Greywolf,

What your posting tips? Where you been hiding them?

You know i am giving you crap!

Of course you are doing a Great Job, Keep up the good work and posting all the great info that you share.

How about a short how to on surveying a used RV to purchase.

How to properly winterize & store your RV.

Keep the Great Info coming

 

Yessir, they've all looked like good, useful info to me.


How 'bout some tips, do's and don'ts on trailer bearings? Seems like I've seen fried bearings ruin more than a few trips for folks towing trailers.

My apologies if you've addressed the issue already.

 

You want the short skinny? okay - I'll hand it to you in a nutshell.

LOOK FOR ANY AND ALL WATER DAMAGE ANYWHERE, no matter how good the roof looks.

People selling old RV's fix their stupid mistakes at the very last minute, but the traces of their neglect are plain to see in rotten structures, and new roof seals.

If the trailer or motor home sides are soft - they have gone to pieces, and you don't want anything to do with that.

Would you buy a house with termites in it? Water rotted wood is the same thing - it's falling apart.

You can see it by looking down the sides, like a body man looking for ripples in paint, or a carpenter seeing how straight a cut in wood is. It will show.

Aluminum side trailers don't bulge as much - it's hard to tell if what is under the sides is solid.

THUMP it.

Your worst enemy is rotten wood structures, and the first cause is the roof, or a leak inside.

BATHROOM AREAS are also notorious. If the flooring in front of the shower, or around the potty "GIVES" when you step on it - it's just plain GONE.

Any area of floor that feels spongey is rotted.

If none of the above appears, look to see if small areas of carpet around the potty for one - look like the carpet is higher....

This is a sign that a smal area has been replaced with new wood, because it rotted out under it. ALL floor areas should be even.

Look beneath anything with water connected to it for damage and weak spots or areas.

And have EVERY SINGLE APPLIANCE IN THE MOTOR HOME DEMONSTRATED (including the furnace in summer, and the A/C in winter).

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ACCEPT A COACH THAT HAS NOT HAD AN LPG GAS LEAK CHECK PERFORMED BY A CERTIFIED RV TECH.

~Wolf out