Damn that was an expensive stop!

My last blog had us still at Canyon Lake and being towed to Cummins in San Antonio, Texas. While the RV was in the shop we stayed at our son’s house about 45 minutes away.

It took five days before I got the dreadful call from Cummins to inform me that we had leaking fuel injectors which were causing the problem. Four of the six were leaking significantly, one was slightly leaking and the other was marginal. Therefore the only logical choice was to replace all six of them.

We drove over one afternoon to pick up some needed items from the RV since our stay with our son would be longer than we thought. Good thing we did as we discovered that the technician had somehow broken our lighted exterior door assist handle. Of course they agreed to pay for it but the part is (sigh) on back order.

About four days later Cummins called to say it would be ready the next afternoon. I told them I’d just pick it up the following morning  in case there were any unexpected issues. Sure enough I was later informed that they found a possible oil leak during the test drive and would have to clean it up then do another test drive.

Had we planned to pick it up that afternoon it wouldn’t have been ready until San Antonio’s primetime for rush hour. Thankfully the next call we received explained they cleaned the underneath of the engine block and could find no oil leak. The conclusion was it was most likely residual oil from the repair. Residual oil is not uncommon in this type of repair.

We picked it up the next morning only to discover yet another snafu. For some reason the tow truck driver had removed our tow hitch and when he put it back on he installed it backwards. We only discovered this because the tow hitch had obviously been dragged down the road and damaged the steel ends that attach to the car.

With the help of a Cummins service guy we put the hitch on correctly and determined it was safe to tow the car even with the damaged ends. I will replace them before we go anywhere else. Finally we hooked up the car and happily left San Antonio. The RV was running great and we drove three hours over to our old home town of College Station.

Sharon and  I sure hope all of this is now behind us and we can look forward to our future travels…

NOTE: Todays pictures are from our stay in San Antonio while our RV was being repaired.