Rear kitchen tow pros cons

Never had problems with things moving around anymore than a mid kitchen we had before but it did have shocks and maybe that made the difference.

camperkilgore wrote:
With our rear kitchen fiver, we adapted to arranging things in the cabinets to allow for the added bounce in the rear.

Light weight things in the overhead cabinets (plastic food storage containers for example). The heavy canned goods, drinks and bottles of water are stored further toward the middle of the camper. In the laundry hatch area in the basement for example. Like any camper, it takes careful packing to get all the needed stuff on board, and the rear kitchen just takes a little extra care in packing.

Our fridge is in the very back, and heavier cans of coke and the like have broken the plastic door shelves, so we put lighter weight things on those shelves.

My wife has been very smart at putting shelf liner material between the plates and dishes that might break, and dish towels around our coffee mugs.

We've had this camper since 2005, and have only had a couple of things broken due to bounce. We found the above solutions to solve those problems early on.

Best way to deal with any bounce is install shocks on the 5er.

We are on our first 5th wheel that we purchased used, and it has a rear kitchen. We really like the storage space and layout. Just two slides on the rig. Don't have any problems with items bouncing around or breaking, but do take common sense precautions.

My wife loves to cook, and will not have anything but a rear kitchen. A rear kitchen is not a traffic area, and she wants the counter space. We have never had anything move or break like some people post, and some of the roads we take to boondock are not smooth roads at all.

Edited to add, we don't put anything like cans in our fridge door shelves.

Usually the beer gets its own shelf. ;)

With our rear kitchen fiver, we adapted to arranging things in the cabinets to allow for the added bounce in the rear.

Light weight things in the overhead cabinets (plastic food storage containers for example). The heavy canned goods, drinks and bottles of water are stored further toward the middle of the camper. In the laundry hatch area in the basement for example. Like any camper, it takes careful packing to get all the needed stuff on board, and the rear kitchen just takes a little extra care in packing.

Our fridge is in the very back, and heavier cans of coke and the like have broken the plastic door shelves, so we put lighter weight things on those shelves.

My wife has been very smart at putting shelf liner material between the plates and dishes that might break, and dish towels around our coffee mugs.

We've had this camper since 2005, and have only had a couple of things broken due to bounce. We found the above solutions to solve those problems early on.

Our current 5er is RK mid living room with lots of windows. DW LOVES to cook, and a kitchen with more than 18" of counter top was requirement #1!
Table and chairs, not a dinette was #2, so this is what she got!

It is a bit over 11,000# at a GVWR of 12,360 and 32' in length.

Only issue was a road buckle like a speed bump we hit at 45 mph, I thought the 5er left the ground! We broke the door shelves in the refer, with soda and beer on them.

We had more issues with things in the cabinets moving around with the RK vs. our current center kitchen. Up/down motion is more at the rear.

Had a TT for 13 years and it was awesome.
I would not hesitate to get another RK if I liked the overall floor plan.

There should be absolutely no difference in towing or handling. If the mfg did their job correctly the qxles will be moved according to weight to give a decent pin weight. What you will loose will be the wonderful picture window vore out the back.