Disappointment for me, a first for Dealer

So I went to pick up my new 178 yesterday. Did all the paperwork, then went to service department for the walk-thru. The young man was doing a great job. As we were going over some interior features, the refrigerator began to beep. He went over, looked at it thoroughly, pushed a few of the power source buttons and it stopped.....only to start back about 2 minutes later. To make a VERY long story short, this went on for the next hour. A couple of the service fellows, (who obviously know what they are doing) did a number of things, including checking every possible cause they could physically check, all to no avail. Said this was a first on any of their r-pods. Called Dometic, explained all they had done, fridge still beeping. Apparently the board was somehow fried and sending alert tones (every two minutes) for no really good reason. Ordering a new board for the refrigerator, so I came home empty-handed. Still, better to have it happen at the dealership than at 2 am on the first trip out. Will return next week to hopefully bring camper home. Hopefully just a fluke....for an alert tone though, as far as alert tones go, it was almost a pleasant little tap on the shoulder sound as opposed to a shoulder shaking, teeth rattling, shrieking alarm.   

Thanks, Fred. I was impressed with the walk-thru. Bless him though, when the refrigerator started beeping, he became consumed with finding the source of the problem. My guess is we will officially "finish" the walk-thru when I return next week.

Safe travels.

A good walk through is important, my dealer didn't care as much and hurried it left me with more questions that I would have liked.  I wasn't totally disappointed though as I really like to spend my time learning the systems inside and out.  The dealer did a good enough job, is all I can really say.  Head up you'll have it soon!

Happy to hear your dealer's service techs knew what they were doing.  The lead tech and service manager failed spectacularly at mine, which I detailed in another thread here not long ago.

Same thing happen to our 177 during the walk though. FR sent a replacement memory board. You guessed it same result. Same darn beeping. The tech call FR and they sent out a new refreg.. Now issues now. Not sure why this is happening.