On a curvey mountain road in Vermont (undivided around a blind curve and hillock) my rig went dead. Totally dark and dead, most harrowing 30 minutes of my life, lucky for me no one came along though we did deploy red emergency markers, hand held put on the roadway and flashlights pointing to the rig to make it visible. Found a way to roll it down the road a bit and off the path onto an approach to a field gate. Waited till dawn.
The culprit was faulty ground (underwhelming connection). In the light of day well off the roadway, I just sprayed and cleaned em up and yep it all worked fine, even the headlights were much much brighter. So we installed some very heavy duty grounding cables on engine to chassis, battery to chassis and yes every thing worked well for years and thousands of miles. While at it I also rerouted the starter wires so they would not get heat soaked and add too much resistance after a stop along the route. Oh and no help from the branding folks and the chassis folks kept pointing to the branding folks and that is the same old song that keeps repeating in this industry. NO unified single point of contact for warranty service guess the prices need to tripple for better design, implementation and build which they have yet nothing.
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RUSTIC is good.
Kudos to those who make Local, State & Federal Parks & Campgrounds possible and to those picking up the slack by Providing Private Campgrounds.
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