RATING: ♦♦♦♦
- Dates: Sep 18, 2019 – Sep 20, 2019
- Length of stay: 2 nights.
- Cost per night: $0 plus repair costs.
- Discount: N/A.
- Hookups: 50 amp electric, water, and sewer.
- Site number/quality: There are 11 pull-through sites. Each is a level gravel site with a small concrete pad on passenger side.
- Park Quality: This RV park is only available to customers of Redland Truck and RV while their rigs are being serviced. It is our second time having service done here. The first time was in April for brakes. This time is was to replace the cooling unit on our Norcold refrigerator.
- Access: The campground is just a few blocks off I-10 in the town of Redlands CA, near San Bernardino, and one block from the repair shop itself.
- Connectivity: Verizon – good, AT&T – good, and T-Mobile -good.
- Return yes/no?: If we are anyway near here, we would gladly take our motorhome here for repairs again if needed.
- Notes: Our refrigerator went out about five weeks ago when we were having our jacks replaced at Winnebago in Junction City. They diagnosed the problem to be our cooling unit. To fix it, they would have had to order a replacement unit, which would take a couple weeks. But we didn’t want to wait around anymore in Oregon, so we decided to have Redlands do it once we got further south. In the meantime, we bought a Knox 12 volt electric cooler and a Coleman ice chest. Between the two, we survived well enough during the summer heat. We considered replacing the Norcold, which runs on either 110v from shore power or propane when on battery power, with a residential fridge, which runs only on 110v. But that would require upgrading the inverter and rewiring the electrical panel in order to run the fridge on battery power when boondocking. We just couldn’t justify the cost, which would have been over $5,000. The new cooling unit “only” cost $3,000, and is working great so far.
- Website: Redland Truck and RV