eric1514
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A little personalization.
Eric

Eric
That looks nice!
Do you use the cover when you camp or just for storage?
What does il Travato Rossi mean in English?I'm still not sure I got the definition of Travato right...
On the seat swivel alarm, aka rotary dial:
We just purchased our 2015 Travato 59G a month ago. Between Wincrasher's and FitRV's excellent write ups and videos we were pretty well informed and were sold on it before we stepped foot in it.
Anyway, our Travato appeared to have an issue in the wiring of the parking brake related to the swivel seat alarm. The parking brake, when pulled, would not allow us to lock the vehicle and indicated a rear door was open.
Initially I removed the white wire from the parking brake, but then the alarm continued to sound at a low level. I then took the dash apart and disconnected the alarm's two wires.
After downloading and printing Winnebago's wiring diagrams (thanks Winnebago!), I decided to remove the relay for the alarm that is located under the awning switch by the fire extinguisher to completely break the circuit to the parking brake switch. I also found the 5 amp fuse used to auto-retract the step was blown and replaced it.
I also plugged the white wire back into the parking brake. Now, the parking brake shows up as 'Brake' in the instrument cluster as it should when pulled and more importantly we can lock the vehicle with the emergency brake engaged.
The step also retracted automatically when the vehicle was driven.
Wow - I guess that's a bit of a long explanation. Maybe it will help someone else with the same symptoms, although technically I didn't find the root cause. I had planned on disconnecting the swivel alarm anyway but the parking brake - door locking problem sort of accelerated the need for the modification.
Today I looked at a red 59G that had the lower panels all the way around sprayed with black truck bed liner. It looked pretty rugged. The application was decent, with a few spots where the build up at the taped edges was sloppy.
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I saw at Roy Robinson RV in Marysville WA. It is listed on the RV Trader web site.