1 More Month

Until we can start getting the camping gear set, I need to visit the rig next weekend and verify my patch from last summer is holding up. If it isn’t, we probably have a surprise waiting for us. I cleaned the interior pretty well when I was there last, so there shouldn’t be any mold in the fridge. I’ll take pictures since this is the first year I didn’t go visit the RV over the winter and I went off of reports from the dealer, that has never worked out for me before so we’ll see.

With the wife and I working for the same company we decided to purchase a dash cam. We’re on the tollway a lot and we see a lot of strange things. Plus, a lot of accidents so to keep us safe from people who would lie to get out of blame this is the great equalizer. This way if we do get into an accident we will have evidence of either our guilt or innocence. If this works out I’ll be adding a second camera for the back window.

Here is a review about this particular Dash Cam, the DOD LS430W. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLFZuKSYiZs

         

New Computer Time

I named it ODIN, because it is all powerful. :)

Intel i7-5820k 3.30GHz CPU overclocked to 4.75GHz, 16gigs of new DDR4, EVGA Classified X99 motherboard, 2 EVGA Classified GTX 980’s in SLI, an EVGA 1300 watt SuperNova G2 Power Supply, a Corsair H100i water cooler for the CPU, a Corsair K95 RGB  red cherry keys mechanical keyboard and an NZXT Phantom 820 chassis, the biggest chassis I have ever worked with.

It’s going to be used to run the office, video editing and for the first time in 8 years some video gaming, 4k gaming in ultra high mode is easily run on this machine. This thing is a beast and will out-run an Intel i7-5960x (at stock clocks).

Here is the home office, the computer has running lights like most modern cars and the color can be changed. The keyboard is capable of 16.8 million colors, why? Who knows, but it’s cool.

I have to find what I did with the SLI pictures so this only shows a single GTX 980, more to come when I get organized.

 

Viking Funeral

Coast Guard gives WWII vet a Viking funeral at sea

Check out the link, great article!

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20141002/NEWS03/310020066/Coast-Guard-gives-WWII-vet-Viking-funeral-sea

Hunting Hawk

While going for a walk today at the campground a hawk dropped out of the sky and scooped up a chipmunk. It happened maybe about 10ft away. I just happened to be looking in the right direction when the hawk landed and took off again. We could hear the chipmunks cries as the hawk took off.

Ronda was horrified while I was in awe of of it. I watched the hawk fly off with the chipmunk in its talons and while I know the chipmunk met its end I couldn’t help but admire the hawk. It was a perfect weekend, well, except for the Bears losing…

MSI Computer Corp… Never Again…..

I bought a very expensive video card 2 years ago, it came with a 3 year replacement or repair it warranty… it died, MSI has had it for over a month and then I get this response tonight. $56.00 doesn’t buy squat and they honestly believe that I believe that they don’t have a suitable replacement in a company that size…

Oy vey… guess which company I won’t be buying from in the future? Hmmmmm

Life & RV Update

On May 15th I was notified my employment would end at the company I was working for. Considering I was originally only supposed to be there for two weeks back in September of 2002 I am happy to have made it 12 years.

I had a job interview yesterday and received an official offer today so my 3.5 month run of unemployment is officially over!

We are at the campground for our yearly vacation which ends this Sunday, perfect timing.

I start the new job on Monday. There are 5 sites I’ll be managing and it will be challenging and rewarding.

I can’t wait!!

RV Update, the RV goes in on October 15th to have the final 2 warranty items repaired and to find out where the water is coming from that is laying on the belly of the RV. It’s a cover that seals the under-carriage and one side has water in it, there are no leaks so I think this was left over from when they had the tank open to repair the seal. We’ll see, until then we are enjoying what’s left of the season!

RV Update

Got home from the RV delivery today. They dropped the idea of charging me for warranty work. We had a very extensive discussion, I explained they were wrong and kept explaining until they agreed. I can be persuasive when I need to be. To be fair, I told them to explain this policy so I understand it because I wasn't trying to get away with free work, they agreed I have never abused the warranty so... they will weigh that going forward. I hope they do for other people as well.

Well, the warranty has expired so aside from the two items left everything will be charged going forward. I'm not sure if I would buy from them again, we'll have to see how it goes from here on out. I don’t like sneaky, I’m honest with people, it’s not too much to ask they do the same.

I get into the rig after helping the driver place the rig in our spot and find they didn't fix the LED's, they forgot, they also left the toilet filled with water so when the rig was delivered the water went all over the bathroom. Had fun cleaning that up for a good 10 minutes.

The new counter top looks nice and the automatic jacks seem to function properly. I'm going to fix the LED's myself and the rig goes back October 15th so they will replace the storage door and pocket door at that point. The good part is they are nice people, the drivers who deliver the RV are fantastic and always go above and beyond so I do appreciate good work when it's done.

We have family coming this weekend, our nephew Tyler is coming back from the Navy for a short leave so Friday and Saturday I need to get the site cleaned up, get wood stacked and then clean the RV. This time I plan on taking pictures! I'll post some next week.

Warranty Doesn’t Cover Warranty….

We have our Montana 3725RL Fifth Wheel in the shop for the warranty work to be completed because officially the warranty ended on July 2nd. We had our list together and in before that date because the dealer couldn’t fit us in until after that date. They assured us the warranty will cover our concerns.

We brought it in 3 weeks ago for getting the counter top replaced in the kitchen slide because it cracked, fix the black tank valve that wouldn’t close properly and also prevented proper flushing, to repair a pocket door that was falling apart, to repair a power issue in our kitchen island, to repair a popping sound the auto-leveling system was making and to repair a storage bay door and check the roof. We bought a high end Montana to ensure the best quality.

That’s hogwash, sure, you get better cabinets, fancier lighting etc.. etc.. etc.. what you don’t get is a better build. They all are built pretty much the same, bull you say? It’s a fact, unfortunately so yes, it has a better frame, fully welded and it has a better suspension and fully insulated walls and roof and fancy AC units that are quiet and can freeze a mouses nads on the hottest days but the actual build quality is still staples and screws and the same guys who build the cheap ones do the same mistakes on the expensive ones.

So, where was I? I got a call from the dealer today, the rig is finally ready, no wait, they are waiting for two parts, the pocket door and one outside compartment door. The rest is done, what happened next had my jaw on the floor. The item they couldn’t repair because they couldn’t duplicate the problem, THEY ARE CHARGING US FOR THE TIME because the power didn’t fail in the kitchen island for the 20 minutes they spent trying to duplicate the problem, how did they duplicate the problem, by sitting there waiting to see if it would pop!!!! Did they actually test anything? NO!!!! But they are sure going to charge me for it!

Yes, you read that right, because they didn’t find a problem they can’t charge Keystone for their time under the warranty so they will charge me. They almost charged me for the black tank test but feel their “wording” on the warranty claim will get it paid by Keystone. Now mind you, they had to replace the black tank valve which was preventing me from flushing the tank properly so I guess I should thank my lucky stars that this was covered?!?!?

They wonder why the RV industry has a bad reputation? We give a list of issues the RV has, that the warranty covers, they never tell us oh, by the way, if nothing is found to be wrong we’re going to charge YOU for it. Well shit fire and save the matches I guess I should have broken the item to ensure it was covered?!?!?

I am going to the owners office tomorrow and I can guarantee you when I am done, if there are customers in the showroom they won’t be buying because I’m going to tell all of them this is what you can expect if you buy from this dealer. Unless of course the owner decides to not charge us for doing what they are supposed to do. I can tell you this, he will wish he never tried.

Imagine buying a new car and taking it in during it’s full warranty because sometimes it has issues starting and they tell you they can’t duplicate the problem so they are charging you book time for their efforts. You’d laugh in their face!

Keep in mind, we had the rig in before for this power issue, nothing was found and yet there was no charge, why the change? We’ll see tomorrow when I confront them. Tomorrow is going to be a make it or break it day for ever doing business with them again.