Yahoo Message Number: 30085 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30085)
Help! Has anyone had radiator problems.
Yahoo Message Number: 30088 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30088)
Hi, sorry to say but yes! 2006 Allure replaced in july 2006 this work done at Cummins Northwest. The leak was found while in the shop for slide . and overheating problems. We tried to get in at Country Coach, Junction City were told two months wait, they sent us to Cummins, we were in that shop for two weeks.
Yahoo Message Number: 30089 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30089)
Me too.
Coach is at Sacremento Showcase working to get radiator replaced.
Mine is out of warranty by about 49 days and the coach has only 13,000 miles on it. CC has not come through with any help. Radiator company that builds the radiator is the only one helping. He is going to replace the radiator directly. The replacement he claims will be much more sturdy and secured using rubber mounts. Fatigue was the cause of failure.
I am also trying to get my extended warranty to help as the labor for the removable and reasembling will be over $2,000.00. I am still without a radiator as I write this. Radiator shop has to build the radiator.
This has been very frustrating. CC and Showcase have not been very responsive. I did not expect that I would need to replace a radiator with so few miles and just over two years.
Jock Vargo
2005 Inspire 330
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Yahoo Message Number: 30116 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30116)
I just discovered a leak in mine and it has to be replaced also.
Kevin
05 Intrigue
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Yahoo Message Number: 30118 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30118)
Yes, lots of us! You can check this out by reading previous posts with this title.
We were with friends in a 2001 40' Intrigue who were stuck in Las Cruces, NM, last fall for 2 weeks getting their leaking radiator replaced. Wasn't an easy process. They missed Big Bend NP, and the Terlingua Chili Cook-Off with us because of it. They aren't "on the Forum" so their ordeal isn't among the many "posts".
Brad Ward
2000 Magna 5916
Yahoo Message Number: 30121 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30121)
I thought that I possibly had a radiator problem, because I had to keep adding coolant and had wet areas on one outside corner of the radiator.
After checking, I found out that all the hose clamps were on very loosely from the factory. I tightened the clamps a little and it still leaked over time, so I tightened the clamps again and the leaks stopped.
Last month Cat did a valve lash and reflash for me. I also had Cat pressure check the coolant system. They pumped the system up to 12 psi and left it there for an extended time and the psi held.
A few months ago I was at Wheelers RV in Las Vegas looking at CC motorhomes and almost every coach seemed to be leaking coolant. One coach even had a puddle of coolant under it on the ground.
You can probably damage the hoses if you over tighten, however it seems to me that CC is not getting the hoses tight enough.
Jim & Barbara
2005 40' Inspire #51225
Yahoo Message Number: 30130 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30130)
I recently had my CC Inspire at Freightliner and they found some of the clamps loose and tightened them. Have not checked since then but I have never had a leak.
Louis Gratton
2006 CC Inspire 51897
Yahoo Message Number: 30149 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30149)
Yes I have an Allure 2005 and had to replace my radiator about a year ago at Holland Motor Homes in San Diego I was told that they had problems with alum units and they changed to steel. The main problem I was having was leaking at bottom when I used the rear Jacks.
Yahoo Message Number: 30158 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30158)
This is interesting. I've never connected the dots on using the jacks with causing radiator leaks. I don't have jacks, and so far no radiator leaks (28K miles). I wonder if there is a connection? Do the jacks apply undue stress on the radiator when extended. Has anyone without jacks had a radiator leak?
Larry o3 Allure 30856
Yahoo Message Number: 30171 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30171)
Yep. My 06 Allure levels via the bags and doesn't have jacks. Radiator went out at 15,000 miles and 16 months. It all started, just like most of the others (slight leaks at various times) and I went through the hose clamp tightening ordeal, etc,. It finally threw up all over the Interstate just west of Chattanooga, Tenn. I put everything wet I could find into the radiator and limped back to Knoxville, Tenn. where the Buddy Gregg people did a great job of getting me a radiator in about 3 weeks and getting it installed. I can't say enough nice things about Roy Rolin, the Buddy Gregg service rep in Knoxville, He is outstanding as were the service techs. I had to throw away several hundred dollars worth of food that was in the Frig and drove the toad home to Texas. Four weeks later I flew back to Knoxville to pick it up. I encountered a lot of expense, headache, and heartache because of a bad radiator manufacture, but I've put 3,500 miles on the new radiator and it hasn't leaked a drop. Just hope that that you are in warranty as I was.
R. D. Vanderslice
Rockwall, Texas
06 Allure no. 31294
Yahoo Message Number: 30196 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/30196)
Larry,
We have friends with a 2001 40' Intrigue who had a radiator leak.
Brad Ward
2000 Magna 5916
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Yahoo Message Number: 31712 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/31712)
My 2006 inspire with the C-9 has always been losing a little coolant (1 gallon over 10,000 miles and now more like 1 gallon over 2,000 miles). I finally found the leak near the bottom of the radiator but I need to take it to a shop for "confirmation" before Country Coach will send out a new radiator. This whole thing is going to cost me tons of time and inconvenience, even if the leak does not get bigger!
I wonder why Country Coach did not do a recall and replace all these defective radiator?
Orlan Laron
Inspire 51701
Radiator went out at 15,000 miles and 16 months. It all started, just like most of the others (slight leaks at various times) and I went through the hose clamp tightening ordeal, etc,. It finally threw up all over the Interstate just west of Chattanooga, Tenn. I put everything wet I could find into the radiator and limped back to Knoxville, Tenn. where the Buddy Gregg people did a great job of getting me a radiator in about 3 weeks and getting it installed. I can't say enough nice things about Roy Rolin, the Buddy Gregg service rep in Knoxville, He is outstanding as were the service techs. I had to throw away several hundred dollars worth of food that was in the Frig and drove the toad home to Texas. Four weeks later I flew back to Knoxville to pick it up. I encountered a lot of expense, headache, and heartache because of a bad radiator manufacture, but I've put 3,500 miles on the new radiator and it
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