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Valve Stems

These do not look like metal valve stems to me. I just noticed it tonight. I was preparing to pump the pressures up on the G614s since the dealer only put 70-80 psi per wheel. Am I correct or is this a type of metal stem I'm not used to. Or is this t...

Swapping Dometic Fridge for Household Unit

Hey everyone!So i just bought a used 2004 Cardinal 31BH and the stock fridge has a shot cooling unit. I was told a new unit would cost around $1500 or repairing the existing unit by a local Amish guy would be around $650.So i pulled some measurement...

webejpn by Explorer
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Trying to buy a motorhome

Wife and I have been searching for a motor home to buy for a couple of month now with no success. I'm surprised by the number of sellers who either don't return our calls or emails or who get offended when you ask too many questions especially about ...

Keep it or trade it?

So we had an issue with our 5th wheel, water damage. I In the process of repairing the floor, the rig has delamination. We are putting allure flooring in and remiving all carpet. We bought the rig used a couple of years ago for 19k with the hope of ...

Southern Colorado

Does anyone have any recommendations for southern Colorado? We tend to gravitate to small towns that have a lot to offer. We will be looking for a good campground or rv park with full hookups. It has been hit or miss on the rv parks. Some had good re...

first timer

Hello everyonei hope that everyone's doing great!!! completely new to the rv lifestyle if would be interesting to hear some of your all stories to how you guys got to living on the road to some of the best moments you people have living the rv life!!...

wander by Explorer
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LED Flickers

I had something happen yesterday that has never happened, our overhead lighting in our motor home is LED. Yesterday we were in a thunderstorm and heavy rain. The LEDS ,on and off flickered and completely stopped flickering when rain and storm stopped...

Tire PSI

on my 2016 Ford F350 superduty dually 4x4 with Goodyear LT 245/75R/17E tires. The Door sticker says 75 front 65 rear cold.Tires say 80 PSI cold.Pardon my ignorance, but which one do I go by.I will be towing a heavy fifth wheel trailer.I questioned th...

peaeye1 by Explorer
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Crazy RVer Gets Arrested

I saw this news clip on another forum, and I just had to share it here. It may have been posted before, but I couldn't find it on our forum. This guy is lucky that he was only arrested and not seriously injured or killed during his antics:Crazy RVe...

TucsonJim by Explorer II
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Venting

RV park owner need to take responsibility for trimming trees so they do not damage our RV's. I am tired of pulling into RV parks scraping trees on the way to my site and then having a branch touching me when I put out the slides. I bought a little sa...

mrubaum by Explorer
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Thousand Trails Scam

Attended one of the Thousand Trails "We need to tell you about all the new opportunities your membership can provide"meetings This was in August of 2015. For attending they gave me with a certificate for a 3 day 2 night vacation package good for on...

bdpreece by Explorer II
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Blue Ox Patriot BRK2010 issues

I have a used (6 times) Blue Ox Patriot model BRK2010. Just having nearly no luck getting it set up and running in our 2000 CRV. The video I just watched says it should run in Mode Force for regular braking anf positonal if it;s a hybrid.Ran through ...

Rewind by Explorer
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