Rob and Amy Harper

Not only did I find them, but Amazon even still sells them! Price has come down some. Five of them for $25. They literally snap right into place, use the existing wiring and dimmers, and they look great. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B012ZOI44C I tried to find pictures of what I took out, but since it's been 6 years, I've lost those pictures.

Are you looking for someone in the D/FW area that does repairs, or anywhere in Texas? I use a GREAT guy out of Kerrville, he comes to me. I haven't used him since downsizing, but he was amazing helping me with the coach when I needed a hand with something. I did use a mobile guy up in Dallas before I moved to the Hill Country back when I needed to have my AquaHot looked at, and he was really helpful and fair, I am sure I can find who it was if you need it. It might depend on what kind of repairs you are wanting done though, thoughts? Mike, I fully see us going back to something like we had later on in life. That Safari was just pretty much everything we wanted, other than needing some updates. I have the residential fridge in my garage we were going to install, and I LOVE your idea for updating the overhead lights, those would have been the two big items left on my list, next was going to be upgrading the steering gear. That's why I don't want to leave this group, I'm still soaking up info for when we get another Safari or Monaco later on.

Last night we were watching one of "Matt's RV Reviews" on YouTube. They are now an Integra dealer, and he was showing off their $400,000 40' tag axle coach. We were watching him go around the exterior and interior, and noticing how inferior the quality of the Integra was compared to our 2005 Safari. I told the wife, I'd rather spend $60-100k on another 2005-2006 Monaco and then dump $100k into it for a total of $160-200k than buy one of these new coaches for $400k I am still loving watching what you are doing with yours.

We used ours a lot. They are good for one day’s clothes at a time, or your sheets. One thing we had to learn is to only use a tablespoon of detergent at the most. And you need liquid softener. They work really well if you keep it within the boundaries of their ability. if anyone needs the chrome dryer vent kit, I have one. I will send it to you for the cost of shipping.

Thank you, we are still RV'ing, we just greatly downsized. We could not get the coach up to our RV parking (we are no longer full-timing) and wanted something we could keep at home and not pay storage fees for.

Just wanted to stop by and say farewell. We sold our coach two weeks ago. I did tell the new owners about this forum, hopefully they will join, they are very nice folks. They were specifically looking for a Monaco in the age range of ours, and said he looked at a bunch that were in bad shape. Anyway, happy trails everyone, I enjoyed the forum and the people here.

It sounds like you are not able to be in the coach, it sounds like you are getting info from your son. You'll have to ask him to please be detailed by what he means by "nothing". If he can plug a fan or something into an outlet and it works, not only is that not "nothing", but it tells us here a lot.

I have two RVs!

It wasn't plugged in. It is a long story, but let's say it's been to the body shop because someone hit it at the park - this took months to resolve, then it had to go to the tire shop, which took 6 weeks. I did not show either of these people how to disconnect the batteries while it sat, my fault.

My ATS was 15 years old, not 2. :) I believe it is really uncommon for them to fail, but my poor RV has been through a lot over the last few months. On these coaches it's a learning process for sure. This is my second motor home and I also have a travel trailer, been around boats all my life, family had RVs when I lived at home, but the Monaco systems are FAR more sophisticated than anything I've had before. What learned is to look at the exact issue - Do I have DC and no AC, AC and no DC, or is everything down. One we have those answers, it becomes far easier to hone in on the issue.

Or put a Trick-L-Start or Amp-L--Start in so that running the genny or connecting to shore power will charge the house and chassis batteries all at once. I've had both issues. No overhead lights, 12v, bypassed relay for salesman switch. Last week, no 120v or 240v - no A/C, no fridge, no microwave... had to replace transfer switch.

Thanks! It sounds like you have the unit I thought mine came with. I tore the TT apart trying to find the control box in the cabinet somewhere, and then support said mine is the one that only has the rooftop box and nothing inside.

FYI - I got the house batteries charged properly and all is well. That was it.

Mine is connected through USB to an Asus router. Keep in mind if you want to continue using the extender, the extender needs a good signal too. If you put it at the back of your coach, you haven't gained anything. If your Mobley/Asus setup is at the nose of the coach, your extender would go somewhere in the fridge to bathroom area. I'm an IT professional and set up wireless setups as part of what I do, and in my opinion you won't need an extender in the coach, in fact each time you hop to an extender, you cut your speed in half due to the fact that wifi is half-duplex, so in the end you'll be worse off without it. Where it might be somewhat useful is on the outside of the coach when you want a signal at a significant distance from where you are parked, it may be able to provide a better signal than you would have if you are some distance from the coach. @waterskier_1, You must have a different Wifi Ranger than I do. Mine is the Wifi Ranger 3, which only resides on the roof of our travel trailer. I have been talking to their support due to very poor performance, and all they have to say is "it probably has a bad board, for $89 we will send you the Wifi Ranger 4". I get better performance using my little, cheap, Hootoo travel router that I used for hotels before all this Covid mess.

Other than leaking, what else was wrong that it fixed? I'm just ready to not have to listen to that low air alarm for 5 minutes every time I start it!!