We have gone from tent camping to a pop-up to our first rv. We have just bought a new to us 2003 28ft R-Vision Trail Lite with two slides, and it had only a little over 4000 miles on it.
It does not have heated tanks, and I was wondering how important that is. Is it worth asking the dealer to put it on?
Only important if you plan to camp in the winter. If you use it seasonally (late spring to fall), and winterize it, you shouldn't need the heated tanks.
Well, we usually only camp seasonally becaue we had a pop-up. But now that we have the rv, we are thinking of traveling down to Florida during Christmas break.
Could I just empty the tanks of the winterizing fluids in December and be okay to travel South?
Believe it or not, I was at the Daytona 500 this year and it got down to 29 degrees at the camp ground. I thought I was getting away from any cold weather by going to Florida in February. Normally, you are safe to travel to Florida in the winter without heated tanks. (I did use mine on that trip though).
Joanne - Congratulations on your purchase of a Trail-Lite.
It should not be too difficult to install some black and gray tank heaters. If you read the B+ Motorhomes topic you will find some discussion about that very thing. Or do a search for more articles. We have done some winter traveling and it is great. Better to travel with a heater on than the A/C. Heat at night was either the propane furnace or an electric ceramic heater. All three tanks were empty, however, we hauled a 2 gallon water jug in the bathroom and a couple 1 gal. milk jugs of water for washing of hands and drinking. Before we left, put about 1/2 gallon of RV anti-freeze in the black and gray tank. As long as you do not dilute that drastically, we had no problems even down to 7 degrees above. Of course the dump valves may have been frozen, but we didn't try them until we got into a warmer climate.
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