We had a service appointment at Oregon Motorcoach Center in Eugene, Oregon:

Several other Tiffins being serviced, which (along with our previous experience here) helps gives us confidence that they know what they’re doing:

Waiting room:

We had them replace our engine air filter, an important annual maintenance item. Plus got them to fix a noise with our driver-side bedroom slide-out.

Lastly, we got them to replace our chassis batteries, as they weren’t holding their charge well. Our original batteries:

New batteries (and nicely cleaned out):

Once done, they moved our coach so we could hook up our truck:

A nice easy half-day service visit.

The cup holders that are built in to our coach are a little small for some of our water bottles and travel mugs, so we added extended cup holders to enable fitting larger bottles:

Our coach has built-in hydraulic and air leveling systems, with a display that shows the level:

We pretty much always use hydraulic leveling, as it is more stable. In theory we just use Auto mode and it works… but sometimes on a rather unlevel site we have to switch to Manual to convince it to actually be level:

A useful addition to help check how level it is is a bubble level that shows two dimensions at once:

We put it on the floor to help see how level the coach is, and guide adjustments to get it level.

A minor addition to our coach is some hooks by the door for our hats. They are Command metal hooks, that use a convenient self-adhesive to mount without damage to the coach:

Our coach has a 150 gallon diesel tank, and gets about 7 miles per gallon, so we can use a fair bit of fuel in our travels.

We are glad that there is an option to save a bit of money: the Open Roads fuel discount card.

This service offers significant discounts off diesel fuel at select fuel stops, and enables paying at the pump, instead of having to go in to authorize the purchase (except in Oregon and Nevada).

It also includes an app that helps us find the discounted locations, and compare prices:

The detail page has additional information:

As a recent example, we filled about 76 gallons of diesel (half our tank capacity; we usually fill when it gets about halfway). The pump price was $376.66:

But we saved $92.82 on that fuel up, so “only” paid $293.77:

To learn more about Open Roads, take a look at this blog post and video on the Our Journey in Miles blog. They have a spreadsheet to help track the savings, too.

We don’t have a referral code or anything, so if you join, you could use theirs, or could enter “Jennifer Sinclair” as the referrer to give us credit.

One weak point in our coach is the door stop of the rear engine compartment. Twice I’ve had it break.

Here’s the rear door:

It is held closed with a couple of latches, that hook onto door stops like this (the left one):

Twice the right-hand one has broken off:

So I ordered some replacements from Tiffin, part number 5116094 (“REAR ENGINE DOOR STOP BRE 2016”):

I didn’t have any of the weather stripping padding, so I used some self-adhesive cupboard bumpers instead, which works fine:

I now have a couple more spare, so if it breaks again, I’ll be ready!