After getting to watch our coach be built, and waiting for it to come in, we made it official on Valentine’s Day 2018. We drove up the night before and stayed at a state park, then got up in the morning and headed to the dealer. We got in and started our walkthrough with the shop foreman. We obviously have had an RV before so we didn’t go over the basics, but still had a ton to learn with the bus. We had come up the weekend before to look the coach over and see it in person fully finished out for the first time, so we had a head start on Pre-Delivery Inspection.
Once we finished up with the paperwork, the move-in began. They backed our 5th wheel up next to our new coach so we could start moving our stuff in to the bus. We had fun trying to figure out where things should go, only to keep moving things around for years to come. It took us the rest of the day and into the evening getting things put away.
We also were trying to use everything we could to see if we needed anything worked on the next day before we started our trip back to our home base. Testing the washer and dryer, dish washer, etc. We didn’t do any heavy washing or anything which ended up being a good thing. In the morning we were wondering why the gray tank was not showing it was empty even though we had the valve open all night. Come to find out, someone in RedBay had the handles flipped and we had the black tank open all night.
After having a few things worked on, we decided to stay at a Jellystone overnight as we didn’t leave the dealer till rush hour and didn’t want to make my first drive in the bus be in the evening. During our trip to the park, we had some heart pumping experiences when our door decided to open up while traveling on the highway. Luckily we had the door locked, but it still opened enough to scare us enough. It seems that PTL installed some thicker rubber bumpers on the coach door, they go between the door and screen door, that made it difficult to shut the door. We were wondering why the salesman was slamming our door so hard. He didn’t know of the issue, and neither did Tiffin at the time, he was just doing so to get the door to shut. They later sent out some shorter bumpers, but what a shocker on my first time driving the bus. The next morning we got up and made it to our home base, my knuckles could finally start getting some blood back in them.