Wednesday 5 September 2007

Day 99

So, here we still are, on Cummins parking lot, in Sioux Falls. That is the bad news.

The good news is we think the problem has been fixed. The technician was knocking on our door at 7.00 am, and started out by attempting to connect to the ECM management computer for the engine. There was no voltage getting to it, so he bypassed the system, and finally found the problem, and it was a duff relay switch.

It was a $ 5.36 part, and took him 2 hours to diagnose, but he was diligent and finally found the problem. A different technician came with a new switch, (as our original guy had to go on a call out), put it in and nothing worked. We sat there for 4 hours while the shop foreman was on the phone to the coach manufacturer, trying to trouble shoot the problem. Then the original technician came back and saw immediately that the second technician had installed the new switch incorrectly!!

We had been sitting on the grass bank, reading and snoozing, totally bored out of our skulls, and we eventually agreed to stay here overnight, so we could argue with Cummins Calgary tomorrow. Turns out none of what they did was necessary, and of course we want our money back.

So, we will leave here tomorrow, to points anew.

We did not take any pix.

Wildlife watch today was some pretty butterflies, a dragonfly which hovered around us all day, and we thought was a drone alien spy thing, a fluffy white tailed rabbit, and some big silver noisy birds with U.S. Air National Guard written all over them.