It never fails … We got most things ready last night and this morning were looking to get an early start. Diconnected everything and Karen started to bring in the slides. Main slide, entertainment center slide, and the bedroom slide. Oops !! bedroom slide won’t come in !*?&# The best laid plans of mice and men. I won’t bore you with all the details but we actually stayed calm and I started making some phone calls. First to our local dealer – Don’s RV in Ceres CA. Jeff started to explain to me how to manually retract the slide. I didn’t get a warm and fuzzy but he did give me the phone number of Glendale RV in Canada (the manufacturer of our Titanium 5th Wheel). After spending an hour on the phone troubleshooting it was ascertained that the slide controller was dead, it was initially wired wrong at the factury which probably caused the controller to fail, and that I needed to buy the appropriate square head screwdriver to remove the valence in the bedroom in order to use a cordless drill to manually retract and extend the bedroom at our next location. After an hour or so, we found the necessary tools but the cordless drill we bought needed to be charged. Borrowed a cordless drill from the staff at Pony Express RV Resort and finally got on the road 3 hours late. Check out time at Pony Express was noon and we made it by 1 minute but they were nice enough to let us know that they would not charge us if we were a bit late. I also called Grizzy Park RV in West Yellowstone to let them know that we might be late checking in. Made great time and the office was still open when we got to West Yellowstone. Glendale was unable to find a replacement part for us in Utah, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming so we have to manually open and close the bedroom slider till we get home in a week or so.
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