25 August
We made it to Bangor. Now that we're here I can write about why we cut our stay short in Canada. While on Newfoundland the turbo on the RV's engine started giving us problems. Initially the problem was a very annoying high pitched whine. The turbo is needed to climb hills by kicking in only when needed to boost the engine's power. Without it, we poke up hills and not with any safe speed. Well the turbo stopped working for a while and we limped to Bauline East. Roger was able to find out on line that occasionally the turbo will reset when the engine gets cool. Fortunately that was the case for us. However not knowing when it would fail completely we decided to take the ferry soonest off Newfoundland. Once we got back to Nova Scotia we started calling Mercedes/Dodge dealerships trying to find a Sprinter tech. The earliest we could get an appointment was this coming Friday, the Friday before a long weekend. So we decided to head towards the USA and see if we could find a dealership that could get us in sooner. Tomorrow we have an 8:30 am appointment at a Bangor ME dealership. The good news is that the turbo only stopped working one other time, so we got lucky. We're camped for the night at a place about 10 miles from the dealership, so we'll be able to make it there with or without the turbo. Hopefully the dealership will have the part to fix it and we'll be back on the road again.
Needless to say, Roger hasn't slept soundly because his toy has been acting up. This will all be history soon.
We did get to take a nice bike ride today. The weather was "lovely" today, 75 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Same weather forecast for tomorrow. Sleeping tonight without the a/c again, although we did switch blankets because it's not supposed to get as chilly tonight.
We made it to Bangor. Now that we're here I can write about why we cut our stay short in Canada. While on Newfoundland the turbo on the RV's engine started giving us problems. Initially the problem was a very annoying high pitched whine. The turbo is needed to climb hills by kicking in only when needed to boost the engine's power. Without it, we poke up hills and not with any safe speed. Well the turbo stopped working for a while and we limped to Bauline East. Roger was able to find out on line that occasionally the turbo will reset when the engine gets cool. Fortunately that was the case for us. However not knowing when it would fail completely we decided to take the ferry soonest off Newfoundland. Once we got back to Nova Scotia we started calling Mercedes/Dodge dealerships trying to find a Sprinter tech. The earliest we could get an appointment was this coming Friday, the Friday before a long weekend. So we decided to head towards the USA and see if we could find a dealership that could get us in sooner. Tomorrow we have an 8:30 am appointment at a Bangor ME dealership. The good news is that the turbo only stopped working one other time, so we got lucky. We're camped for the night at a place about 10 miles from the dealership, so we'll be able to make it there with or without the turbo. Hopefully the dealership will have the part to fix it and we'll be back on the road again.
Needless to say, Roger hasn't slept soundly because his toy has been acting up. This will all be history soon.
We did get to take a nice bike ride today. The weather was "lovely" today, 75 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. Same weather forecast for tomorrow. Sleeping tonight without the a/c again, although we did switch blankets because it's not supposed to get as chilly tonight.
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