Red Bay, Alabama

Well, so I don't have any pictures at Red Bay, Alabama, so this'll have to do!

We called the factory to see about having them repair our slide out, which I thought was probably the motor gears.  We were told that this summer (July) they changed their policy, and won't work on any Tiffin product that is 10 years old or older.  (Ours was built in 2005).  We were given the name of someone that had worked at Tiffin for 17 years, and now owns his own shop in a nearby town in Mississippi, he is actually co-owner with another former Tiffin employee that worked for them for 14 years.   We called him.  He told me that he was very busy, but if the slide out was our only problem, that he could see us at 8 A.M. the next day.  We pulled into a Mississippi State Park that was only 2 miles down the road from his shop and spent the night there, MS is pretty reasonable, only $17.50 for a senior for 1 night.

When we arrived at the shop, the guy we had talked to wasn't going to be in for a couple hours, but the other fellas in the shop said they would have a look.  Sure enough, the motor was stripped out.  They didn't have a new one on hand, but they had a used one on the shelf.  They assured me it was working when they removed it from another rig, so I said to put it in.  They did.  It works fine.  Once the "real" guy showed up Eloise asked if he could look at our shower surround that had come loose from the wall.  My earlier attempts to attach it had failed.  He did lots of measurements and decided that there was nothing behind where the screws were except the thin wall, and suggested a couple screws at the very top where he knew there was a beam.  Eloise agreed to that, he did it, and it worked great.  

When he totaled up the bill, he only charged us $100 for the used motor, and $112 labor (@$75 hr).  Total bill with tax was $227.38.  I had previously priced new motors on-line and they ranged all the way to $950.  

Right now we're happy with the result and the savings!!  

A sad note; about a half hour before we got to Little Rock we hit rain again, it rained most of the next 3 days.  The slide on the opposite side leaked during the torrential downpours and soaked the carpet inside about a third of the way across the living room.  I don't know how to attempt a repair, so for now we are keeping it retracted.  I've quit saying "well, that's everything, nothing else will go wrong".