Howdy everyone,
A RV trip from hell drove us from RVing a few years back (aside from no slideout, or ac or water and alarms that would not shut up) it was a perfect trip to Virginia Beach.
Our 2015 Solero has been winterized and mothballed with a dead battery for a while .
But we are determined to use our virtually never driven (except to church ) unit.
Any precautions we should take trying to start Old. Bessie up? Aside from spiders and wasps nests.
I would appreciate any thoughts .
RH
welcome to the forum its a great place to get your questions answered. The first thing I would do is pull (out of the RV) the chassis battery and coach battery and charge them and the load test if good I would reinstall. While that was going on I would fill the potable water system and sanitize with bleach or other sanitizer for 24 hr. Using a air compressor I would blow out the water heater and frig outside area. Lastly I would start the engine and allow it to warm up slowly I would also shift thru the gears during this time to circulate tranny fluid. Good luck.
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welcome to the forum its a great place to get your questions answered. The first thing I would do is pull (out of the RV) the chassis battery and coach battery and charge them and the load test if good I would reinstall. While that was going on I would fill the potable water system and sanitize with bleach or other sanitizer for 24 hr. Using a air compressor I would blow out the water heater and frig outside area. Lastly I would start the engine and allow it to warm up slowly I would also shift thru the gears during this time to circulate tranny fluid. Good luck.
Thanks ... Sea Dog... we have gone from a pop up to a travel trailer to a class A to a class C to our Solera ... but have never let anything sit this long ... too many cruises and trips to Europe make RVing hard work lol .... Cheers!
Only thing I would add would be to pull all your fuses for the coach and mark which is for which, turn off all the breakers, THEN install the batteries, put the fuses back in one at a time, if all good. Plug into shore power and turn breakers on one at a time.
Save you some troubleshooting in case you had mice make a meal of some of your wiring.
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2021 GMC 1500
Anderson WDH
Only thing I would add would be to pull all your fuses for the coach and mark which is for which, turn off all the breakers, THEN install the batteries, put the fuses back in one at a time, if all good. Plug into shore power and turn breakers on one at a time.
Save you some troubleshooting in case you had mice make a meal of some of your wiring.
Lovely...thanks...we have a lot of critters down here in Virginia for sure.
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