Quote Originally Posted by Jon Wehrenberg View Post
Congratulations Mark.

From your short experience you are seeing that your new bus is going to need some fine tuning. I don't know who will be standing behind the repairs on your new purchase, but you can either attack the issues all at once or you can let them accumulate over a long time preventing you from fully enjoying the coach.

With it at your home base this would be the perfect time to live in it for several days and work and operate every single system. You shouldn't have doors coming off track or ceilings falling so you can almost be assured there are going to be other things that need attention. Ditto for the chassis. By doing this you will learn the coach, learn how to operate the systems and features, and understand what you do not know so you can ask questions.

These are not simple machines and the nuances of living and traveling in one may not yet be fully realized. Even if you never intend to do any of your own maintenance or repairs, at the very least you do need to understand the coach and what the various switches and knobs do, and what the gauges are telling you. These are great fun and the ultimate toys, and will give you hours of enjoyment if you understand them and are on top of things.
You are right, these are great machines! As to the list I posted, I have already fixed everything except the slide. Can you use silicone on the slide gaskets/seals without harming them? Also, I imagine that a trip to Prevost would be in order for the error that occurs when opening the front slide?

I am going to take it in for an oil change and have the transmission filter changed as well. The bus now has about 7700 miles on it and I just feel better getting that stuff out of the way. I will probably change the generator oil myself, but it only has 85 or so hours on it.

I am going to take some time this weekend and start reading the manuals I have not looked at. Have to give it a wash too....it got filthy on the way from KC.

We are very happy so far, I am hoping for a nice weekend or two in November before the snow arrives so we can use it a bit more and make sure there are no other issues we haven't yet found.