What do you do before a trip?

Thanks for all the suggestions. I appreciate it.

Will here I go and open a can of worms. Your rig is a 2013 so if you have never bought tires the tires are at or past the 4 year mark. IMHO no matter what you have done to the tires and no matter how much tread is left they need to be replaced.

I notice everyone says "fill the water tank". Don't!! Most class C's are weight capacity limited (ours is very limited) so why carry an extra 300-400 pounds (or more) you don't need to. We limit the water tank to 5-6 gallons, just enough for the toilet until we reach our destination. Fill if needed at that point for boon-docking. Keep just a couple of gallons in the grey and black tanks. Other than that the lists are good.

Dave

harley-dave wrote:
I notice everyone says "fill the water tank". Don't!! Most class C's are weight capacity limited (ours is very limited) so why carry an extra 300-400 pounds (or more) you don't need to. We limit the water tank to 5-6 gallons, just enough for the toilet until we reach our destination. Fill if needed at that point for boon-docking. Keep just a couple of gallons in the grey and black tanks. Other than that the lists are good.

Dave

Excellent advice unless you breakdown in hot weather or the water at your campground has taste issues.

TyroneandGladys wrote:
Will here I go and open a can of worms. Your rig is a 2013 so if you have never bought tires the tires are at or past the 4 year mark. IMHO no matter what you have done to the tires and no matter how much tread is left they need to be replaced.

They are actually brand new tires. They had a recall on the tires so I was able to get all new ones!!!

TyroneandGladys wrote:

harley-dave wrote:

I notice everyone says "fill the water tank". Don't!! Most class C's are weight capacity limited (ours is very limited) so why carry an extra 300-400 pounds (or more) you don't need to. We limit the water tank to 5-6 gallons, just enough for the toilet until we reach our destination. Fill if needed at that point for boon-docking. Keep just a couple of gallons in the grey and black tanks. Other than that the lists are good.

Dave


Excellent advice unless you breakdown in hot weather or the water at your campground has taste issues.

X2 on starting out with a full freshwater tank. We try to always begin our trips with all tanks full that should be full and all tanks empty that should be empty.

Maybe it's just a thing with me, but I don't like to start out our travels in a "well stocked and self contained RV" that really isn't. To achieve this we had to find an RV that had a whole bunch of extra weight carrying capacity so we could load it up with no concerns.

Good advise above, I will just throw one more thing in. Start it up and take it for a drive as soon as possible. Even if you only go to a Walmart but make it one that is 20 or 30 miles away. If there are any problems from sitting you need to find out about them before the day you leave. Most likely everything will be fine but nothing ruins a trip faster than an overheated engine 30 miles from home or a check engine light that came out of nowhere.