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Windshield wiper adjustment

Yahoo Message Number: 75626
It started raining this afternoon and will rain all day tomorrow during my drive from Nashville, TN to Greensboro, NC. We are completing our drive from Premier RV Servicers in Junctions City, OR where we purchased our new 2006 Intrigue (Ovation II). After eleven and a half years in a 2000 Allure there are a lot of things for me to learn about operating everything in this coach. One of them is how to adjust the windshield wipers. They are too high on the windshield (in my opinion) and the one on the drivers side slaps past the left of the windshield. I have loosened the large nut on each and pulled the wiper arms down so they are level with the bottom of the windshield. When I turn on the wipers it only takes two or three swipes for the left one to be off the left side of the windshield again.

Can anyone tell me how to make a permanent adjustment? A second question is where the Hydro-Hot for the front of the coach is located and what might be the reason it doesn't come on? I haven't found a fuse for it?
I'll have a lot more questions as time goes on, but right now I have to arm wrestle with Martha to see who gets to start out driving tomorrow.

Gene and Martha Merryman
2006 Intrigue #12005

Re: Windshield wiper adjustment

Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 75629
We had a similar experience on our Intrigue in a snow storm. After you loosen the nut, you need to pull the wiper base toward you and reposition it on the knurl. One or two grooves toward the passenger side should work. Be careful. Our knurl broke and we had to reorder from the supplier. I would call Premier to get full instructions on how to handle.

S Brandt, '06 Intrigue, #11964

Carrier & Sons - Excellent Experience

Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 75630
Hi Everyone,

I'm back after being gone for awhile from this board (and my motorhome). I recently took my motorhome to Carrier & Sons after my motorhome had been sitting at Motorcoach Country Club in Indio, Calif for the last two years. Needless to say, my coach sitting in the desert for the last two years was not good for my motorhome. I had a long list of things that needed to be repaired including a new refrigerator coil and a new coil for my Hydro Hot (very expensive). Quite a few plastic parts had to be replaced due to the high temperatures (even though I left my air conditioner on in my coach while I was gone).
I spent 4 work days at Carrier & Sons having two and half pages of items repaired, etc. Carrier & Sons was awesome as they have always been for me. I have been coming to them since Country Coach recommended them to me in 2004 when CC could not work on all the items that needed to be repaired. Even though I have to drive a 1000 miles to go see them, it is well worth it as I have not had good luck with Cummins Cal Pacific in Irvine or Holland Motorhomes in San Diego.
What I like best about Carrier & Sons is that they do what they say will do in the time they quoted and what I consider a reasonable price compared to others such as Premier, Oregon Motorcoach, Holland Motorhomes, etc. I have used them for eight years now and never had any problems with them and they have never had to go back and re-do anything they have done ( can't say that for others I have used). The only other good experience I have had compared to this, is when I have had to use Mike Simple for emergency repairs (electric toilet will not work; refrigerator boad went out, etc.).

Rick Barnette,
36', 2004 Allure,
31018
 

Windshield Wiper Adjustment

Reply #3 –
Yahoo Message Number: 75631
Gene and Martha,

Repositioning the wiper arms is very easy, that is if you can get the windshield wiper arm off of the splined post. The longer they have been on the post without having been removed, the harder it will be to get them off. You may need to use a gear puller. You can get a simple small inexpensive gear puller (probably less than $5.00) from most tool supply places such as Sears, Northern, Harbor Freight, etc. My coach is less than a year old and I had one wiper arm pop right off. The other required the puller. Good luck.

R. D. Vanderslice
Sob