A week or so ago I posted my tale of woe on the Tech board. 08 Contessa was absolutely dead in the water in our gated Indio, CA park, from unknown causes/causes. Hadn't been run for a month and gauges began to bounce around with no key in the ignition. Tried ignition and nothing. Checked batteries, all good, and tried again. Lots of strong cranking but no ignition, only an error code telling me Engine Comm Failure.Closest Cat Dealer is in Riverside who will not make house calls for motorhomes. Found one local commercial truck service that came out and charged me $650 to determine it could not be fixed on site. It needed to be aired up, towed off our lot into the street and then loaded on a lowboy and hauled the 75 miles to Riverside. It was then I posted my plight on the BAC Forum.... and guess what? I got a call from our own Mr. David Atherton, Retired Cat mechanic and board contributor. He told me that I was about to start writing big, big checks and would I mind if he drove from his base in Quartsite, AZ and looked at my situation. Well, my momma didn't raise no raging idiots and I welcomed his help. Long story short three trips and long hours later he and his capable assistant, Gale had thoroughly diagnosed and addressed the problem and the old Cat was back on linewith a new ECM. He was able to get the old toasted ECM off and install a new one, freshly programed to my engine, on site with only limited disassembly of the engine. So now, we can drive this thing back to Bend, whereas for a while there it was looking like it would turn into an 8 tired park model. The guy is an old school pro and I want to thank him publicly.