Ouch! That's gotta hurt.

Some time it just don't pay! 

Time to get this one going again.

Hmmm. When I bought the Peanut, it was mid February. It had spent its life in South Carolina. The folks that brought it to NH were not "Classic" owners, they have a sweet '03 28'er.
We worked feverishly to get the rig ready to camp in March and then again in April. The waste piping needed work, the valve bodies dripped. no biggie, I took everything apart refurbished the valves and replummed the line.
March went Awesome. No problems everything worked like new, however, we dry camped.
April rolls around and we wanted to use the MH again. The State Park has Water and Electric, no Sewer Hook up.
In the late evening I notice a drip of water coming from under the MH. No real good indication of where? No biggie, I'll look at it when we get home.  After the first night we found the shower facility to be less than desiresable. No problem we'll use our shower. Plenty of hot water in the rig! Well, less than a minute into the shower, and I was conserving as much as possible, I'm standing in water??? Great, plugged tub basin drain, must be a freekin mouse nest! Oh well, "Bird Bath"! The weekend went well, everyone loved touring the rig. Not many missed the drip, drip, drip. Was not black water so I was not concerned.
Once we got home, I figured I'd put a bucket under the pipe and get a snake to see if I could get the drain free. Pulled the handle and WHOOSH!! One bucket, two buckets, three buckets, four. Oh for cryin out loud! Light comes on over my head. I had the piping apart in February (30º high for the day), the piping dripped for the 3 days it was apart until it was reassembled. The gray tank was FULL and frozen solid the whole time. I gotta be some lucky, no damage to the tank!

You just need to disable the "R" on your steering column ;)

Ooooo, man, at least mine had a happy ending... 

As bad as mine. I needed to turn around and as I was coming to a street I missed there was a easement and I figured it could turn around there. I was towing my pickup and the angle from pavement to easement was sharper than it looked all of the sudden.. You probubly already know what happened, I had the rear end off the ground with the hitch holding it up!!! I couldn't back up or go forward and now I'm blocking both sides of the road!! I had some guy come out and go to his pickup and come down to me and with a chain pulled me around with his 4X4. With almost everyone on the street watching... Embarrassing!! You could have heard them saying...ROOKIE!!!!

Had to go east of Madison WS to pick up the motorhome after we bought her. Before this I had seen her once and hoped I had everything with me I needed. Ball for the hitch to tow truck home, towbar, wiring, spare oil, anitfreeze about everything I thought.

Get there, the ball has a 1 inch bolt, the hitch, 3/4 inch. You have any idea how long it takes to file out a hole in that hard steel? A few blisters later and the ball is in. Go to plug in the lights and it is just a plug taped to the hitch, had never been wired up! OK, simple, pull the taillights, tap into the wires and that will at least get us home. Finally get everything hooked together and were ready to go, wife steps in the door and a bee fly's in behind her glasses (this ain't good folks, she hates bugs!), she freaks, swats the bee and her glasses go flying out the door and break in the driveway. So much for my navigation device!

Now, we have to make a side trip into Madison to get her glasses fixed, New motorhome that I have now owned for all of an 1 1/2 hours and I get to go downtown Madison WS with it! Oh joy. Start in for town and there are severe storms in the area (actually a tornado!), coming down this old highway into a valley, get on the bridge and get slammed by this wind flying through the valley, I'm standing up pulling as hard as I can on the steering wheel to the left to mis the bridge, the wife (as blind as she is) is screaming and holding onto everything she can find. Get across the bridge and out of the wind and straightened back out on the road. Hart beat is about 200 and I could use some clean underwear. Are we having fun yet?

Get into Madison, get her glasses fixed, start for home. Spent the night in a nice motel on the river. Get up, have breakfest, boy it's cold out. The old girl started, caughed and belched up a good ball of smoke that blanketed the next 4 acres of land, (ok, maybe a little more time on the glow plugs was in order), but she's running. Start for home, more storms (should I have ever left home?) starts to rain, turn on the drivers wiper, nothing, turn on the passenger wiper, it works, (well at least somebody can see), running the heater and one wiper, amp gauge says all is well. Starts to get dark, turn on the head lights. Drive for about another hour, boy is it getting dark, are them headlights on? Stop, yep but two candles up there would do better! Something is amiss in the charging department! Ok, don't shut it off, it's diesel, she will run forever if I don't turn it off, but how are we going to get home with no lights! Idea, battery in toad, but how to hook all that up to the batteries in the motorhome. Stop at Kmart, buy a set of jumper cables, pull battery out of truck, set it on the floor, hook jumber cables to motorhome batteries and viola! We have lights agian! Get home, park and go drop in bed!

Found out the previous owner had hooked the batteries up backwards!

What a great start with this RV! But here we are, fixed a few problems, one complete rebuild and we love it!

Okay, I've dealt with this problem before too.  In the parking lot in Gettysburg National Battlefield and the batteries are dead.  Got a jump start from a good samaritan and got on the road.  Yikes!  Not charging at all.  It's raining and we're in the mountains.  Okay, stop for the night in a campground in the mountains.  Plugged in and the batteries charge over night. 

Back on the road.  Rain and sleet.  Wipers run slower and slower and finially quit!!!  Had to pull in to another camp ground on a MOUNTAINSIDE!!!

What to do. Oh what to do.  EUREKA!!!!!  Get our my drill and drill two holes in floor of coach just above battery compartment.  Open batter slide out and attach two wires, (12 ga.), to + and - posts and run them up through the hole into the coach.  Hook up my battery charger to wires in coach and plug into outlet.  Batteries are fully charged by morning and ready to go.

YIKES, mountainside is solid ice in the morning.  Manage to work our way out to highway. 

1. Start Onan Generator.
2. Turn on lights.
3. Turn on wipers.
4. Travel happily down the highway.

Onan Generator continueously charges batteries all the way home.  (Two more days).
Wife was IMPRESSED!!!!!

With our first RV a Tioga class C we moved from California to Joplin,Mo. Parked it next to house for the winter,. We had never heard of winterizing a motorhome. Well the next spring we went camping in Branson and I didn't know you could have so many leaks in a small area. Also split water heater and the gray water tank. Never did get all the leaks fixed.

Not really a blunder but a real pain. Again with our class c Tioga went on a trip to Arizona and on the way back had a tire decide to blow. Not much of a problem we thought just unhook the CJ 5 toad and take tire and wheel to the nearest Wally World and get a new one. That is when we found out that 16.5" tires were obsolete and they didn't have any. A search of the tire stores were also without luck. After 2 days finally found 2 16" wheels at a wrecking yard and 2 new tires from Wally World we were on the road again.