So I decide to take the Viva to my son's house to spend the night and "driveway camp" with 2 of the grands. Cole loves the "ahh v" as he calls it! Spent the night with no hookups but I had water onboard and really wanted to see how the batteries would do with no hookups.
Turned out great had fun...Until...got in the next day to crank up and an alarm started going off! A LOUD alarm. I thought, oh great, Cole has pushed some button while pretending to drive ( he loves doing that) and I don't have a clue what he did. My son and I spent 30 minutes trying everything and pulling out the manual/ encyclopedia to figure it out. No luck.
I finally call roadside assistance/no assistance when my son lifts up on the emergency brake and it stops! Turns out, lifting up all the way on the emergency brake the alarm went off, let it down, alarm on, but a slight lift ( not enough to click) and it goes off. Hmmm what to do...can't drive with brake on, can't drive listening to alarm (it was very loud and I had a 2 hour drive)!
So...my son suggests putting something small under the brake to lift it slightly so alarm would go off and I could get home. We did that and my son and his family leave to go to a friend's house. I put up all the manuals, get things ready and hit the road. When I get to the end of the neighborhood, another alarm goes off, this time in the dash probably because the brake light is on in dash but brake is not engaged. Well nothing I can do about it now, just drive...tried the radio on loud to cover up the alarm the it was double noise! I stopped 4 times for my nerves and once to eat! Lol. Made it home with my last nerve barely in tact.
Took it to service the next day and they discovered it was the sensor on the swivel seat! They fixed it and noticed a new recall was out on it so I told them to do that too while it was there.
So I'm still waiting for my Viva to come home so I can clean her up and get ready for the next trip for two weeks in July to the beach! Hmmm, that's a long time...I need to find another trip in June!
