urgent issues, and for now, the spare is sitting inside the RV taking up space.
With the road tires settled, we went to take the RV for a short drive to make sure everything else worked. Unfortunately, after sitting for several months, the battery was dead. While I went to a chiropractor appointment, Lisa jump-started the RV from her pickup, let it charge up for a bit, and made sure its air conditioning seemed to work, and drove it around the block.
We needed to get groceries for Lisa as I'll be away for the next two weeks, so we though we'd drive the RV given that its AC works. Except that when I started it up, I realized that the driver's side mirror needed adjusting. I tried to roll down the window. Nothing. The power window didn't work. While investigating this, we ended up rolling down the passenger side window. In this case, both the up and down buttons rolled the window down and nothing rolled it up. So we shut things down again and Lisa went to work on the passenger side door. While Lisa worked on this, a thunderstorm rolled in, which make the temperatures much cooler, but also started getting things wet and harder to handle.
After Lisa removed the paneling from the door, she was able to access the window mechanism, but not to get the power window to move up. She was able to force the window back up and jam it into place temporarily so that we could secure the RV again, but this is only a quick patch and once again we'll have to put off a fix until I get back from the Bay Area.