There are a couple areas in the fifth wheel for which the dealer performing the repairs doesn't have the best solution. We took a trip to the local Camping World location in Avondale to check out options for our toilet and for our satellite needs.
Our fifth wheel has a Sealand Concerto ceramic/electric toilet that is probably the top-of-the-line toilet for an RV. Our salesman that sold us the fifth wheel back in 2007 gave us a free upgrade to this toilet which we love. We have problems with it now - of course, it is over 8 years old. The RV repair dealer is quoting an outrageous price to fix it, so we went looking for options. We thought that we had a "normal" toilet selected that satisfies our needs but by the time we added adapters to the floor connections to install where the Sealand unit is, the cost is about the same as replacing the existing Sealand toilet with a new one of the same style. That is most likely the way we will go. The best (and cheapest) thing to do is to take our fifth wheel to Camping World following the existing service to have it installed.
The satellite is a different problem. The company (Moto Sat) that supplied the satellite equipment that we presently have went out of business a couple years ago and we need to upgrade the equipment. We will probably acquire the Camping World replacement satellite equipment which is DirecTV equipment and would be an easy installation. That is very costly though, so we are trying to figure out how we can get it done without possibly going without buying groceries for the rest of the year. Our budget has been decimated by the unscheduled, but necessary, trip to Seattle last week.
It looks like we are back on schedule to get everything done on time. We should be ready to move into the RV space at the Pioneer RV Resort on schedule on February 17...
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