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Yahoo Message Number: 16687 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/16687)

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For those of you approaching 4 years with your Dometic side-by-side refrigerator, this is what the replacement part looks like when you get a microscopic piece of rust in one of the two orfices. The part costs $1200 new or $851 reconditioned plus labor (nine hours in our case) and shipping of $80 to Biloxi MI. It is a bear of a job replacing and our local repairman Mel said this is the last one of these that he will do. I do hope you have your extended warrenty to cover this incidental cost of traveling. Happy traveling

Ron and Molly, '01 Intrigue # 11262, San Diego

Yahoo Message Number: 16707 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/16707)

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Ron and Molly...thanks for the heads up about the frig...
However, did the repair fellow tell you WHY the rust accummulated there? Any suggestions from him as to how to avoid the problem? Since we're only a few coach numbers different from you, I figure I'd better learn from your $$$s!
Jan McNeill

2001 Intrigue 11320
Currently in Bend, OR

Yahoo Message Number: 16717 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/16717)

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Jan,

Hope you are having fun on the West coast.
I just returned this morning from the shop I use here and have the same problem. Not sure it's rust but the cooling unit has to be replaced and the dollars are about the same and Ron's. I have read on other Groups that rust and/or the fluid mixture used in these systems is the cause of this problem. Not sure how rust, if that is the problem, gets into a closed system. The fluid issue is caused be the unit being on but running on a VERY unlevel position. The chemicals seperate and somehow mess up but I did get the feeling that we would not have our units so unlevel that it would cause this to occur. So I have no idea why this happens. BTW, he had a older Pace Arrow with the same Dometic in there and was replacing the cooling unit on that MH.

My symptoms are as follows:

Will not make ice, fridge side stays in the mid 40"s, and the freezer stays about 15-18 degrees, ice cream will stay soft. At times, after driving some, it will work as normal for a few days and then mess up again. He indicated that driving could make the fluids work proper again but it would only work for a short period of time. And that is what mine is doing.

I am taking the coach to Bill Plemmons in Winston-Salem next Tuesday for the electrolysis repair and may just have them replace the cooling unit since they will have it for a couple of weeks.

I may consider a new fridge, about $4,300, so I will probably just have the cooling system replaced.

I follow a few groups and I am not aware that this is a common problem but would like to know if others are having the same problem. I would like to think we get more than 4 or 5 years out of these Dometic units.

Richard Aquino
2001 Intrigue

North Myrtle Beach, SC.


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