While at the Freightliner Rally we heard there were places in Yuma that would wash and wax your coach for around $120. That sounded too good to be true as in San Diego they want $10 a foot for that.. ($400) I got a couple of names someone had used previously and called Dave’s Auto Detail (aka DAD’s), they were too busy to do it Friday the day we would be passing thru Yuma. I called Benjamin’s. He told me to call him when I was almost in Yuma and he would try to fit me in. I called 15 minutes prior to the turnoff he told us to use. He said he would have someone meet me behind Al’s RV Supply. A few minutes later the tech called me and told me he would be a while as he needed to go back to the shop and fill the water tank. We drove behind the place and the parking lots was fairly sloped so we drove around front to wait. I went inside the store and found a lens cover for a basement light I had broken months before and was not able to find the right replacement anywhere. While I was paying for the lens I got to thinking, it was already after 3pm and figured we would probably need to spend the night as it would probably close to 7pm when they finished. So I called an RV campground that was a few hundred yards away to ask them if they had a spot and whether they would allow a firm to come in and wash the coach. Got an affirmative answer and we headed off. Checked in and parked just as the tech called me back. We were on, they were a few minutes away.
I was a bit apprehensive when they arrived as I had realized I hadn’t asked how much it would cost. I was pleasantly surprised when they said it was $99 for a complete wash with a hand waxing for the sides of the coach but not the roof, they only wash that. But then the sales pitch started, for another $49 they would treat the roof with a Wax & UV inhibitor, similar to 303… I opted in. It took them about 2 hours, with 3 of them working to finish it. They did a great job!
I was glad we decided to stay the night there as I had already driven 4 hours from Tucson is it was almost dark when they finished. I find it kind of uncomfortable driving the coach at night due to the side windows reflecting everything back at you. Going straight is no issue, but practically impossible to see anything to the right or left of you at night. I had noticed that phenomena one very early morning in Muscle Shoals Alabama on a very short drive from a small campground to a shop to have some work done on the coach. Even turning off all the dashboard lights didn’t help that. It’s nothing I’ve seen in any other vehicle before.