After a couple of easy days, we packed away yet again, with rain clouds overhead and set off to our last stop at Silver Palms RV resort on the north shore of Lake Okeechobee in the centre of southern Florida.

It was quite a long trip, took us 4 hours with just one stop to fill the fuel tank, another $152 but no surprises as by now we were used to the fuel consumption and we had estimated $150 – how close was that!

Well about an hour into the journey the heavens opened and on went the wind shield wipers at full speed to cope with it.

Eventually the hard rain storm stopped, then a few minutes later we had another quick shower , on went the wipers again, but after two ‘wipes’ they STOPPED followed by a smell of burning – oh no, it smelt like the wiper motor had burnt out and we still had over 100 miles to go!

After pulling over to check the fuse to find it had not blown, we kept going, praying that the heavy rain would hold off.

Well our prayers were answered as all we had for the next two hours were small showers that didn’t affect the vision much.

We pulled into Silver Palms, very relieved and pulled onto the site and rang Lazydays, the dealer who we bought the RV from, well they were useless, didn’t even know who there we should be talking to about a fault under warranty, it appeared that they had had their money so goodbye, 0/10 for effort.

So we rang the manufacturer, Tiffin in Alabama and they couldn’t have been better, both with response and suggestions!

They told us to get someone local to do the work, they would ship the parts out immediately and they would pay for it under warranty.

Unfortunately when we rang around, no-one could get the parts and do the job for about 5 days!

We couldn’t believe it, we were supposed to be moving on in two days’ time!

So we checked the  weather forecast for both where we were and for where we were going and it was rain for several days at both places.

Without more ado an executive decision was made, Millie was consulted and she gave her approval so we packed up again and took to the road to try and get back to base before the weather broke!

Well we made it without hitting any heavy rain, just a few small showers.

A rather long day, including the couple of stops, we had been on the move from 9:30am to 6:30pm and driven about 400 miles.

Again Tiffin Customer Service shone, they rung us as we were travelling to see what was happening and when we told them we couldn’t get the work done for 5 days, offered (without prompting) to send the new parts to our base address so that we could get the work done locally at our leisure.

All this without having to take the wiper motor off first to check for any faults – well done Tiffin, despite the motor failure it shows we picked the right manufacturer, 10/10 for effort.