T@B Snags

As much as we love our perfect little T@B trailer… to be honest, it’s not exactly perfect.

Window Scratches

The first thing we noticed shortly after we got it home, were the scratches on all the windows. My assumption is that during the ‘detailing’ job at the dealership, they weren’t sufficiently soaked to get rid of the winter dirt before rubbing commenced.

Disappearing Trim

Shortly after arriving at Maryhill State Park (our 2nd day out on the road with the T@B) we were chatting with a few folks about the T@B and one of them pointed out the fact that we had no trim on the left side of the T@B at the back…. which explained why there were a ton of black marks on the back of the trailer (exceedingly difficult to remove, BTW) and perhaps the reason that other drivers were staying unusually far behind us on the highway.

As much as ‘whipping trim’ might be considered a beneficial feature, I guess we’ll find just how well T@B’s warranty program works.

UPDATE – May 24, 2009: Just talked to Maureen, the warranty lady at Valley RV in Westbank and she advises me that Dutchmen (T@B’s manufacturer), is ‘having trouble’ accepting my photograph of the missing trim and did I still have the trim? Uh, NO… it FLEW off in transit. She also expressed surprise at the problem – never having heard of this happening before – uh, if you bother to read T@B owners comments online, they’d KNOW that this isn’t the first case of disappearing trim. Furthermore, she didn’t even bother to mention the windows.

HELLO? Look left, look right, look left, look right. See the difference?

Argh.

Anyway, now they’re sending their own ’specialist’ over to take pictures.

Will keep you posted.

We’re T@Bbing Now

Well, we’ve joined the RV set.

Shown above is a picture of our new T@B trailer on the day we picked it up – 5 minutes down the road from the dealership. I’d never pulled a trailer, but that didn’t matter apparently – as Ed refused to drive out of the RV dealer’s lot.

OK, fine. “Gotta do this at some point, it might as well be now”, thinks I and honest to goodly, I could hardly feel the T@B behind us.

As to why to picture was shot only 5 minutes down the road — we stopped for lunch in Westbank at the Wok Box, a place we’d always wanted to try. It was GREAT, BTW.

After lunch, I drove the rest of the way home (about an hour) and NO problem until I had to back the thing into the driveway when I had a big case of deja vu.

Ed taught me how to drive a standard (about 33 years ago). At the point where I was stopped on the hill with the guy waiting behind me, I put it in neutral, pulled the parking brake and got out.

Same thing happened with the T@B. After a few unsuccessful attempts to back it into the driveway (WITH the nosey neighbour watching), I just got out. LOL.

A few days later, we borrowed a utility trailer from a friend and I practiced backing THAT up… now I should do better than Ed who managed to puncture 2 holes in our friend’s camper when he returned the trailer.

LOL.

Anyway, standby for our T@B adventures… coming REAL soon!