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Old 05-19-2021, 01:57 PM   #1
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Hi Everyone, Have done my best to keep my logbook on mileage and time since i got my 2021 International 27FB and had a few questions.

Current Mileage is only 765miles
Current Time since purchase is 199 Days

According to my manual. It’s already asking to:

- Rotate tires
- Inspect wheel bearings
- inspect or replace brakes.

Do i really need to do this with this low mileage? If so, what is the best place to do this?

Thank you.
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Old 05-19-2021, 03:09 PM   #2
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Rotate tires? Probably not.

Inspect brakes? Based on mine, it's never to soon to inspect the brakes.

Check wheel bearings / hubs? If you are in there to look at the brakes, you can at least do a quick look at the hubs. I would not do anything crazy like pulling them.

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Old 05-19-2021, 03:41 PM   #3
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Most of us (many of us? some of us?) consider bearing and brake checks to be an annual maintenance item, to be done once each yer, usually in the winter when shops are less busy.. If you have a good local Airstream dealer, they could do it, or most other RV Service centers could do it, though you should be pretty explicit about instructions for where and how to jack the unit up, as bozo's could use floor jacks in wrong location and cause damage to axles or frame or belly wrap.. As long as they are checking bearings and brakes, tire "rotation" should be a no cost item, since they'll have them all off at once and can just switch places putting them back on.. You might need to relocate TPMS system sensors, if you have a set installed.. Many Airstreams have slight "Toe in" alignment, so switching from left to right side can extend tire life slightly...
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Maybe it's not a bad idea after the first year, even if it's low mileage, just to pick up any possible defect. After that, I base it on mileage. But since we usually do 8K miles a year it turns out to be annual. Not the case this year as we traveled only a few hundred COVID miles last season.
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Old 05-20-2021, 01:23 PM   #5
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Thank you so much.

Everything looks decent so far and because of the very low mileage, will definitely schedule to take it for rotation and brake check at the end of the year.

Thank you so much.
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