Officially took the Prevost Plunge...HELP?!?

[GDeen]

Welcome! Is that the "sea-foam green" (Jennifer color definition 40 footer? Very nice looking bus if so and we visited with the dealer about it for a while during our search.

As another new owner, excellent suggestions here. Learn as much as possible, and as C.Bus says, don't let problems get you down. Its all good.

[jimshoen]

Regarding Q3, you may want to use the coach for a little while before turning it over for a 'stem to stern'. Most issues can easily be dealt with. However, if you insist, your back account will be lighten.

[garyde]

Congradulations on you purchase. You will find, if you haven't aready, POG members are very happy to help you spend your money. On the other hand, Jon and others are correct, you can save big bucks by taking it slow and determining who should work on your coach. If your tires are 02 or 03 tires I would replace them no matter how good they look.
A detroit Deisel /Allison dealer can do most of your chasis and engine /transmission work usually so don't feel restricted to use Prevost or Marathon.

[mikedee]

I like the Prevost center in Mira Loma. As with any place the quality of the work often is directly related to who works on the bus. Ask the service writer, Dee to have "Little Tony" do the work. He works on the swing shift and gets it done and done right.

Tony was trained in the military on helicopters and it show's. He will treat your bus like an AH-64 Apache when it comes to detail.

Best of all he get to work, not true for all the Mira Loma staff. Mention my name he is a very good friend of Dee and myself.

[Loc]

Welcome Gary and Karen and congratulations on your new bus.

It is great to have folks with your background on POG. There are always a number of questions on satellite systems and HD versus non-HD that come up. You are now the resident experts.

Do you travel around with the business of generally stay in a set number of locations?

[GSwaim]

Hey gang, we decided to pass on the Marathon and go with a beautiful Royale. We have had it for four weeks now and it is simple and easy to get accustom to. For those that don't know us, our previous coach was a 2008 fourty five foot, four slide HR Navigator. The royale is a 45 foot no slide by choice and other than a smaller kitchen we haven't felt the crunch for space.

Karen, my wife loves to cook so the smaller kitchen will need to be optomized to make it efficient. We plan to upgrade the cooktop and all some organization to the cupboards sor pots and pan storage as well as supply storage. Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of cooktop to go with? We are looking at the Induction style of cooktop that requires metalic pans but heat instantly or go with the new ceramic radiant heat style cooktop that heats & cools fast with any type of pan. Any suggestions?

[Wahoo]

Hi
We installed a ceramic cooktop in January of 2009 and I love it.
I too love to cook and it has worked out very well.
Good luck

[GSwaim]

We have decided to have Phoenix Royale install a flush mount ribbon element ceramic 3 burner cooktop in our bus. It has taken us a long time to decide on the cooktop unit to use and we are hoping this is the right choice. The reasons we are doing this is we have very little counter space with the cooktop cover off and the old princess cooktop take forever to heat and cool. By going with a 3 burner we can save the original counter and cut out the recessed part that currently holds the two burner. This will allow us to install a flush mounted cooktop that has no knobs so it will double as a counter when not in use. Seaward Princess not only uses the new ribbon element that heats to full temp in 5 seconds but has a internal fan that cools the cook top faster after your done cooking.

We've decided to not install this ourselves because the old Centurian counter top material is 8 years old and probably very brittle. If we crack or destroy the counter we're on the hook to replace the whole thing if Phoenix Royale does it, they have the responsibility. Then there is the possibility that the current wire to the cooktop is insuficient so a new one must be pulled. It will be a good learning lesson to see the Royale experts handle this. I've been looking for a project that will show me their work so this fits the bill nicely.

[Coloradobus]

Gary, We have slowpoke electric cooktop as well. We were considering going to propane, but your install sounds interesting. What model and serial number is the Seaward Princess are you using

[dmatz]

Congratulations on your coach. You will be happy with the Royal Phoenix folks. They know all about your coach and have been a great resource for information and parts.