Today we drove from Florida New York to Pittston Pennsylvania. Upon arriving in Pittston to gas up the motorhome, we found that the backing plate on the CRV was sagging down when it should be securely tight. The backing plate is the part of the tow bar system that allows us to hook the car up to the motorhome. Upon closer inspection, the backing plate was hanging on by one bolt on the passenger side. There should be 4 bolts on each side.
We (very nice of Vern to say "We" as all I did was watch and bring Diet Coke and Oreo's) decided to try and fix it before moving on. This entails removing everything on the front of the car down to the frame. Once there, I found that the backing plate was twisted and bent in the middle (not good).
Luckily we were able to locate an RV parts store that could get us a new backing plate by tomorrow (at a princely sum of $460).
Once I got the part, I had the car back together in about a day (not fun). Sue here...unfortunately Vern had to work on the car while it was 40 degrees and raining off and on all day :( We spent the night in the Walmart parking (along with about 10 big rigs (where there were at least 50 signs saying "No Semi Truck Parking") and a few other motorhomes.
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