On Tuesday we departed Torrey Oaks and traveled north to the Crown Club at
Lazydays for a scheduled service appointment. Our appointment was for Wednesday, but the Crown Club offers complimentary camping in the Crown Club campground for the night
preceding your service. They parked us right at the front door to the Crown Club clubhouse, where we first enjoyed lunch and later enjoyed happy hour. There were two items on our service list: a DOT recall on the side marker lights on our coach and a refrigerator recall on our
Dometic refrigerator. As it turns out, neither item was completed. Country Coach, the manufacturer of our coach has been closed since mid-December for an extended furlough. Country Coach is in serious financial distress and it is possible that they will not reopen at all, at least not under the current management. Our side lights were ordered from Country Coach the first week in November, but were never shipped.
Lazydays has been unable to locate another vendor for these lights, so no new marker lights for the
Whitleys today. This is not really a big deal. These would be additional marker lights, mandated by the Canadian government when Country Coach received authorization to sell new coaches in Canada. If/when Country Coach reopens, we'll get it taken care of. The second service item, our
Dometic fridge recall was not completed either.
Lazydays had originally told us our
refrigerator was subject to the recall, but when we arrived, they said they had learned it was not affected by the recall. I'm not yet convinced that we're not subject, so I will talk to
Dometic directly later. This is a safety recall; some cooling units have developed an ammonia coolant leak, resulting in an explosion and a fire. Not pretty. So, after two foiled service events and a night of free camping and free meals, we received our complimentary coach wash (life is good!) and we moved 1/4 mile to Rally Park. Where we would be parked until Sunday.
At Rally Park we
immediately ran into many friends with Safari TREKS. We were registered for the winter rally of the
Southeast TREK Fun Club, from Thursday through Sunday. A little over 50 coaches were registered for the Rally. Most were TREKS, but a few, like us, arrived in
SOBs (some other brand). We enjoyed the fellowship of our many TREK friends and attended a few technical seminars. We took Matilda to the dog park every day and let her enjoy the fellowship of all her canine friends. Tonight we won a door prize for dinner for two at Cracker Barrel. Actually this prize was first won by our close friends Dave and Audrey, but since Audrey was drawing the prizes, and in fact drew her own name, she put it back into the hat. Thanks Audrey!. Tomorrow we depart Rally Park.
immediately ran into many friends with Safari TREKS. We were registered for the winter rally of the Southeast TREK Fun Club, from Thursday through Sunday. A little over 50 coaches were registered for the Rally. Most were TREKS, but a few, like us, arrived in SOBs (some other brand). We enjoyed the fellowship of our many TREK friends and attended a few technical seminars. We took Matilda to the dog park every day and let her enjoy the fellowship of all her canine friends. Tonight we won a door prize for dinner for two at Cracker Barrel. Actually this prize was first won by our close friends Dave and Audrey, but since Audrey was drawing the prizes, and in fact drew her own name, she put it back into the hat. Thanks Audrey!. Tomorrow we depart Rally Park.
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