It's common to see some pretty old Prevost still enjoying life on the road. By RV standards, not Prevost standards, my 99 would be considered pretty old. What does it take to keep these buses going? What are those unique maintenance items we all need to know about. I'm not talking routine oil changes and wiper blade replacements, but those things we wouldn't know of unless we had Prevost experience.

One such item is the small round foam rubber gaskets that fit over the rod that holds our side windows opened or closed. As these age they shrink, get hard and brittle, and eventually break away. Well before failure they will no longer seal that hole the rod goes through to support the window. The result, if not parked on level ground, is water coming in around that hole. I just replaced all 10. They aren't cheap at $4.49 each. Had I had more time I probably could have found a 25 cent replacement. At $50 my windows should be good to go for several more years.

BTW, I replaced all of my air bags given recommendations from others and the fact I don't want a failure on our trip to Alaska. FWIW, the bags on this 98 chassis with 85K miles looked just fine. Another person at Prevost-Jacksonville with me had 150K miles on his 16 year old bus and wasn't considering changing his.

What else should I be looking at?

Gil