pinesman wrote:
Good morning. My current rig is a 2003 Crossroads Cruiser, 31' with 60 gallon fresh, black, gray, and galley tanks. As I get closer to retirement, I think i might want to upgrade to something newer but I want something in the same size range with the same tank sizes. Self leveling would be an added plus also. Does anyone have any recommendations for something like that? Thanks.
That was one of the things that really turned me off to a lot of rigs when I was shopping a few years ago. My old FW, relatively small, had 3 45 gal tanks. While it's easy to haul extra fresh water for boondocking and you can, if needed, dump a grey tank (legalities aside), you can't dump a black tank. When I was shopping, my #2 choice would have had me giving up 13 gal of black capacity. NOT conducive to more than 2-3 days of dry camping, unless you just poop in the woods. If that was our preference, we wouldn't have bought the FW in the first place. I ended up gaining capacity on all 3 tanks with my KZ. Not only this, but whatever the mfr's brochure and web site says, what you actually get may be significantly different. I recently read about a guy who's FW was advertised with a 60+ gal fresh tank, but ended up with a rig that only has a 45 gal tank, as measured with a meter as it filled. That fine print of "specifications may change without notice" gets them off the hook legally, but morally, that mfr is a POS, IMO.
Lyle
