R-pod Owners Forum : No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water http://www.rpod-owners.com/ This is an XML content feed of; R-pod Owners Forum : Introduce Yourself : No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 03 May 2026 03:54:13 +0000 Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:36:01 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.64 360 www.rpod-owners.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=10135 R-pod Owners Forum http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png http://www.rpod-owners.com/ No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water : Every Rialta owner I ever met,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94741#94741 Author: furpod
Subject: 10135
Posted: 10 Jun 2017 at 10:36am

Every Rialta owner I ever met, pointed out the best day of ownership was the day they sold it.. Just a great plan, poorly executed. and I love VW. Wouldn't have a Rialta. Any Westfallia? YES. LOL

It's very doubtful you have a dead water heater, if it won't heat in either mode, the 99.999% answer is the bypass valves are set wrong.
]]> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:36:01 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94741#94741 No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water : Previous owner must have discarded... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94735#94735 Author: bigbearcraig
Subject: 10135
Posted: 10 Jun 2017 at 9:38am

Previous owner must have discarded them. You can Google the manufacture of the item you're interested in, and get the information you're looking for.]]> Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:38:47 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94735#94735 No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water : We had to build a manual set,... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94719#94719 Author: mcarter
Subject: 10135
Posted: 09 Jun 2017 at 5:43pm

We had to build a manual set, my wife went online and printed the info and put it into a 3" binder, lot of info. There are actually 3 switches to the WH, the CB and the outside switch and the gas only switch. There are several posts on proper position of valves, Google is your buddy. You need to ensure your have water in the heater, so correct valves have to be in proper position. It is not fast, takes it a bit to heat 6 gals. The heater element can be damaged by heating sans water in tank, so make sure you have water in tank. If the worst happens and element is bad, it can be replaced. Pretty simple circuit. My wife is very intelligent but will still have discussions about "righty tighty and lefty loosy". Not as bad as it appears. Understand you are frustrated but hard to roll up your sleeves and go to work, if you're wringing your hands my friend.]]> Fri, 09 Jun 2017 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94719#94719 No Owner's Manuals? No Hot Water : After a really miserable winter... http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10135&PID=94715#94715 Author: twday66
Subject: 10135
Posted: 09 Jun 2017 at 4:12pm

After a really miserable winter fighting with VW's customer-hostile "service" and our first camper, a Winnebago Rialta, we lucked out and sold the Rialta and, then, my wife nagged me into buying a small camper trailer with the intention that she would be the camper expert. That lasted about a week and our like-new 179 has sat in its parking place for two years; winterized and empty. This spring, I got fooled into being the camper maintenance man once again and re-discovered there is no manual for the R-Pod. Really? People actually pay big money for a product Forest River is too lazy to generate a manual for? LOL Apparently customer hostility is the standard for camper sellers. 

Apparently, our camper doesn't have a functioning electric hot water heater and, of course, there is NO service information on how to troubleshoot either the panel or the heater. As you can probably tell, I'm close to telling her I not only have no interest in her camper but I can't figure it out, either. I have spent most of my 69 years camping in a tent and I'm still perfectly happy with that arrangement. She, on the other hand, is ready for some adventures after 50 years of staying home because she doesn't like motorcycles or tents. 

As best I can tell, the switch on the interior control panel would be labelled "Gas Hot Water," if Forest River bothered to do the job half-right, and the only switch I need to concern myself with for the electric heater is the one on the side of the trailer dementedly placed at the bottom left of the header panel under the gas fixtures? I'm pretty sure the water valves are set properly, but the lack of labeling there is fairly disgusting, too. 

Yeah, I'm discouraged and would rather be doing almost anything else. 
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