RV Tips & Tricks

Camping guide

Has anyone received a gift of a free "rv and camping guide" from recreation group in california

Is tongue weight calculated in CGVWR?

I'm contemplating buying a pop-up trailer that would push the limits of my tow vehicle. I want to make sure I understand what all the figures mean. Let's use round figures to aid with our gorilla math.My combined max gross weight rating of my vehicle...

Kidde Fire Extinguisher recall

It looks likethis would cover most RV extinguishers all the way back to 1972 Recall

Tires

This was my horse trailer not my camper. Came home from a trip and parked the trailer. Unloaded the horses and was walking back towards the trailer when I heard a loud Kaboom. No name tires were 8 years old. My Bad. Ordered Goodyear Endurance tires n...

Escapees?

I did a search and didn't find anything much about the Escapees. For some reason I assumed that the group was a Class A bunch and never paid much attention to them. But I was reading a blog post on groups to join like KOA or Passport America and the ...

Winterizing kids Cruiser. Hot water tank question

Our old Skamper and our newer Cedar both have 3 valves at the hot water tank. The tank is isolated by closing the in line and the out line. The pipe joining the two lines has a valve that is then opened for winterizing. I didn’t have to tell you all ...

How do you store your power supply extension cord

Got my 30ft 50amp extension cord made.I don't want to just throw it into a storage booth. Did that in our old 5th wheel but it was a 30amp and the cord was not near as heavy. I did this for now until I can come up with something different or maybe th...

Ductless AC instead of roof mounted AC

In addition to my roof repairs I am replacing the AC unit on my trailer.Does anyone have any experience with the Mini Split Ductless AC Heat Pump reliability on an RV? I have seen installs on youtube and they all claim no problems with it. I worry ab...

Tow Dolly resurrection

I have an old tow dolly that I want to put back into service. It does not have brakes on it. I am wondering what is a better braking setup, drum brakes or disc brakes using the surge controller. I am more concerned with towing in the mountains than o...

RV Friendly Town in Australia

I'm sure this short video of how a town in Queensland Australia decided to do something extra to attract RVers to their region. We stayed there last year and will be back again next week... Maryborough is a fantastic and welcoming town.https://m.yout...

Rvers beware

Of strange laws https://youtu.be/IbyetN5_XTw

How Sad

This brought tears to my eyeshttps://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/woman-upset-by-humiliation-and-shame-at-dartmouth-campground/ar-AAFemnT?li=AAggFp5

Replaced my house batteries...

My house batteries, two four+ year old group 27 Interstate {Wet} Deep Cycles, have been on their last legs for at least 6 months. I kept stretching their life carefully topping them up before every other trip. The Hydometer showed them failing fast...

Sticky front of oven

The front of the Apollo half time oven is black- maybe plastic. No matter what I clean it with it stays sticky and looks streaked and nasty. What should I be using to clean the front of the unit? Is there a magic cleaner for RV appliances?

Tire Pressure

After recently getting back into Travel Trailer camping (took 12yrs off) I cant remember how much tire pressure I should run in my tow vehicle. I run a 2003 F250 Diesel on 31x10x50 10 ply tires Load Range E with max pressure of 80#. When I purchased ...

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