5 things we don't love about our RV

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
Why buy a rv if there are five things you don't like about it?

Seems obvious to me - some things you don't recognize as lacking until you've had a chance to use the rig for some time, other things you recognize as lacking before you even buy the trailer but can't do anything about it anyway as that's how the manufacturer decided to equip that particular model. I've got both with my current trailer but none are show stoppers.

1) No vent over the bedroom area and therefore no way to install a powered vent fan. We had one in our previous rig and swore we'd never own another trailer without one but as it turned out the rig we have now otherwise suited our needs so well we had to move this from a "must have" to a "would have been nice to have". Since then I've acquired the roof blueprints and could cut a vent into the roof but all last season we instead used a window mounted 2-way 3-speed fan that solved the problem nicely without having to mod the trailer at all, at a fraction of the cost.

2) The bathroom is a bit small and I although I would have preferred a larger one with a glass wall neo angle shower that would have meant going to a longer trailer, which I really didn't want to do for a variety of reasons. In reality we're in there so little it really doesn't matter and the only real sticking point (literally!) was the shower curtain which would stick to us when showering. I've since solved that nicely with a PVC shaper that keeps the shower curtain well away from us and water inside the shower area where it belongs.

3) Outside, the trailer came with a Coleman grill that stores within the body of the camper ... dumb idea as an grill will introduce greasy cooking smells into the camper so I replaced it with my trusty Coleman camp stove that doesn't.

4) The trailer came with an LCI tongue jack and although it works fine the head is unnecessarily large and interferes with lowering our Avalanche's tailgate completely. Rotating the jack itself still doesn't provide enough clearance and the head itself can't be rotated so for now I live with it as a minor annoyance. If it hadn't come with the trailer I'd instead have installed an UltraFab 3502 on which the head can be rotated 180 degrees and most likely would have solved this problem.

5) This is a short dual axle trailer and as such the engineers decided in their infinite wisdom to set the axle spread at just 29" so there's just not quite enough space between the tires for my favourite BAL Dual Axle Chocks. I instead now use a set of rubber chocks between each tire set, each secured in place with hardwood spacers. Works just fine but I would have much preferred to continue using my BAL chocks.

Other than that there really isn't much else we don't like and hey, if the trailer was perfect I wouldn't have anything to mod! :W