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Dometic Plant Closing
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this but thought my fellow Rv'ers would find this information interesting. Dometic has just announced in the past week that they will be closing their plant in Lagrange, Indiana permanently and putting 197 employees out of work. This will not affect the Swedish based Dometic's Elkhart plant. And the Lagrange Indiana plant production will be moved to none other than Mexico. Please think about this the next time you think about spending your money with Dometic.1.5KViews0likes5CommentsRe: About to become a reality
We fulltime in a 31 foot 5er for a number of reasons. We are primarily boondockers and prefer that lifestyle and the 31 footer fills that bill perfectly.You will find that if you ever want to use natl forest or natl parks for camping, that 40 plus footer is going to have an extremely hard time fitting into their campsites that were configured long before even 30 footers were around. In fact many if not most will tell you 30 foot is the limit yet time after time we do see 34 footers squeeze in. All in all that long rig is going to pose more problems than you might think, unless of course your wealthy and can afford to stay in a campground every night. Not trying to be negative, but just stating what I see as an issue based on your post of needing to work camp or work while traveling because of savings. Why not try a shorter rig and keep the 2500 to pull it with and if you still think a year down the road you need the big dually and the 40 plus footer and can afford them and it will fit where your prefer to go, then fine. By the way, we use a 2500 Dodge HD to pull our rig. Even doing volunteer work, your going to run into length issues. It just sounds again based on your savings and desires your biting off way more than need to try chewing on so early into fulltiming and that alone might very well spoil what could be a very wonderful life for you folks. And we haven't even discussed the added fuel costs, the 40 plus footer probably has a washer dryer too, which you need full hookups or one heck of a water source to use and I'll bet it has that house sized fridge you are not going to operate on a few hundred watts of solar setting on the ground. If I was looking you in the eye with my experience and I think most others will agree, I would literally beg you to go smaller to insure your happiness. Best to you folks and your dreams.472Views0likes0CommentsRe: Dometic DM2652 RBX
We feel for ya. We had the same fridge,quit just like that and then a few nights later I smell the ammonia.Heck, I was blaming it on the cats and darn near threw em out. Thankfully for me and the cats I checked the back panel and there was the dreaded yellow stuff. We too were naysayers about ever putting in a residential fridge until we looked thru the internet and you tube and a trip to menards with our tape measure made up our minds. What we got was more efficient even at higher altitudes, holds more food and uses far less power than we ever thought. We have 400 watts of solar and 4 agm batteries and it works great unless like most on solar, we have a cloudy day or two and then we give the batteries a generator boost for a few hours. When we are driving down the road, our truck alternator is charging all of our batteries anyway, and if this fridge goes out in a few years, a new one is 3 or 400 bucks and an easy install. And we are not camp grounder types. We are very serious boondockers and fulltimers and rarely stay at a campground. We are probably some of the few that never get our monies worth out of a Passport membership as we boondock so much. Yeah, We were ones that said NO, we never would on a residential fridge and now we say, NO, we'll never go back. It's a choice and not for everyone we are sure,but it sure was a no brainer for us. Best of luck with your fridge and hopefully it's just the thermistor,,,,,this time.263Views0likes0Comments
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