Beaudry RV Bound-Monaco Rally in Tucson

Since our windshield was now cracked from top to bottom on the drivers side, we were glad the time had come to go to the Monaco Rally at Beaudry RV in Tucson so we could get the windshield replaced. We had set this up a week earlier and the new windshield was waiting for us.

On our way to Tucson, I got a warning indication on my tire pressure monitoring system that the front tires of the car were getting hot and indicating high pressure. There was no place to pull over, so I slowed down and waited until we got through Phoenix and over to Chandler where we were going to stop for fuel. We stopped and I got out to see what was wrong. Apparently, our car air brake was on too tight causing the car brakes to rub and heat up. One of the front hubcaps was gone and the other severely melted and ready to fall off. As I fueled the coach, Peg unhooked the brake cylinder for the car since we were pretty close to our destination anyway. She also told me the brakes went right to the floor in the car....Not a good thing. We finished fueling and continued on.

Made it to Beaudry's, unhooked the car from the motorhome and, as Peg said, the brakes were almost non-existent. She carefully pulled the car to the side and parked and we got the coach in to the service department for the windshield repair. Glen, the service manager, knew of a place we could get the brakes replaced so he called and set it up and, after checking in to get a spot for the rally (being held at the same place), we carefully traveled about 6 blocks to the repair shop.

By this time it was almost 2pm and I had to eat. We walked down the street a few blocks to a Burger King and had a long awaited lunch. Back to the brake shop and they said they will have to replace all four rotors (they were colored red from heat) as well as the brake pads. I also suggested changing out the brake fluid since it is no good once it is "boiled" as I am sure it was. They called Beaudry and Beaudry sent someone to pick us up and take us to the waiting room for the coach.

After waiting about and hour and a half, the windshield was in and we drove it to our site (after paying our $500 deductible that is). About another hour later, Beaudry called and said the car was ready and they could take us back to the brake shop. That worked out well since we had just completed our set-up of the coach on site #1371 and we were ready to go.

Picked up the car, paid a reasonable $324 for the total brake repair and we were on our way back to the campground. What did we do next.....WE RELAXED! The rally was almost upon us.

Believe it or not, we did not take any still pictures of the rally, just video. Look for the rally video on American RVer show #42, December 2009. We became reacquainted with Rosalie and Mike Mahr (parked in the next row behind us), Les and Letha Lollar, Lee and Vicky Dillard and John and Christine Fraiser. Bob and Marlene Rea and Hank and Lillie Corbitt drove down from Casa Grande to see the vendors and to visit with us for a while on Wednesday and we all went out to a Mexican lunch...See Photo.