What do you do before a trip?

PghBob wrote:
You should consider changing your oil before going. Eight months is a long time for oil to sit, how many miles on the oil?

Check tire pressure before leaving home, and often during your trip when parked for the night.

Have fun.

Oil doesn't go bad or wear out sitting in the engine sump, any more than it goes bad sitting in bottles on the shelf at Wal-Mart or in your garage. Assuming the mileage isn't excessive, eight month old oil is perfectly fine to go.

I check the level of the fluids (and in particular top up the windshield washer), check and adjust the tire pressure, and check that all the various lights are working (as in marker lights, turn signals, etc.). I also fill the water tank, and if it's the first trip of the season sanitize the fresh water system. Usually I give the motorhome a "quick" wash to get the dust etc. off from storage; at the very least, the windows get squeegeed clean.

Assuming the truck chassis has been kept up maintenance-wise ... in not any particular order some of the things we do are:

1) Set the tire pressures (including the spare tire)
2) Close the refrigerator door and turn it on a couple of days before we leave, then fill it with food the next day
3) Run the propane furnace a bit to get rid of the dust smell from it not being used in awhile
4) Empty the water, black, and grey tanks
5) Fill the black tank with fresh sanitizer and two gallons of water
6) Sanitize and fill the fresh water tank
7) Check the built-in generator's oil level
8) Run the built-in generator a bit to make sure it starts up and works
9) Make sure the gas can for the portable generator is full
10) Make sure the portable BBQ grill is clean
11) Make sure we have plenty of BBQ gas cylinders along
12) Load the tool bag into it's storage compartment
13) Load all the clothing and shoes
14) Load all the groceries into the coach cabinets
15) Load the cases of bottled drinking water
16) Pack in the electronic gear and all charging cables
17) Pack in a selection of DVD's
18) Make sure our portable medicine case is checked for inventory and packed into the RV
19) Vacuum the coach carpets and scrub the vinyl flooring
20) Clean the cab dash and vacumm the cab carpeting
21) Make sure all rockhounding tools are in the RV
22) Make sure the fishing gear is on board
23) Briefly run the air conditioner to make sure it cools OK
24) Make sure the electric portable heater is on board
25) Make sure the binoculars are on board
26) Make sure umbrellas are on board
27) Top up the engine fluids
28) Make sure the shovel is in it's storage cabinet
29) Make sure the crutches are on board
30) Make sure the walking sticks are on board
31) Make sure we have the camera on board
32) Make sure the laptop's USB photo storage stick is with the laptop
33) Make sure our reading books are on board
34) Make sure sunglasses are on board
35) Unroll and roll back up the awning to check for operability (if necessary, clean it and patch any tears)

You should consider changing your oil before going. Eight months is a long time for oil to sit, how many miles on the oil?

Check tire pressure before leaving home, and often during your trip when parked for the night.

Have fun.

I read the title and thought to myself....before a long road trip i try to convince the famliy to leave a week early ;)

As a maintenance fanatic i dont need to do anythjng different the weeks before a trip...

I think 2oldman's list is good. There are many things that, if forgotten, will make you slap your head.
If it has to be on the RV itself then I vote for sanitizing the fresh water system. Your C is pretty new so unless you've put a ton of miles on it shouldn't need anything. How's your generator, is it time for an oil change?

2oldman wrote:
Trip prep

Thanks! I meant more of check tires, etc. that kinda thing