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Hello everyone,  our names are Paul and Pam and we just registered to your site today.  Paul is what he calls computer illiterate, so I will need to post everything for him. Now I'm not real sure that he is really illiterate, or just really smart to get me to do all his typing.  Anyway, we have a 2004 quad slide Newell with an Acqua Hot, washer dryer, and a whirlpool tub that we will attempt to winterize today.  The winters get cold, already had nights below freezing, so we need to get moving on getting this done.  We have the coach in a building with 50amp, but it is non heated and the power goes out quite often in the winter and spring. We live out in the country, so the power company is a bit slow on fixing the older power lines when they fail. We are open to any advise you can provide for winterizing our coach. 

Thank you.
Pam  (AKA - Paul)

Hi all, 

I’m guessing many of you have blinds similar to mine; the manufacturer is Somfy, they are motorized fabric horizontal blinds.  I’ll post a picture below. 

Occasionally, specks of dirt or (God forbid) dead bugs/flies get trapped inside the blinds.  In our six months of owning the coach, we’ve just kind of learned to live with it. Until today; that was my project. Long story short, I brought an air hose inside the coach and thought I’d give that a try. It works absolutely perfect. With about 30 pounds of air,  you can start in the middle of the shade and blow the particles out to either side.  It worked absolutely perfect! And I was surprised at how much stuff was actually trapped in each blind when I started looking at them in detail. 

Bryan

I started the newell up to put it in heated shop a bit ago. It has Bennett air shifter with toggle switch for gear changing. It shifted into reverse ok but will not shift back to neutral etc. the main thing that has changed is that it is now 30 degrees. So I’m stuck here in the driveway by myself with no one to help trouble shoot!! At least I’m not on the road

anyone planing a trip for the big tent show in 2018?

Please let me know if any of you are at Miami, OK - we are surrounded by new and less-than-new Newells!  Plan to take a quick factory tour, grab parts for automatic transfer switch and head out by noon if possible... would love to chat with some of you if you are here.  We have to be in Las Vegas by Sunday and still have 20 hours to drive! :-(  (where is the Time Travel button on this thing?)

Hello everyone,

I'm glad to have found this site. Sounds like there is allot of knowledge within the group and great to hear about all of the assistance given to the newbee's 

I Just became the owner of a 2008 Newell 4 slide #1223. I have been looking at all sorts of motorhomes for a couple of years and no matter how hard I tried to be "thrifty" I just could not buy one of the mass produced class a or b's. Was interested in the Prevost lines but when I found the Newells it was just the kind of quality I was looking for. Picked up 1223 from the factory with a 2 year warrantee and have been very impressed with the factory folks so far. I pick up the coach on the 20th and will be cruising close to the factory for a few days checking everything out and then its off to the great adventure. 

Hope to see you along the way.

Best to all,

Mike Mandall

Howdy Gurus,

I wanted to start a discussion on next years rally if we decide to have it.  

i little background.  planning rallys is a never please all for time and place.  

so far as official newellguru rallys we have had them

Spearfish, SD
Table Rock, AR
Lake Tahoe, CA
then twice in Ruidoso, NM

we have had anywhere from 32 coaches to 5 coaches.  

all were incredibly fun. 

we dont charge anything for the rally and you just cover your own expenses.  we have usually done potlucks most nights and tech sessions during the days

in addition there are other newell get togethers.  steve bare does his in alabama and we went last year and had a ball.  i think he said over the course of a month there were like 15 newells that came and went.  when we were there i think there was 5 of us.  

and others do informal get togethers as discussed in the forum.  

i have done them with planning committees, and i have done them totally with me deciding everything.  you guys are like herding cats....ha

several of you have contacted me about doing regional guru rallys and that has been fine with me.  i do ask a few simple things that i will be glad to discuss with you if you would like.  

so.....can i get some discussion from you guys about if you are interested in doing one next year.  

picking where is challenging.  far west coast doesnt seem to work for most gurus.  far east coast the same.  so somewhere in between.  

some folks are date constrained and some are not.  when i plan them they are in early to mid june.  

when finding and negotiating a location park for us to be at, it is challenging as to what to tell them the numbers might be.  if we have 5, it is easy, and discount probably not much.  if it is a much larger number, then potentially better discounts and use of facility and such.  if we all want to be together we have to block out numbers of spaces.  it is much nicer when we are by each other.  

so.....ideas, thoughts and such?

ultimately the former executive in me comes out of retirement and will make a decision.  

thanks

tom

yesterday my daughter sent me a text with a picture of a 40ft prevost country coach blocking the main street in wickenburg az where she works and 20 miles from us.  he had come out of a parking lot and was entering the street and got caught on the dip i guess.  

this morning she called me and said the same bus was stalled on the side of the road about ten miles from our house 

so i hopped in my car and went to see if i could help.  it was a man probably in his 70's by himself that was a cowboy.  a roper.  

he had been pulling his horse trailer and had an incident with it that damaged it and where when it jackknifed on the back of the coach.  the rear bumper was also pulled out where he had caught the day before.  

when i drove up it was idling and sounded like a metal bucket of rocks was being rattled.  we talked and he was having a variety of problems.  his key would start the engine but not turn on any gauges on the dash.  the rattling was there, the coach in the rear was way down and not raising up at all.  

the rattling was the alternator.  it was literally coming apart.  the rear housing was loose.  it was no good.  so he just cut the belt off which was totally cracked and bad anyway.  i told him to just run the generator with merge on and he could get the 15 miles to where he was headed.  

he needed a new alternator

the key problem i had no idea and he could drive it the way it was.  

he ran at high idle for a long time and the rear did not come up.  he decided to head off anyway.  it looked like it was trying to do a wheelie.  the front end was way up and the rear wayyyy down.  i hope he made it ok.  

i gave him my name and number and to call me if he needed.  

i think the reason he got caught on the street the day before is that he wasnt getting to ride height.  

tom

Just wanted to say hello to everyone and I hope that I may be of help when I can and I hope to learn when I can't and become more familiar with the Newell Coaches.

I'm new to your site and have always been a fan of the quality of the Newell Coach. At present I have a '94 Foretravel Unihome 36'. I know some of the Newell Gurus visit our Forum and I thought it would be nice to see visit your site since I have thought about seeing how things were done here. I am always trying to learn from others as well as just learning by renovating my own coach when I can. I've seen a lot of Newell Coaches on the road and know the quality is top notch and by learning more about the Newell I thought that some of the ideas I pick up here I can apply to my own coach. Also, maybe someday I may find a Newell that suits my budget and needs. I'm retired now and live in Maple Ridge, BC. I've had my coach for 4 years now and really enjoy showing my wife places she has never been to, especially the South Western states.

John

Mrs Cobham, ( AKA navigator) spied this Classic Newell off the highway in a small rv park in Asheville North Carolina today, not far from the Vanderbiilt   Biltmore Estate. It is plated out of Arizona.  The toad was gone. Looks like no one was home...Didn't  want to  appear to be a stalker and continued on our way ,Nice looking  coach. I better get to polishing ours