This is one of those stories that should have been over, but isn't! As mentioned before, our water heater tank failed after more than ten years of service. I made calls around and chose to take the motorhome to Camping World for the new water heater as they came up with a price that was significantly below any of the other locations when installation was included. It took several days to get a new water heater as we have one with the "motor aid" featuer which uses engine coolant to keep the water hot while traveling. The new one arrived at the Denton, TX store on Wednesday, December 29 and they arranged to install it for us the afternoon of Dec. 30.

When I picked it up the installing tech told me that I should ignore the drips as it was from spilled antifreeze when he installed it. I had not taken extra antifreeze along so I stopped and got more on our way home since some loss is normal. When I got back to East Fork park the drip seemed to be worse, so I looked under the coach and removed the access panel before connecting the water. As soon as the water was connected I found that the water supply into the tank was leaking. We called Camping World at 8 on Friday, Dec. 31 and they told us to bring it back, which we did ASAP. Of course the trip is more than 60 miles each time. We were there about an hour when the tech came to tell us that the leak is from the new tank and that it is bad also! Since it was New Year's Eve, the Atwood supply house was closed and there was nothing that they could do until Monday!

We drove the motorhome down to our friends for the weekend and then back to the park on Sunday. I then discovered that we still have a small coolant leak as well! On Monday they did call me back to let me know that they will have another water heater on Jan. 6 and can put it in for us at 1pm on the seventh. Because of this history, I told them that I felt very strongly that the installation was poorly done and was not properly tested. The service manager agreed and said that they would be having a tech we have previously had good work from, do the job for us.

But nothing is life is all that simple! We will be closing on our new RV-port home on Thursday afternoon, so we take the motorhome in as early as we can and then head east to Tyler, TX for the closing. We will then have to come back to this area in order to pick up the motorhome before we go and move into the new home! What a mess!At least we did have a great time with our friends over the New Year weekend.

I sure wish that I had chosen the place that charged me more and that did better work! I will be very careful about checking everything out before we take the motorhome back to Tyler as well. And you don't want me to give an opinion on the choice of Camping World for service work!