RE: Backing a trailer into a driveway/campsite. Help!
We went to a Life On Wheels thing, and got driving lessons. It was good.
crc
ETA: I remember at one point they said that you can turn left and pull forward four feet, then turn right and back up four feet, and repeat that sequence over and over. The effect is that you rotate the car without hardly moving the trailer.
Refrigerator needs to be level
So, I got this new RV, and the salesman says that (to oversimplify) when the refrigerator's running, it has to be level, perfectly level.
So I said, how level is perfectly level?
And he said the best thing to do is get a torpedo level (whatever that is) and put it on the freezer door. (You don't care, see, whether the floor is level; you want the freezer level.) And then open the door to get another reading at a right angle from the first one.
Fine, but then how level does it have to be?
He says that if it is more than fifteen degrees out of level, then I have to use the levelers or otherwise straighten up.
So, I go to the hardware store, find some torpedo levels, and they don't have degree markings. They just have the bubble between the two lines. Doesn't do me any good.
So I find a level that does have degree markings, and it turns out that fifteen degrees is really steep. It's, like, steeper than highways, steeper than any campsite I ever saw, steeper than my levelers could fantasize about coping with. You want to know how steep fifteen degrees is? It's about a third of the way to forty-five degrees; that's how steep. You couldn't sleep in a bed at fifteen degrees. You wouldn't ever make camp at fifteen degrees. I can't think why he raised the subject in the first place.
So I've come here to ask the internet is he had a brain fart. Did he slip a digit? Did he mean to say one and a half degrees? How level do RV refrigerators have to be?
crc
RE: How much fun would it be?
Make sure you aren't "buying a job." That is, make sure you get a return on investment in addition to your salary. Otherwise you are better off getting your salary from someone else and investing your money somewhere where it does bring a return on investment.
crc
RE: What would be the #1 improvement youd like to see made ?
We're putting a flip-up counter extension into our Jayco Seneca. It's an obvious and cheap improvement that they know they need. They should just do it.
All of the Kodiak-based units should have chassis upgrades available. I like the driver-information center in my GM pickup. I like the dual-zone air conditioning that lets my wife ride warmer than I do. I like lights that turn themselves on and off automatically. There's no reason those shouldn't be available in the Kodiak as they are in pickup trucks by the same manufacturer.
Kodiaks ought to come with working suspensions. Jayco says they'll fix it, but , judging by discussions here, they're having to fix so many of them that it's fair to say that they are being delivered with known design flaws.
crc
RE: Slideout lock question
I don't use them. I'm afraid of the destruction that would happen if I tried to run out the slide without removing them. If I ever do decide I need them, I'll attach something garish, a dayglo ribbon, perhaps, to hang over the front of the slide to remind me that there's something dangerous out of sight up there.
crc
RE: Folding Bicycles
Here's a link to a folding recumbant, the P-38 Voyager.
http://www.lightningbikes.com/new_page_2.htm
And here's another, the Linear Folding 2.0
http://www.linearrecumbent.com/linear_lwb_folding.htm
And the Bike Sat-R-Day:
http://129.79.22.9/satrday/index.html
wip
RE: New Jayco Seneca 34SS
Hi,
Our dealer told us they checked with jayco regarding a compartment big enough for a spare and were told by jayco that there is no room for the spare.
We just carry the tire. No wheel. Maybe that makes the difference?
crc
RE: JAYCO SENECA BACKUP CAMERA
Lets see if I understand this...did you just take the cover off? Or did you totally remount the camera? Ours is next to useless, cover fills with dust but still is very poor after cleaning the dust out.
Our new Seneca has the camera outside. The old one got dust outside the cover, inside the cover, and on the camera lens itself. So I had to keep climbing up on that ladder and taking the cover off to clean all three surfaces.
But then a service guy in Anchorage stuffed insulation in holes down at the bottom of the rear cap. After that, dust didn't get up there, and I only had to clean the outside. I didn't have to take the cover off to clean inside anymore. Big improvement!
I'm still tempted to replace our black and white system with color. And I lust after the three-camera systems that show you the sides of the vehicle when the turn signal is on. Shows you tree limbs when you are backing up, that you would never see in your mirrors.
We have a local electronics shop I would use, but they aren't Jayco dealers. I'm wondering if they could send off for permission to do the job so that I wouldn't get static about having had unauthorized work done every subsequent time I visit a Jayco shop.
crc
crc
RE: New Jayco Seneca 34SS
I have a 2006 34SS and we have a spare tire laying on its side on the hump of the first pass-thru storage compartment aft of the entry stairs. Unless Jayco has made that compartment smaller in 2008, it will fit without a problem.
It still fits fine.
crc
