RV Camping; Tips, tricks & repairs

[S-FLY]

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Do any of you use an outdoor shower to wash off after the beach. We have one of those portable shower black bags that we put on top of the trailer and it heats up to 40 degrees in the sun. However due to a lack of privacy we have to hold towels up around our kids,

I've seen these pop-up enclosures used with the type of portable shower thing that you have:
*Edit* D'z Nuts posted the same thing above.

[haggis88]

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Well, I have over the years learned some things about axles bearing and brakes and I think thats going to be a factor of I buy new.
Having a 7500lb trailer with 2x 3500lb axles is not a winning recipe even if you can make the math squeak by.

Been watching a lot of CamperKingdom vids on YT, just to dream a bit.

So many of these new 5th Wheels that he shows, first thing he says is "This is a 15000# dry weight, so you're gonna need to make sure your tow vehicle is up to it"

When he's describing the axles, he comments that "It's on two 7000# [insert manufacturer] axles, with nice aloooominum wheels and load range G tires"

Now, my marth might be off here, but if dry weight is already over the axle limit, then how the fuck do you tow the trailer?

[Tik-Tok]

Because the truck is carrying some of that load.

[ExtraSlow]

It's legal and acceptable to minus hitch weight off gvw and assume what's left goes on the axles. Not great mind you, but actually common.

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Because the truck is carrying some of that load.

Yeah, that's the math explained more simply.

[haggis88]

Gotcha!

So the fact the pin weight is almost 2500# means the axles are really only splitting 12500#, IE: they have roughly 750# each to play with?

Doesn't seem like a lot of allowance for clothes/beer/hotdogs?

[killramos]

I don’t think math is front and Center in the decision making process to buy a 15,000lb trailer.

[Tik-Tok]

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Doesn't seem like a lot of allowance for clothes/beer/hotdogs?

Manufacturers don't care how much extra weight you can carry, as long as it passes legal requirements. Most consumers don't even pay attention to their loads either. "Muh truck is rated for 15,000lbs towing, so I'm buying a 15,000lbs trailer."

[haggis88]

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I don’t think math is front and Center in the decision making process to buy a 15,000lb trailer.

My thought is the people buying them still measure them in furlongs and weigh them in hundredweights, before having them delivered to a lake lot they bought for 2 and sixpence in 1903

[killramos]

Everyone I know with one of these. Does exactly that.

Might as well just have it delivered from factory and skip the truck.

[suntan]

Can this pull that?

[killramos]

Potentially. But considering it has a rear storage rack on the hitch. You sure it was the tow vehicle?

Sequoias are real trucks to the best of my knowledge.

[suntan]

Yes, I saw him pull in with it.

Picture is a bit misleading, that's not his storage rack, that's from the site next to his.

[dromz]

We were camping in Elkwood last year and a guy pulls in next to us with a CRV and good size single axle trailer and wife and three teens. I don't think he payed too attention to weights and such. I can't believe what I've seen people pulling trailers with.

[haggis88]

He's probably close to his limit there with that Sequoia

Is it true that European equivalents of cars have higher tow ratings? Usually diesel Volvo wagons are the tow vehicle of choice in the UK

[ExtraSlow]

There's some great stuff every long weekend. I've posted a few solid ones.

[spike98]

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Can this pull that?

No, 100% not. Payload for sure is over.

[roopi]

First weekend with generator was a fail. It would run for 20 minutes and then sputter and the overload light would come on. I guess I never really thought about what I was buying and the requirements. I wanted to run the AC for an hour or so in the afternoon to cool off the trailer. Then I started thinking that my interior and exterior fridges are both electric so mostly likely causing this.

So returning the Firman and will look for something else. Have to pay Honda money I think.

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He's probably close to his limit there with that Sequoia

Is it true that European equivalents of cars have higher tow ratings? Usually diesel Volvo wagons are the tow vehicle of choice in the UK

They are rated higher because the government standards are lower.

[16hypen3sp]

Wife's uncle told us about his coworker who had his utility trailer stolen. It was abandoned near some pharmacy in Calgary. Pharm called the number on the trailer to ask why it was in their lot. Owner told them it had been stolen and he'd be right there. He had called CPS earlier so he called them again telling them where it was. He and CPS all met up at the trailer.

Did the police stuff (everything in the trailer was gone) and he hooked up to it to take it home. Cops stop him as he is about to leave telling him he can't take it without the trailer coupler being locked on the ball.

Like locked.... with a padlock. Cotter pin wasn't good enough for them.

????????

He ran and got a small padlock to get it home.

[ExtraSlow]

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First weekend with generator was a fail. It would run for 20 minutes and then sputter and the overload light would come on. I guess I never really thought about what I was buying and the requirements. I wanted to run the AC for an hour or so in the afternoon to cool off the trailer. Then I started thinking that my interior and exterior fridges are both electric so mostly likely causing this.

So returning the Firman and will look for something else. Have to pay Honda money I think.

To run the AC, you'd better turn off both fridges and the 12v converter.