Finally, yesterday, the new tires were installed. I think we have learned our lesson with regard to tires.............Costco is not the place to go. As I mentioned the date code on the Michelin tires that Costco ordered was from March 2007. So the first mistake I made was to not do anything about them right away. I talked with Kirk at Freightliner and he questioned if the tires were in an air conditioned warehouse. I had no idea. I then misinterpreted the date code on the tires and thought that they were just 6 months old and that that would be okay. Later found out the code indicated that they were a year old.
The second mistake I made was to wait until a week before we were to leave to try to get tires ordered through Freightliner. That just was not enough time.
So here we are with lessons learned. The new tires are installed. They finished about 3:00 pm yesterday and we hit the road. We just wanted to spend a night at a full hookup and off of a parking lot with diesel trucks coming and going all day and night.
So we drove 35 miles, arrived at Tonepeh, Saddle Mountain RV park, and set up camp. Had a few problems with the electricity having too high a voltage. Our surge/electrical protector would shut off the electricity every time the voltage reached 132. The good news is that it was working and protected our electrical units. The bad news was the electricity to the rig kept shutting off. Barb figured out that we should change from 50 amp to 30 amp to see if that helped ......... and it did. We are okay now.
We leave this morning for Needles, CA for two nights.
Love and hugs,
Linda and Barb
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