Water tank size.... What would you do?

Rwake901 wrote:

Bionic Man wrote:
I'd be pretty upset as well. It won't hurt to contact both the selling dealer as well as the manufacture, but I think it will be hard to get them to do much.

I feel like I am in the same situation as you are. My trailer is supposed to have 90 gallons of capacity. I don't know how much it really has, but it sure isn't 90. Wife and I can go for a weekend without filling, maybe stretch it to 3 days if I am careful, but longer than that doesn't work.

I ended up buying one of these. Bed Water Caddy. 63 gallons. When we go for more than 2 days, I always bring it with me. I modified a RV water pump so that I can pump water from the tank into my trailer.

It isn't as good as having the 90 gallon capacity my trailer is supposed to have, but it will get me through longer trips without having to move my trailer to refill.

I figure that I’m pretty much screwed too. They haven’t stood behind anything yet. The radio in the camper wouldn’t receive any stations so I checked it and they never installed an antenna. So I called them up thinking they would send me one. Nope, take it to your dealer I was told. I said my dealer is 90 miles away I’m not driving that far for a ten dollar antenna. So I bought one on eBay. Works great now. Thanks for the tank and pump idea. Although I won’t need that big of a tank 10 to 15 gallons would work great for me and I will need the pump to put it in because there is no gravity fill. Great idea thanks

Option is to get 2 of the "blue cubes" at Wallyworld. About $15 each. Swap out the included spigot for a hose bib, put your white hose on it and use the trailer's own pump in the winterize setting to suck the water into the fresh tank. Might have to open up the vent hole, though, as I'm sure the pump is likely to suck faster than the jug will vent.

I know that I want to meter my fresh system as it's supposed 61 gal capacity either is flat out wrong or it's siphoning as I drive. Our first boondocker last year left us short of water after 4 days, though we didn't go completely dry. I bring 2 of the blue cubes and put them on my tailgate for hand washing, tooth brushing and "camp fire water heating".

Lyle