2 hours ago, JDCrow said:

I’m with you on the 36’ thing. I like that I can turn my Dip in a gas island, but really my heart is set on a 40’ tag at this point. It’s logistics now before we head that direction. 
 

I’d like stay Monaco, there are some models that are 40’ tag, with big HP, I saw a HR that had a 500 DD which would be insane.

Country coach is also an option, as they have 40’ tag. Heck they even have a 37’ tag, if you can find one, only 25 made. (Sunset Bay)

Our 40' 09 Dynasty has the Cummins 500 HP ISM engine.  It pulls our 2017 Escalade with no problem.

A wiring work-around just to have headlights (safety issue?) on a high end motor home.  Unbelievable.

We have the same problem except neither of our headlights work.  Our coach had been at Lazydays (Tampa) for two months now to get this problem resolved and fixed.  Must be a really hard job, huh?

6.5  Only sold it because I got tired of replacing the diesel injector pump.  A real PIA job.

I love the way the low setting on the exhaust brake works on our dynasty.  It interfaces with the the Alison and is perfect for rolling hills terrain.  I hope you didn't take your coach to the Cummins in Tampa.  That shop is a bunch of duds.

We started out with a Sportsmen 33' travel trailer with bunk beds, pulling it with a diesel GMC Suburban.  After a couple years we moved up to a 96 Holiday Rambler Endeavor DP with a single slide.  We put more than 100,000 miles on the HR over the next 20 years driving around the U.S. on various vacations with 3 or 4 of our kids.  The kids are all gone now and we upgraded last summer to the 09 Dynasty and sold the HR.  Our Dynasty floorplan (Bishop IV) has the optional computer station instead of the extra sofa.  It's perfect!  IMO, there's really nothing, worth paying for, in any of the newer coaches that the Dynasty doesn't have.  We'll keep this coach until we become too old to travel. 

We found a solution to this problem.  We moved to southwest Florida.

All I can rememberf is that I ordered a new motor last summer and it worked.    I ordered Part# 50.338 from them.  I do remember something about a certain model no longer being supported.

MCD sent me this instruction sheet.

MotorDriveGearRetrofit 12-27-2018.pdf

We have no MCD remotes.  Control of the shades is thru the switches on the cabinet above the driver and others.  There is no "ignition on" control for the windshield shade that I'm aware of.  The two front (driver and pax) side suncreens are manual and the front sunscreen is controlled by a rocker on the control pad left of the driver.  The main coach screens are controlled by switches on each side of coach or all at the same time from switch above driver.   I know all the main coach blackout shades can be controlled at the same time from above the driver.  I don't remember the specifics and I can't check because Lazydays has taken possession of our coach for an unknown period of time.  There are several people here who have 09 Dynastys.  Someone must know exactly how they operate.  MCD did walk me thru the programming several months ago.

Ask the girl at MCD.  She told me how to do it.  I have instructions but I can't get to them right now.  I think my wife pushed/managed the Cockpit Blackout Switch (above the driver) while I worked the little button on the short pigtail from the shade.  It's been a while, can't remember.  It's a little complicated the first time you try to do it.

Lazydays (Tampa) has had our coach almost as long as we've had it.  So I can't go look at our switches and can only speak from memory.  I believe the blackout shades (front and both sides) are controlled by the switches on the cabinet above the driver.  The front sunscreen is controlled by a rocker switch below the trans control.  I think the two side window sunscreens are strictly manual.  I just replaced the pax side shade motor.  I got the replacement motor from MCD, an Airxcel Brand, 3303 North McDonald Street McKinney, TX 75071, Office: 972.548.1850, Tech/Parts: 574.247.9235 Fax: 972.542.4881.  I ordered Part#50.338 Switch Motor $155.00+shipping.  I spoke with Kandace Ontiveros.  I sent my order to kontiveros@airxcel.com.  It was an easy job and the motor fit.  I didn't have the original to look at as it was missing when we purchased the coach.  MCD sent me the new motor which included programming instructions.  I remember pushing a button, hearing a beep, lowering the shade to where you want, and thne letting go of the button and maybe back up to where you want or something like that.  Unfortunately, those instructions are in our coach up at Lazydays.  And, if I remember right, I had to wind the sunscreen up manually before I screwed the screws on the ends back on and snapped the double shade unit (one with a motor and one without) back into place.  I can't remember why, but I had to undo and rewind it.  I think the seller had reversed the two shades or something weird.  Sorry, I can't be more help.

Technical Support

www.Airxcel.com

kontiveros@airxcel.com 

Don't they mount onto the bottom of the side mirrors?

I'm looking at the propellerless drones.

I did this a few days after we bought our first coach more than twenty years ago.  It rolled back off the jack stands and the rear leveler jacks punched completely through the asphalt pavement.  It broke one leveler and two springs on the other. 

Just now, GranPrix said:

our coach has shades made by "The Right Track" in Crofton, MD.  great service.

On mine they just snap into metal clamps.  One toward each end.  Just pull down while rotating slightly.  Then unplug or undo the two wires.  I'd go look at our coach but Lazydays has decided they like it so much they've kept it for going on two months now. 

Camping World out of Dover, FL has a Mobile Service.  I used them to replace a slide motor (on a 96 HR Endeavor) a couple months ago.  They came to my house in North Port.

888-451-4197

813-696-3390

813-279-3466

I just replaced the motor on our 09 Dynasty electric suncreen roller shade for the passenger window.  I ordered the replacement motor from MCD which is somewhere in the Dallas area.  Fairly easy repair.  I found the company name on the old motor when I removed it.  Yours may be different.  Here's the MCD order form.

Replacement Part-Shade Order Form 10.2019 Interactive.pdf

I've used this - from Amazon:  Novagard 02-MR4103-10C1 NovaFlex Metal Roof Sealant - 10.3 oz. Tube, Silver Metallic

Curt makes one that can be placed out of sight.  Changes, when necessary, are made using a smartphone app.

Great job!

I second the Lithium battery suggestion.  Far superior batteries.  I converted my golf cart to Lithium.  No more corrosion.  No more water refilling.  

My bedroom slide on the pax side has serious cracking on the outside underside where the two rollers are.  It's now at Lazydays (Tampa) who are going to give me an estimate to install the guardian plates - someday, I hope. 

7 hours ago, tomevansfl said:

Good luck with Lazy Days in Tampa. I have heard many people that have had poor luck with them. I’ve heard many say they gave good service.
 

However, I’ve never used them so I have no experience with them. I live in Orlando so they’re too far away. 

There's not a lot of places that work on things like slideouts and major electrical problems.  Lazydays is actually in Seffner right off I-4.  Where do you take your coach for big repairs?

My old 96 Holiday Rambler Endeavor did that.  Annoying.  I took the bulb out as a short term fix.

I've also had good luck with Rust Reformer paint.