We have had a busy and productive week. It started off with Butch deciding it was time to exercise the generator. These chores can get away from you very quickly if you are distracted or busy. And that is usually what happens. So Butch started the MoHo in preparation for starting the generator and it did not want to start. So he had to add in the house batteries to get enough power to start it. That worked but was disconcerting because it should have taken right off since the coach batteries were only two years old. So he let it run quite a while to let them charge. A couple of days later he tried to start it again and the same story. So he borrowed a battery load tester and one of our batteries was shot. Nothing to do but buy a new one. So we did buy one at Costco for $98.
Butch had also been tire-shopping for the MoHo and he got a quote from Pueblo Tire for $1,997. That is $2000 less than for Goodyears in Iowa. The difference is these are China made. Since there was so much difference in price we started on a fact-finding mission And as hard as I researched I could not find any bad reviews on these tires and I looked in many places. These are RoadLux Commercial tires and we decided to give them a try.
So knowing we would be taking the Moho to the tire shop Butch decided to make sure the Moho would start and the leveling legs would retract...uh, wait a minute the leveling legs would not retract! So after a couple of phone calls and some online diagnostics, we have ordered a new leveling panel from HWH. He did wiggle things around and get it working but wiggling around is not usually a long term solution so we are glad the new $200 panel is on the way.
Now you might think this was a sad tale of woe but actually, we are glad we checked things when we did and have everything in good working order for our trip north. These things will happen on occasion and it is good for it to be in familiar territory when it does.
The tires were mounted today and it took all morning. We had very interesting conversations with several local people and a couple of fellow Rvers and the time went quickly.
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