You would think that the most difficult thing in replacing a mattress would be to dispose of the old one. In this case that turned out to be the easy thing to do, the difficult part was actually getting the old wildebeest out of the coach.
After paying almost $50 for a 4 ounce bag of indicating desiccant at FoT, we did some research to find some lower cost options. This desiccant is used on the outlet of the HWH pump to dry the air before its used.
We had the FOT team (David F, Michael G. and Larry) do a little remodeling for us. We had our driver and passenger chairs replaced with new Villa ones. The covering is ultraleather Brisa in “bridle”, a distressed Brisa (but only subtly so). Since we had charcoal/black as other accents in the coach (like the window valences and the piping on the sofa arm inset), we specifically ordered black seat belts.
This is a nice little hacking project for all the tinkerers out there. I replaced our double din radio / cd combination with a 7” touch screen monitor attached to a netbox. This will run VMSpc (among other things) with the in-dash monitor to create our own advanced driver information center.
We decided to replace our entry steps, the old Kwikee double-step swing out version. Many recommended the Xtreme Paint and Graphics step conversion. We decided to splurge and go for it.
