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Where to find replacement furniture!
The “Halo” leather furniture in our Motor Home is pealing like crazy, so we want to replace our sleeper sofa, extra chair, and both captain chairs with new furniture. Our local RV repair shop gave us the name “Shop for seats”, but their website is very lacking, and they just don’t answer their phones! The thought of going to a “normal” furniture store with all of the dimensions sound a bit OK, but how can we be sure it can be bolted down into the slide out? Can anyone give us any ideas where to look for replacement furniture for our Motor Home?1.8KViews0likes8CommentsRe: Motor Home GPS Phone AP
Not exactly true! The Garmin has an RV mode where I was able to input the length, width, and height of my motor home. That is supposed to be the advertised reason for choosing the “Garmin RV 890 GPS” unit and running it in RV/Motor home mode! Yes the street through Lancaster was not RV impassable, but the recommended route to use the river ferry was impassable. I double checked with the owner of the campground and ferry. Motor homes and not allowed on the ferry and that is something that an RV rated GPS should know! If the GPS can’t take me to passable routes, I should just continue to use WAZE, it’s free! PS: before the motor home we also had a 38 foot fifth wheel towed by a Ford F350, long bed, crew cab!980Views0likes0CommentsRe: Motor Home GPS Phone AP
What a mistake! We listened to this post and decided on the Garmin 890. We just got home from our first trip with the new GPS, from North East, MD 21901 to Ferryboat Campsites in Liverpool, PA 17045. On the trip up to the campground, the Garmin took us through the center of downtown Lancaster PA. The road did not have an low overpasses, but it was stop and go on a crowded street where we passed 3 different delivery truck blocking one of the two lanes with parked cars on both sides. Like I said there were no obstructions, just some sharp downtown turns! Then, when we asked the Garmin for directions to get back home, the first thing it told us to do was to actually take the ferry across the Potomac River. First of all, the ferry is more of a visitor’s thing, it can only hold 3 cars at a time, but the Garmin wanted me to drive my 37 foot motorhome onto it with my car in tow! To top it off, the water level was low, so the ferry wasn’t even running for the past week! Time to call Garmin to see what I have to do to send it back within the first 30 days!981Views0likes0CommentsRe: Motor Home GPS Phone AP
My partner is leaning heavily on the Garman RV GPS system, but, while driving, there is no room to mount a sizable screen in front of me. Do any of the Garman versions come with an android phone interface? My WAZE app is just about useless because it will take us onto roads with low bridges. But it does have some great features that I’m hoping are available with a Garman Phone Interface (if one does exist). Will it talk to me and tell me when my next turn should happen? Will it show me an image of where I am on the road and where my next turn will happen? The screen I’m looking at right now on my home computer is for the RV 890 8 inch RV GPS Navigator. Like I said, I don’t have the space in front of me while I am driving to mount an 8 inch screen!981Views0likes0CommentsMotor Home GPS Phone AP
We used WAZE again to guide us from Codorus Campground to I83 South. Naturally, it gave us a route with a Rail Road overpass 12' 2" . We had to take a side road, block the road while we unhitched our car and back out onto the WAZE road in the opposite direction! WAZE is great for the car we tow, it uses real time traffic info to give us the fastest route from point A to point B. BUT, it does not allow you to enter the height of our Motor Home! Does anyone know of a good phone ap that can do both? Give us the best real time route that avoids low bridges! We are looking for an ap that will allow us to say we are a motor home and we are 12’ 8” high!7.2KViews0likes24CommentsAC Silencer
I’m sure that a lot of us have noticed how noisy our roof top A/C units can be. Looking at the latest issue of Family RVing, we noticed an ad from, of all places, WackO Products, for an RV A/C Silencer. The units are $189 each, and we have two AC units. We are seriously thinking of getting two of them, but before we do: Has anyone here ever tried one of their units, and how well did it work? Also, their website ordering page asks for a Coupon Code to get a discount, does anyone know of a working Coupon Code for WackO Products? Thanks in advance for any information you can give us!5.2KViews0likes16CommentsRe: Which EMS Surge Protector
pianotuna wrote: Far more damage is caused by low voltage than surges. I'd go to the fully featured Hughes autoformer with surge protection. Be aware that there is some controversy surrounding RVs and the use of autotransformers. The National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) stated a ban on the use of autotransformers due to the dangers they place on the campground’s electrical service. NFPA Code: NFPA 70 Article 551.72 (E,F) states, “The use of autotransformers shall not be permitted. The use of listed surge protectors shall be permitted.” Many campgrounds already ban the use of autotransformers, and more could do so in the future as a result of NFPA 70. If you have an autotransformer, sometimes referred to as an autoformer, it may be a good idea to ask the RV park that you are staying at if it is okay for you to use it at their facility.1.1KViews0likes0Comments
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