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Drat and bother, need to repair some fiberglass

September 25, 2014, 07:19:33 pm

We did a quick weekend trip, I had to leave early and my DW got Moby allllmost all the way out of the campground before she found a stump hiding in the innocent looking bushes on the passenger side, cracking the bay door with the water heater, bending the heck out of the heater cover in the process. I could glass it up so it's watertight, but it wouldn't be pretty. No, it would be downright ugly, it would.. So it's at a shop near here, and in a couple weeks we'll have a nice pretty bay door to reinstall, aalong with the new Atwood cover I picked up. While they're at it, they will fix a small amount of much older damage to the same door, thus getting rid of the only other body damage to our fine fine 25 year old coach. Moral to the story is, watch out for innocent looking brush alongside the campground road!

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Reply #1 – September 25, 2014, 07:58:06 pm

Jay,
Stumps are not the only thing that jumps out of no where, can name a few.

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Reply #2 – September 26, 2014, 12:05:41 am

Sometimes, it is almost a relief to get the "kiss" out of the way and under your belt.  It happens to all at one point or another. 

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Reply #3 – September 26, 2014, 01:14:59 am

I "KISSED" the  concrete wall with my right front corner on the entrance feeding into the electronic pay booth on the IL. Toll-road feeding into the Kennedy expressway in Chicago. It's a TIGHT fit, I ALMOST made it.
This was the FIRST time I drove the coach.
 As bad as the sound and shutter was when I made contact, the look on my Wife and daughters faces was even more remember-able. The words out of my daughter mouth "I though you were too close" will never be forgotten.

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Reply #4 – September 26, 2014, 09:40:51 am

I prefer to call these sorts of things something such as "Character Marks." (Similar to the "Character Lines" that appear on our faces as we gain life experiences!)

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Reply #5 – September 26, 2014, 09:57:45 am

HAR! Our poor old SOB had more "character" than it knew what to do with...

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Reply #6 – September 26, 2014, 10:51:59 am

I am re-reading this entire thread ... and especially the "Title".  There was some major "kissing" going on with our coach earlier this summer ... and I will state for the record that "Drat and bother!!" was most definitely NOT the sort of vocabulary to be heard anywhere near us.  (Laughing hysterically ... )  I cannot allow it to be put into print on this Forum. 

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