Can you see the problem with this picture? Guess who gets to find out how to jack a fully loaded trailer, pull a wheel and fix a flat. 90% I picked it up within a mile or two of home. Around here, letting stuff fall off the back of a truck is a sport. Wife managed to get a spark plug once. Can’t see what it is on this one yet. Probably a nail or a screw.
8 days minimum at 5 hours of driving per day. How hard do the veterans think it will be to find a random campsite while on the road?
Wife insists we must have reservations before even starting our journey.
Me, I’d prefer a sense of adventure and find sites along the way while the other is driving.
This Indie Camper is or can be self contained. Sure we’ll need water and we’ll need to dump at some point but will finding a small place to park at a campground be that difficult? Will everything be booked? Do all campsites require reservations in advance?
Thanks in advance.
Am I crazy to want one of these? Camper is in reasonable shape and motor is only 50K miles. It would be our first camper with some small children bumbing around east coast Canada.
Having quite the heat wave in New York. I’ve had my unit running for about 48 hours straight and tonight at sunset I started to have quite a bit of water come in through the intake and blower vents. I opened up the unit up top and cleaned out the fins from a bunch of dust.
Two hours later and the water is dripping. Not as bad but it’s happening.
Any ideas on what’s causing it?
I circled where the droplets were coming in from on the photo below!
My partner asked me to post, as he quit Reddit.
We have a 2024 Subaru Ascent Onyx Limited and we are towing a Shasta 18BH camper. We have tried several things to reduce our tongue weight.
How can we get it under the 500lb max?
Here are our weights done at a CAT scale.
Getting my rig ready for some summer boondocking (mostly running solar + 12V setup), and I picked up a 12V Inverter RV AC to stay comfortable off-grid.
The unit itself seems solid and works fine, but I noticed something during install that I wasn’t fully expecting.
It’s perfect for a 12" × 14" opening, while my RV already has the standard 14" × 14" cut-out, so there’s a bit of extra space around the frame once everything is mounted.
The turbrostore says they can provide a decorative wood trim panel to cover the gap, which sounds straightforward enough.
Just wondering what people usually do in real-world installs:
use the provided trim panel and keep it simple? build a custom wood frame / interior finish to make it look more “built-in”? or just seal it clean and let the interior cover hide most of it?
Trying to keep it clean and solid for long summer trips off-grid, so curious what’s worked best for others.
We recently became the owners of our first motorhome (2013 Forest River Forester 3011DS), and we're absolutely loving it so far!
The one thing we haven't been able to figure out is the factory DVD/TV system. I'm hoping someone here has experience with this setup.
The Magnadyne console in the dash plays DVDs perfectly on its own screen. When we insert a DVD, it asks us to select an output (AV1 or AV2). We've tried both options.
The coach has a video distribution box below the main TV, and we've selected DVD for all three outputs (Front TV, Rear TV, and Exterior TV). However, neither the front living room TV nor the bedroom TV will display the DVD. We've cycled through every input on both TVs (TV, AV, HDMI 1, HDMI 2, Media, etc.), and every input either says "No Signal" or "No Media Device."
At this point, I'm wondering if we're missing a setting, if there's another switch somewhere, or if this was a common issue with the factory Magnadyne/video distribution setup.
Has anyone with a similar Forester or Forest River coach run into this before? Any ideas on what to check next would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Hi all I’m in a crossroads cruiser 2005 and 3 110v sockets don’t work, they are controlled by the second from bottom breaker switch. I replaced the breaker switch and have checked the connections at the back of each socket. They stopped working one day when overloaded (gf was using a dehumidifier and heater) and now I’m stumped and so was the electrician who just came out to take a look
If anyone has any ideas it would be much appreciated!
We only have experience with travel trailers. How easy is it setting up a 5th wheel at a campsite and hooking up when leaving? I ask because my wife and her sisters always have an annual sister’s trip. I wonder if she or they could pull it off on a trip to a destination place.
I have the tow vehicle (26 Ram 2500 6.4L with tow prep).
We currently have a 34’ cheerokee 263gdk travel trailer. We have been looking at possibly upgrading to an A or C between 28-36’. We travel with 2 adults, a 12yo, 2 dogs, and a bearded dragon.
Those of you who have had towable and driveables, which did you prefer and why? Any suggestions for models we should be looking at? Probably thinking used, my daily driver is a wrangler that we will use as a toad.
We’re looking to rent an RV to stay 3 nights in Kirk Creek CA. Which companies do you recommend? We’re 2 persons looking for something with a bathroom and possibly fully loaded with camping equipment
I live in a 2011 Forrest River Wildcat. The main (LR) slider is not settling into place when fully extended. The bottom is all the way out and seated where it is supposed to but the top is in by 2-3 inches. The trailer is level, I have looked all round the perimeter and nothing appears to be binding. You can push the top out by hand but it doesn’t stay.
Because it is leaning in a bit the rainwater doesn’t flow out but instead pools against the flange.
Ideas?