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Hurricane Hell

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Linda,

My, Oh my, your story sounds so familiar and I have been down your road many times. I will share with you my story and let you decide from there.
I have a '00 Intrigue with the C045 Hurricane and have been to hell and back with problems BUT......recently (fingers crossed) seem to have gotten mine fixed. You may disagree with me but LazyDays worked on mine 2 years ago with no success. I was on the verge of buying a new hydronic system (don't believe Hurricane is still available) but decided to give it one more try and went back to LazyDays as we were driving thru Florida.
Their tech evaluated my system (I told them that they had worked on it previously without any improvement) and quoted me $125 so I said "go ahead." They finished the work and...
.....told me the "quote was in error" and charged me $95. That was 2 months ago and it has been working perfectly. I have replaced every replaceable parts including fuel pump, compressor, nozzle, filters..... you name it. They found a clamp missing on a fuel line that was allowing air into the fuel stream.
LazyDays and the people at ITR (who sell the Hurricane) did not tell me this but I have noticed that the Hurricane is voltage sensitive. Prior to travel (and prior to my latest visit to LazyDays) I was trouble shooting the Hurricane in my detached garage and doing my usual parts exchange and turned on the heater to see if it would fire (it did) so I decided to let it run but then forgot about it. A month later I'm working in my garage and hear the heater fire up and surprised to find it putting out heat and no red lights. All this time I have been plugged in to a 15 amp shore power to keep the batteries up. We then left for a month in Florida and the heater failed the 1st night out and every night after that until we got to LazyDays.
Oddly, about this same time I learned about a '04 CC with 19,000 miles that had a interior fire (not related to the Hurricane) which was being parted out by a dealer in Illinois so, I bought that like-new Hurricane ($1,000) because I was CERTAIN mine would never be right and now, I've got a nice new Hurricane on the shelf that I may never use.
The Hurricane does require yearly maintenance and I now feel pretty good about mine. Have you spoken with Jim @ ITR (he's a great guy who is very capable and doesn't mind spending time on the phone with Hurricane owners).

Sorry to be so long winded but wanted to pass along my story.

Good luck.

Andy Zavodney

2000 Intrigue #10955
Andy

(330) 862.2752 (home)
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