Yearly Mtce Stop = To Do List

Oct 25 - 27/15. Weather is stuck in the 80's. 1 day of showers coming, but temp is not going to drop.

We say it's our yearly mtce stop but come to think of it we didn't come in for service last year!   

When you take your house down the road there is always something that needs attention...... Your going to tell us that you don't take your house down the road and there are always things to repair on it too, absolutely.   Alliance Coach RV service still seems to be the best shop we have found so far.  We pulled in before lunch on Sunday set up on a campsite and took the rest of the day easy since we have a 7:30 a.m. appointment Monday with our service advisor who will schedule our to-do list with the technicians.

That means for a couple of days setting the alarm clock for early mornings.  The coach has to be ready to move in the shop each day for 7ish.   A couple of years ago we had our front roof AC/heat pump replaced and it's time to have the rear one replaced.  With the heat wave in Florida we will be glad we did.   

Alliance in Wildwood, Florida has the following, so all you need to do is bring your Credit card!!!!!

Seriously it's great that you can stay in your coach, get work done every day on it and you get it back at 6 pm on your campsite.   This time we only need to stay a couple days. 

• 42 Service Bay
• 16 Outdoor Bays
• 2 x 65 ft Paint Booths
• In House Cabinet Shop
• In House Metal Fabrication Shop
• In House Upholstery Shop
• 40 Site Campground W/50 Amp, Water, Wi/Fi, & Laundry 

Wildwood Delight

Weather - beautiful sunny warm 80, night cool still 50's

There is not much in the little town, in fact it looks like it got left behind. But sometimes you happen across the best little places.  We stopped for lunch at Cotillion Southern Cafe.  Green fried tomatoes, Train wreck, chicken 'n waffles, grits, junkyard dawg, Dixie cavier and on and on the menu goes. 

Then desserts - pies and cakes and bread puddings so beautiful to look at and better to eat!  There goes the diet!  Food was definitely a 5 out of 5.  

Alliance Coach Inc.

Wildwood, Florida is in a cool spell so it's just as well we are at Alliance Coach for the week getting our list of maintenance items completed for the year.  We came here last year and knew this would become a yearly visit.  This place is so technically qualified you want to save things that need repair for them.  Yesterday we had a new vent put in , a new wiper seal on the one slide, a new toilet seal and one tail light repaired. Today they started on new topper awnings for two slides.  As well; we are in the body shop having our front and back caps repainted.  Always a list of things just like a house.  Yes, your right it is in fact our house on wheels!  Look way in the back right bay - that's our coach. 

Service Bays - Center in the Back is our Coach

Russell Stover Candies in Wildwood, Florida

 January 18, 2013

Well I think Billy had found his place that he could die and go to heaven!!!!  Just down the road from the Alliance Coach service center was a Russell Stover Candies Outlet.     We had to visit a couple of times and load up on armfuls of sugar!!!  It was so funny while I was looking up and down the aisles Billy was tasting samples.  Every time I tried to talk to him his mouth was full of delectable treats.  He was the happiest I have ever seen him. haha

Billy hiding amongst the candie

Rosey with a shopping cart

Wildwood, Florida - Alliance Coach

January 9 - 19, 2013  Florida warmer than normal 80 to 85; then last two days cooled down to 65.
A whole ten days spent at a service center for motorhomes....... 

Campground at Alliance

Don't fret we were not in mechanical trouble it's just we had a list of items that needed maintenance work and to get professional recreational vehicle places to do the work is not that easy.  We talked to Monaco and they suggested going to Alliance Coach in Wildwood, Florida.  This place is a 5 star service center.   They have 42 bays to work on anything you can think of on your coach, inside and out; including a body shop and paint booth.  They also have 40 campsites right on site so they come and take your rig to work on it for the day and return it at night for you to sleep in.   They understand full timers and wanting to watch and stay with your rig.  We had four items completed, and one of them took a week so we were not too surprised that it took ten days.  Here's the list of fix its that were beyond Billy's expertise: installation of a new wiper slide seal on the drivers' side slide, new sending unit for the oil pressure gauge, new heat pump unit in front roof area and the door window was removed and defogged and reinstalled.  Sorry we are not going to share the cost of the final bill however; it was below what we estimated after doing the research and yes the shop time is $120 per hour!  Our only "but" is that it is our house on wheels and when you take your house down the road your bound to make repairs.  It was definitely a good experience and we will return in the future for other things, the professionalism and convenience was better than any place we have been before.   Talking to fellow RV'ers here was interesting and enlightening..... there is always someone else with a much, much, much larger bill!!!   Approximately half of the campers here were full timers too.  That is the most we have run into since we have been on the road. 

Campground of motorhomes waiting for service