DMax82
Silver Member
I remember being 16 and driving to Atlanta for the first time. This was about 20 years ago, so it's only gotten worse. I was on 285, speed limit 55, doing 85 and people were passing me like I was parked.
Head West Not So Young Man 2
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daugen
Epic Contributor
Well if I go by at 5 over in my motorhome, guess I'm going to annoy a lot of Atlantians....
besides I'd probably get too confused figuring out which PeachTree avenue I was on...
yes to small towns
besides I'd probably get too confused figuring out which PeachTree avenue I was on...
yes to small towns
Diggin It
Super Star Member
I would take whatever that road is from Augusta to Macon to Columbus. Aside from being a less hectic route by avoiding the sewer known as Atlanta, you go through two military towns which can have some cool and odd stores.
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daugen
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good idea. It's too bad the Good Sam's rv plotting software doesn't work the way MS Streets and Trips does where you can drag the route down to another road and everything adjusts. Now I have to add waypoints to get the route to go that way. While I'm doing all this plotting away on my home pc, when I get the rv home, will see how many waypoints the built in system will hold, likely more than the 25 Good Sams software maxes out at. Would be nice if software had good quality updated POI, selectable as to museums, zoos, historical sites.
dealer sent me radio manual but did not see info on route capacity, need to look at that again.
So far all the component parts of this rv have been better than average, except for the toilet. Plastic not china, plus
I will need to put a 4 inch riser on it. Have done that in past, worked well, no kids to worry about.
But little things like warming pads on all three holding tanks, nice for going through colder areas.
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
Macon has some nice, old houses if you like seeing those. I drove that route from Augusta to macon yrs ago.
Larro Darro
Elite Member
On long trails the rule of thumb is never go too far, too fast, too soon. Soon enough you will have your trail legs.
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daugen
Epic Contributor
Thanks Larro.
just got off phone with local tire dealer, Michelins that I want will net me a hundred bucks a tire more over the oem Continentals, and I decided no sense worrying about the tires, get what I need. He's only going to charge me 20 bucks a tire to mount and balance, while I reminded him these were Alcoa duallies on the back and he smiled and said if he needed more of my money he would ask for it. A really easy guy to get along with, owner of business, agreed to give me decent trade in on oem tires, which he knows are not long lasting. I told him when rv was parked in my driveway, I'd call him to order the tires. Meanwhile had to get a pair of new Michelins for front of truck, expensive tire day...
Confirmed the lady who is driving with me early tomorrow morning will set her alarm clock and dealer said they were fully ready.
I need to start writing my questions down, the things I want to make sure gets covered, while much he doesn't have to.
My short queen/rv queen heated mattress pad came in this morning.
Anyone who has ever owned a boat or an rv and tried to make the bed in tight areas will understand
my lack of enthusiasm for getting that on. At least it stays on, goes under sheets and keeps my arthritic back happy.
just got off phone with local tire dealer, Michelins that I want will net me a hundred bucks a tire more over the oem Continentals, and I decided no sense worrying about the tires, get what I need. He's only going to charge me 20 bucks a tire to mount and balance, while I reminded him these were Alcoa duallies on the back and he smiled and said if he needed more of my money he would ask for it. A really easy guy to get along with, owner of business, agreed to give me decent trade in on oem tires, which he knows are not long lasting. I told him when rv was parked in my driveway, I'd call him to order the tires. Meanwhile had to get a pair of new Michelins for front of truck, expensive tire day...
Confirmed the lady who is driving with me early tomorrow morning will set her alarm clock and dealer said they were fully ready.
I need to start writing my questions down, the things I want to make sure gets covered, while much he doesn't have to.
My short queen/rv queen heated mattress pad came in this morning.
Anyone who has ever owned a boat or an rv and tried to make the bed in tight areas will understand
my lack of enthusiasm for getting that on. At least it stays on, goes under sheets and keeps my arthritic back happy.
PJSprog
Elite Member
There are a lot of camping sites around Carlyle Lake. The COE Dam West seems to be popular. Easy to get in and out without getting lost in the maze of park roads.
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daugen
Epic Contributor
Rv is home and on the parking lot. Plugged into my 30 amp rv outlet on edge of garage.
Yesterday did not go easily. I posted this on Good Morning thread, because of interest.
Today's job is to get the auto leveling system sorted out, and clean the inside thoroughly, disinfect it actually.
Then I can start putting things away, mostly the hoses, cords, etc.
When I was at the rv show buying this motorhome, the only thing I asked of the salesman, who used to be their service mgr,
was that their dealership would go over the unit carefully as my experience had been poor for build quality, things coming loose, etc.
He said they did that very carefully. No they didn't, plain and simple.
There seems to be no concept of getting it right the first time in this industry.
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well I made it, but a day that was way too long and had too many bumps.
Young guy doing the training didn't know any more than I knew, which is fine for the stuff that's the same from rv to rv.
But when I start asking the stuff I don't know:
how does the mobileye accident avoidance system work?
I don't know, that's new.
Does this come with Sirius/XM?
I don't know, it should
How do you get to the nav part of the radio?
I can't find it.
At that point I found my salesperson, gently said the trainer wasn't helpful to me because he understood none of the electronics,
which is what a young person is supposed to know, right?...
So it turns out there is no navigation in the rv at all. Wrong radio allegedly installed at factory. Thankfully they had the right one in stock.
Now it's noon, I was supposed to be gone by then, owner not happy, gives me keys to loaner and 20 bucks and said please go have lunch on us.
Nice ride in a tiny beater Fiesta with 103k miles on it and a hole in the muffler. This was not a Lexus moment...
So thankfully the new radio works, and the trainer has zero idea what the icons do, quote from the owner "this stuff just all changed and it's all new
to us". Well, maybe that's true and maybe they need to do a better job of training the trainer.
I admit my humor was fouled from the very beginning when I popped the hood to the engine compartment and was a bit ticked off to find half an inch of grime over everything, must have driven here from Indiana in a rain storm, and two large piles of squirrel nuts stacked up around the hood latches. Clearly no one in the dealership had ever opened the hood. I looked at the trainer and just shook my head and quietly said this should not be. And left it at that. And it was still dirty when I drove out of there.
It will be cleaned tomorrow.
these were really nice people at D&H RV in Apex NC. But nice doesn't cut it enough if your business practices are sloppy.
I kept waiting to be impressed, and sure wasn't.
Ok, that's done, off my chest. Ride home was fine, very maneuverable, but much, much noiser than I thought. Lots of wind and tire noise.
Part may be due to my tinnitus, but I bet it quiets down a bunch when the new Michelins go on, oem tires are awful.
Engine had plenty of power, just had to ride the torque wave, picked up speed nicely. I drove between 65 and 70 on mostly 70mph roads, you could tell the faster you went the more you had to really keep your foot in it. Cruise control worked nicely, just wish Germans would not put it on a separate stalk that's close to turn signal.
oh, when I got it home the auto leveling system seemed to work, but error coded saying excess slope, which is absurd, look at the picture, maybe one degree, and it picked the front tires an inch totally off the ground and the rears over two inches off the ground. So I will fiddle with that tomorrow. Doesn't seem very stable perched up on those stork legs.
Outside looks nice, the plastic finish was well done.
time for dinner and an early bed. Will be less grumpy tomorrow.
Yesterday did not go easily. I posted this on Good Morning thread, because of interest.
Today's job is to get the auto leveling system sorted out, and clean the inside thoroughly, disinfect it actually.
Then I can start putting things away, mostly the hoses, cords, etc.
When I was at the rv show buying this motorhome, the only thing I asked of the salesman, who used to be their service mgr,
was that their dealership would go over the unit carefully as my experience had been poor for build quality, things coming loose, etc.
He said they did that very carefully. No they didn't, plain and simple.
There seems to be no concept of getting it right the first time in this industry.
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well I made it, but a day that was way too long and had too many bumps.
Young guy doing the training didn't know any more than I knew, which is fine for the stuff that's the same from rv to rv.
But when I start asking the stuff I don't know:
how does the mobileye accident avoidance system work?
I don't know, that's new.
Does this come with Sirius/XM?
I don't know, it should
How do you get to the nav part of the radio?
I can't find it.
At that point I found my salesperson, gently said the trainer wasn't helpful to me because he understood none of the electronics,
which is what a young person is supposed to know, right?...
So it turns out there is no navigation in the rv at all. Wrong radio allegedly installed at factory. Thankfully they had the right one in stock.
Now it's noon, I was supposed to be gone by then, owner not happy, gives me keys to loaner and 20 bucks and said please go have lunch on us.
Nice ride in a tiny beater Fiesta with 103k miles on it and a hole in the muffler. This was not a Lexus moment...
So thankfully the new radio works, and the trainer has zero idea what the icons do, quote from the owner "this stuff just all changed and it's all new
to us". Well, maybe that's true and maybe they need to do a better job of training the trainer.
I admit my humor was fouled from the very beginning when I popped the hood to the engine compartment and was a bit ticked off to find half an inch of grime over everything, must have driven here from Indiana in a rain storm, and two large piles of squirrel nuts stacked up around the hood latches. Clearly no one in the dealership had ever opened the hood. I looked at the trainer and just shook my head and quietly said this should not be. And left it at that. And it was still dirty when I drove out of there.
It will be cleaned tomorrow.
these were really nice people at D&H RV in Apex NC. But nice doesn't cut it enough if your business practices are sloppy.
I kept waiting to be impressed, and sure wasn't.
Ok, that's done, off my chest. Ride home was fine, very maneuverable, but much, much noiser than I thought. Lots of wind and tire noise.
Part may be due to my tinnitus, but I bet it quiets down a bunch when the new Michelins go on, oem tires are awful.
Engine had plenty of power, just had to ride the torque wave, picked up speed nicely. I drove between 65 and 70 on mostly 70mph roads, you could tell the faster you went the more you had to really keep your foot in it. Cruise control worked nicely, just wish Germans would not put it on a separate stalk that's close to turn signal.
oh, when I got it home the auto leveling system seemed to work, but error coded saying excess slope, which is absurd, look at the picture, maybe one degree, and it picked the front tires an inch totally off the ground and the rears over two inches off the ground. So I will fiddle with that tomorrow. Doesn't seem very stable perched up on those stork legs.
Outside looks nice, the plastic finish was well done.
time for dinner and an early bed. Will be less grumpy tomorrow.
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daugen
Epic Contributor
should have added, dealer thinks autoleveling system needs to be "zeroed out", sounds like unplug and reboot, and they will do that today
with me. But why didn't they do it before they delivered the unit? Why didn't they discover the rams were going all the way to the ends of their stops and holding
the rv up in the air? Why? because no one ever tested them, or whoever did was clueless about proper operation.
this isn't like taking your car back to local dealer. This is a 2.5 hour run for me burning a lot of fuel to get it there and back, plus I have to sit around the whole time.
this is why I asked, and the only thing I asked for, no deals, no freebies, nothing, just go over the unit carefully.
Clearly that is an unreasonable expectation in this industry.
have to take a square head screwdriver to the mounts on the salon tv, which had almost fallen off the wall as two out of three screws had backed out,
one hanging on by last thread. We found this looking to see if wall tv had a swivel. No, but it was about to fall off.
At least this is easy to fix. I'll put them back in with a little glue on the threads.
And once I get it all straightened out and fix the poor work of others, I'm sure it will be fine.
Hardest part is going to be making the bed with a mattress that folds, got my short queen sheets in, will wash them and see
how I do on the bed. At least it's mostly walkaround, for a thin person which I am not.
with me. But why didn't they do it before they delivered the unit? Why didn't they discover the rams were going all the way to the ends of their stops and holding
the rv up in the air? Why? because no one ever tested them, or whoever did was clueless about proper operation.
this isn't like taking your car back to local dealer. This is a 2.5 hour run for me burning a lot of fuel to get it there and back, plus I have to sit around the whole time.
this is why I asked, and the only thing I asked for, no deals, no freebies, nothing, just go over the unit carefully.
Clearly that is an unreasonable expectation in this industry.
have to take a square head screwdriver to the mounts on the salon tv, which had almost fallen off the wall as two out of three screws had backed out,
one hanging on by last thread. We found this looking to see if wall tv had a swivel. No, but it was about to fall off.
At least this is easy to fix. I'll put them back in with a little glue on the threads.
And once I get it all straightened out and fix the poor work of others, I'm sure it will be fine.
Hardest part is going to be making the bed with a mattress that folds, got my short queen sheets in, will wash them and see
how I do on the bed. At least it's mostly walkaround, for a thin person which I am not.
