Sunday, April 17, 2016. David and Eugene brought Serenity into our local Ford dealership to get the oil changed and have a maintenance inspection completed as our usual choice cannot handle Serenity due to her size. The oil change was completed but came with a recommended service, the upper and lower ball joints are showing wear and should be replaced and the brake fluid replaced and lines flushed. Parts and labour alone are $1300.00 for the ball joints and then another $145 for the brake fluid flush. By the time all is said and done and the taxes added on the total bill is a whopping $1800.00. Luckily it's not absolutely necessary that it is completed right now so we'll wait and see how we can grow our bank account so we can handle this expensive repair.
We're also going to explore our options, one of which is to see if our usual garage can accommodate this repair in any form or fashion. If not, David knows of a place through his job that likely can handle it. What we're banking on is that either of these places can likely do the repair for less. Just how significant the difference will be is the question we can't answer for the moment.
Such is the life of a vehicle owner.
Maybe the virtual world will offer some assistance...
And we just discovered where the sani-dump station is in Coquitlam, it's just down the road from the storage lot that we have Serenity parked in, it's at the Go West RV Centre. However, they are only open Monday to Friday, 10am - 3pm with an estimated charge of $15-25 to use as listed on Don's Camping List - Non-Park Sanidumps.
Thanks for stopping by.
Happy Camping Folks!
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