Grr...ABS and CMS lights!

Feb 16 - 24, 2026

It's kind of "he said, she said" version of our not-so-great week.

Grr...On our way to Robins AFB in Georgia, our dashboard lit up. First it hit us with ABS failure. That was quickly followed by CMS failure. While neither were show stoppers, and we were able to continue to our destination, we were going to have to go to a Spartan authorized repair center for diagnostics. Grr... 

So, we spent one night in our campsite at the famcamp on Robins AFB, got up early and drove the 30 minutes to Rush Truck Center in Macon, GA. They open at 7:00 am and are a first come, first serve facility. We expected to be there most of the day, possibly overnight if they had to order a part. Well, that stretched into four days with three overnights in a hotel as they tracked electrical issues step-by-step. Grr...so much for a quick fix.

They finally found a pinched wiring harness between the chassis and the "house" part of the coach. Guess what was not considered a warranty issue? Plus, there was an electrical issue with Silverleaf system on the house side not reading the proper voltage. By Friday afternoon, we're several thousand dollars into the repair. We asked them to stop the Silverleaf diagnostics since that has been an ongoing issue and though we'd love to figure it out, it wasn't preventing travel. We paid our bill, and headed back to the famcamp. Grr..., the ABS and CMS lights hit again. So there's something else besides the pinched wiring harness. 

Then, when we got to the famcamp, there was someone in our site. Though I hadn't coned off our site, I had spoken to the staff a couple of times during the week, letting them know what was happening. Grr....

We had called Rush on our way back to the famcamp, and they asked us to return on Monday morning. We did, and this time they found a wire rubbing against the chassis. This was covered by warranty and probably the real issue all along. How much of a fight do we want to put up with Spartan? Grr... We picked up the coach the next morning, after yet another hotel overnight, and headed to a new campground.  

It was a frustrating week. I was searching the Internet for both new coaches and new houses, wondering if it was time to quit full-timing, get a new coach, find a place to live, or some combination thereof. Grr...

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