Check out this new RV with an RV AC not cooling. Don’t buy a new RV expecting everything to work. Make sure you get it inspected first. Jason here with MyRVResource.com – It’s Like the Yellow Pages for RV Services! I’m here today to bring you another Weekly One Reason to Get an RV Inspection.
I know I’ve talked about air conditioners not being taped properly in the plenum area before, but today I see one that is way out there. A new RV should not be shipped like this. This is a new 2022 RV ready for delivery and it’s nice and clean. I’m going to show you what can cause some short cycling in your air conditioner, then we’re going to explain it.
Let me just change the picture around and we’re looking at the return side of the air conditioner. This is where the air gets sucked up into the air conditioner. All I have done to find this is remove the air conditioner’s filter. Looking up inside here we see I can put my hand up in here way back in this area. These are actually the vents that send cold air back into the RV. There is a track that the cold air coming out of the air conditioner follows to go to the vents and sends cold air out.
So what we have here is cold air being forced into the return area that is supposed to suck up the warm air from inside the RV. Essentially this AC is trying to cool and dehumidify the air that was just cooled and dehumidified. This condition makes the air conditioner very inefficient and doesn’t allow the temperatures inside of your RV from getting cool.
Once again, this is a new 2022 RV that has had its Pre-Delivery Inspection by the dealership. They didn’t even seal all this area off. This RV was supposedly inspected by the manufacturer prior to delivery to the dealership, and then again by the dealership. This is one of those things that most PDI techs don’t even look for. As a matter of fact, most PDI techs are the new techs that might not even be registered, certified, or any other certification. They were probably hired to help out and they have kind of been shown the ropes.
The interior of this RV is not cool and just before I put this video on turned the AC off so we didn’t have the noise in the background and it’s about 80 degrees inside the RV. Do you want to purchase an RV with the issue and go on your first camping trip? The RV AC not cooling and then you’re calling the dealership and you may have to wait 6-8 weeks or more to get that fixed.
This is a simple fix using some aluminum duct tape for ac ducts and sealing that area off so that the cold air cannot come into the return area.
Again with our Weekly One Reason to Get an RV Inspection, check the plenum inside the AC and look at it. All I had to do was remove the AC filter from the return of the AC and look for areas that aren’t sealed. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, hire a certified RV inspector.
Here at My RV Inspection, we’re Master Certified. We’ve had the same training as everybody else, the Master Certification just means that we’ve proven that we do what the NRVIA wants us to do. It’s a difficult process that’s why there were only four of us in the country at the time this video was made. So get a certified RV inspector, don’t just hire some Joe Schmo off the street. Don’t go out and hire one of these big corporations that say we’ll do an RV inspection for $289 or $309 or whatever. They typically hire auto mechanics and do you think they know what a certified RV inspector knows? I doubt it unless they’re watching my videos, and even then they only know a very small portion of what we do.
So I’m Jason with MyRVResource.com. It’s like Yellow Pages for RV services. Find what you need, where you need it, and when you need it, all across the country. Do a map-based search for your city and state and they’re all going to pop up that are within range.
