Bakken lady wrote:
New to forum, new to full time. Just bought 2016 Prime Time Sanibel 3901, 5 slides, 42 ft. We are parked in the Bakken, 50 miles from Canada, colder than Minot ND. We have had nothing but problems since hauling it up here. 2 slides cannot close, all 5 leak air, 2 leak water and have water in our storage compartment underneath when it rains. We can't take it anywhere as we are living up here, and Forest River is not really wanting to help us up here. I guess I will find out about the extreme thermo pkg soon as snow is expected Tuesday. It uses quite a bit propane. I don't recommend the Sanibel at this point.
That area gets exceptionally cold in the winter, and the wind makes it really tough on an RV. Helped the kid pick out a Holiday Rambler Presidential 5th wheel which he lived in up there for a little over 4 years working the oil fields. You definitely go through a lot of propane. He was using a 500 gallon tank and it wasn't enough to get through a whole winter so he would need them to come out and refil at least once every winter. Cold related issues from time to time are to be expected in that climate. We had to move him down to Wyoming on short notice in January 2016 and he couldn't find a commercial hauler willing to do it. I ended up driving 950 plus miles on a Friday in a serious snowstorm to get up there. Couldn't believe how big Watford city had become. We stayed in a newer motel by an oriental steak house in Watford city which is about 40 miles from the field lit up by gas fires/flares where he was renting a spot basically in a farmhouse driveway. Brutal cold next morning, and had to jack all 6 5er tires out of frozen ground to get it to move. Made for another long day towing to Rawlins Wyoming in a blizzard the next day.
If it's any consolation, it gets pretty cold in Wyoming too. Kid came home last Christmas and a mouse got into his furnace and jammed up the blower while he was gone. Somehow even the hot water tank ended up freezing and splitting which fortunately was the worst damage from what froze. His main tanks survived somehow and weren't leaking once things thawed out. That said, as I'm sure you see, there are a lot of folks in that area figuring out had to make it work in a wide assortment of different RVs.
