Saturday, my new Coachman Chaparral took a turn for the worse. I was driving down the interstate when I heard my wife honking the horn in her SUV behind me. Apparently, my rubber roof was blowing off the top of my camper! I immediately turned my flashers on and pulled over onto the shoulder. Cindy came running scared to death. She said that she thought any second it was going to blow off and go through her windshield. We called my buddy Dave to see if he could locate an RV dealership in my area to have it towed in. Unfortunately, there wasn’t. I did however, find a local “shade tree” mechanic and he was able to diagnose my problem. He said he’s worked on everything that has wheels and said that I needed something called a new rubber roof system. This was like speaking Spanish to me since I had no idea about any specific RV parts.
He told me of a website he has used to help people known as RV Parts Country. Apparently they have all the pieces I needed at almost half the cost of any dealer within one hundred or more miles. Since he was a registered customer of theirs, he went ahead and ordered and got the parts the next day. Luckily, we didn’t stay long. We stayed the night at Dave’s house and the next morning after Rex, the mechanic, received the parts it was fixed. We paid Rex for his time and trouble and for the parts and headed on our to the campsite with my cousin Dave that we were originally destined for. This slowed us up for a day or so, but it did give us a good chance to catch a little shut eye. I would like to thank Rex and RV Parts Country for this speedy fix on my Chaparral and for the discount RV parts!
Last Saturday my family and I decided to take a little trip down to Tennessee to hopefully get in some good fishing and camping while my kids were on Fall break. We borrowed my cousin’s Winebago RV since I didn’t have a 5th wheel hitch on my new truck I bought. His only request was we wash and wax the RV and fill it up with gasoline. When we departed we waved good-bye to Lenny and headed on down to Pigeon Forge. Once we arrived at our campsite we unrolled the RV awning and started unpacking all of our camping supplies. My 13-year old son Skyler was unpacking the cooler and decided not to unload all of our food first so he came walking through the Winebago and dropped it on the RV faucet on the way out. Right away, here came the water works.
I rushed and stopped up the leak while scolded Skyler about not following my directions. My wife was freaking out because she thought Lenny was going to throw a fit. I called him up on my cell phone and explained the situation. To my knowing, he was fine. He just said that if we didn’t care to replace it and that it was no sweat off his back. This was a problem, because I wasn’t familiar with the area we were in. I asked him if he knew of anywhere and he told me he orders all of his RV parts and RV accessories from a website known as RV Parts Country. He claimed their rates are the best and their shipping is the fastest. As soon as I thanked him and got off the phone I went and got online to do some RV parts shopping.
I found the customer support hotline immediately and gave them a call. They assisted in me in getting the correct RV faucet and not only that, I got some additional RV parts for my 5th wheel and found a great person to get my 5th wheel hitch at. I have to no one to thank other than Lenny and RV Parts Country.
This past year, my thought of a perfect camping trip was shot. It turned out to be the most horrible one I’ve ever been on. If my RV would have been caught under a mudslide, the situation wouldn’t have been any worse. I have now finally found all of my RV parts I needed to fix the darn thing with. After mentioning taking some time off with the family, I didn’t mean take everyone. I only meant to take my wife and two sons. Not my next door neighbor and his 3 spoiled brats.
In August, I told everyone that I was going on a family vacation and the first thing my wife did was tell the neighbors. She said she was just being friendly, butshe knows how I can’t stand their kids. They are always running around like they own everything. They tear up every toy they’ve ever owned, so I knew this trip was going to be a disaster. In my Camper, I can sleep up to 5 people comfortably, but 9 was pushing it too far!
Once we got to the campsite, I noticed that our neighbors didn’t have any tent or anything loaded with their stuff. I knew right then that they actually thoughtwe were all going to sleep in that camper. I would rather sleep on the ground than wake up with creamed cheese in my face because little Raymond pulls “practical jokes” in his sleep. I know that kids don’t do things like that in their sleep. Just as soon as those brats got out, they ran straight into the camper with dart guns.To my surprise, my 2 sons joined in with all of that mayhem. It took a total of 30 minutes for me to hear a crash. The next thing I know an RV faucet came flyingout the window. I immediatley ran inside to find water spraying all over the place. Everything in there was upside-down! I cut me a switch and I whipped all fiveof those young ones running around. To my surprise, my neighbor actually whipped them after I did. He even offered to buy me the parts that I needed for my camper. He bought me a new RV faucet from RV Parts Country. RV Parts Country is an online dealer that apparently has the cheapest RV parts in the United States. Now,me and my neighbor are friends once again!
