Appliance Maintenance
- Most all appliances in your RV need to have a yearly maintenance done.
- The manufacturer may deny warranty service if annual maintenance is not done
- Your refrigerator needs to be checked once a year and have the flame adjusted and the burner tube cleaned as well as having the spark gap checked. Both Dometic and Norcold have statements in their owner manual pertaining to having the maintenance done or it will void your warranty.
- You must level your coach when running your refrigerator if sitting for long period.
- Your furnace needs to be cleaned annually. Insects often enter the outside exhaust and make nests in the burner chamber.
- Your air conditioner needs to have the filters cleaned once a month and needs to be ran at least once a month even in the winter. If you leave it sitting and do not run it for a long period of time the fan will freeze up and will need to be taken apart and possibly replaced.
- Once a year your water heater needs to have the burner tube cleaned and the fuel air mixture needs to be adjusted. This will keep the black soot from forming above your water heater on the outside of your coach.
- You should have you L.P. gas system checked annually for leaks as well as proper operating pressure. You must have proper operating flow for your appliance to work correctly.
- Your generator needs to be started at least once a month and ran for 2 hours under 50% load. Gasoline has a rated shelf life of about 30 days and after that it starts to varnish and gel. This causes the carburetor to varnish and not allow fuel to the proper location. There is no way to clean or rebuild the carburetor you will need to replace it with a new one and that can be expensive.
