RV Camping; Tips, tricks & repairs

[prae]

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the reason they are "full" is that they have a hundred or so of their own rental units in there. Most summers the German and UK tourists rent them soldily. They are all hail damaged now too. That storm on June 13th hit that area hard. Lucky I was away that weekend. The lesson is to camp lots!

Ahhh- that makes a lot of sense. Yeah I saw a few golf ball’d rigs. I dropped off the night of the tornado warning, thankfully the lot was unscathed.

[ExtraSlow]

The rental units are all fibreglass sides, so that isn't normally damaged, but the skylights and vent caps were destroyed. I was on the roof of mine there and it was a war zone of red tuck tape up there.

[Brent.ff]

Ya thanks, I’m locked in till April but I’ll look at them next year. Our place is definitely rinky dink, gonna load the trailer with mice traps this winter

[ExtraSlow]

And dryer sheets and the dollar store dehumidifier things. $20 at the dollar store well spent.

[redblack]

If anyone needs propane bottles Home Depot has 4-1lb packs for $11.82.
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/ber...ck-/1000739380

[Tik-Tok]

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And dryer sheets and the dollar store dehumidifier things. $20 at the dollar store well spent.

I used an entire box of Costco sized dryer sheets last winter, and not one mouse or turd to be found. The trailer smelled so fresh the first use too.

[FraserB]

Soap and dryer sheets are the biggest myths when it comes to mice, but it keeps getting spread around for some reason. Make sure you don't have holes for them to crawl in, don't have a dump of a trailer and you'll be good.

[Tik-Tok]

I have scientifically proven that dryer sheets work from my single mouse free winter.

[prae]

Anecdata is best data

[prae]

No tank swap offered (or perhaps just no recert 30lb'ers available) at the Fill n Go but it was painless to drop off my expired tank and should be much cheaper than a brand new 30lb tank.

chill guys there.

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah they don't always have 30 lb tanks around. Usually only a couple, and if someone buys em in the morning. They can run out. Small shop, chill guys.

[justincalgary78]

I've been at Stowaway since last October. Nothing but good things to be said.

Great write up about them. Only thing missing is potable water fill up is free. They also sell firewood, but its pricey.

[prae]

Just picked up one of https://www.costco.ca/unique-portabl...100425835.html off kijiji for a song. We'll see how our 5-year-old group 24 manages on a trip this weekend.

[ExtraSlow]

I knew from last year that two of my trailer tires were quite worn on the inside edge from a misaligned axle. I got an alignment at standens, but I was trying to avoid buying new tires, because I'm a cheap ass. Well, realized today as I was preparing to leave on a trip tomorrow that one tire was much worse than I remembered. Like down to the steel belts. Fuck.
Realized this about 1pm. Called urban X north, they ordered me two tires, which came in around 245pm. I ripped straight over and I was bavk home and had then in the trailer by 4pm. I just don't think it could have been done any faster.

Once again excellent service from UrbanX. Bob must have a day off, but Kenny and that Scotsman took good care of me.

Really hope that these ones wear evenly, because if they don't I will be very pissed.

So, you RV types, don't forget UrbanX does trailer tires too.

[nzwasp]

Good to know.

So i just tried undoing the bolts on my reese trailer hitch to turn it upside down and it does not budge at all. Any tips other than taking it somewhere to undo these two bolts? I think they are about 1 2/16" size

[FraserB]

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Good to know.

So i just tried undoing the bolts on my reese trailer hitch to turn it upside down and it does not budge at all. Any tips other than taking it somewhere to undo these two bolts? I think they are about 1 2/16" size

Pipe wrench, breaker bar and two people. Torque on those is like 300 ft lbs, so you’ll need a good amount of force to undo and redo them

[cam_wmh]

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Yeah we rented the same one for our trip in June. Decent power, can't really complain for a rental. I felt the V10 had enough 'extra' power to be able to tow a car or boat behind.

It was crazy cheap in June with their 20% deal... we paid 80/night + .35/km. Looks like its up to 120/night now for July and August.

Did you have any issues with yours? We had a small leak from behind the kitchen sink (i think it had something to do with water pump) but besides that it was pretty good.

A small bit of propane smell at times. Levellers would’ve been nice at Pierre Grey, but other than that, solid.

We drove 2,500km, on a 15 day rental. I paid $2,650 A couple sites out of the way, but a loop basically of GP, to FSJ, to PG & home.

Seems like decent value.

Still calculating fuel, as the lady was paying for that. Damn expensive fill ups though. ($250 maxed)

[ExtraSlow]

Got tucked away at Stow-Away this afternoon. Used the dump at CanaDream one last time. Have a couple weeks of non-camping now, so trailer will be sitting until mid-Aug. Brought the batteries home to leave on the tender.

[nzwasp]

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Pipe wrench, breaker bar and two people. Torque on those is like 300 ft lbs, so you’ll need a good amount of force to undo and redo them

Took it to the hitch shop and they just cut the bottom of the mount off so now I have more clearance. Although I fully loaded my trailer today and I had about 3” of clearance once I took the tension bars off.

[r3ccOs]

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Took it to the hitch shop and they just cut the bottom of the mount off so now I have more clearance. Although I fully loaded my trailer today and I had about 3” of clearance once I took the tension bars off.

Anyone know where to find 30lb tanks? - Costco/Cantire around me is sold out


Also buddy of mine has a weird issue - his toilet keeps getting clogged. We realize that the Thetford toilet is not directly over the black tank and has this odd waterslide from the 3" pipe towards the black tank - Any advise?

He uses RV paper and has 4 girls and a wife lol

TThe way he gets the clog out is boiling hot water and a stick