RV Lessons Learned – tips for buying, maintaining and repairing an RV
How to Buy a RV: New vs. Used Welcome to Part 2 in our How to buy a RV Series. (UPDATED Nov. 2020) This post explores the merits of buying a NEW vs. a USED RV. If you missed part 1, click HERE to access the first post in this series which discusses WHEN to buy …
How to Buy an RV – First of a series, When to purchase NOTE: I originally wrote this “How to buy” series in Jan. 2016, I’m updating it (the written narrative ONLY, not the videos) in November 2020. When I created the videos (in 2016), I was working in sales for an RV dealer in …
RV Refrigerators in Winter One of my neighbors actually expressed this about his Norcold RV Refrigerator in almost those exact words last week. We had several days of temperatures falling to -10F at night and only rising to near 20F each afternoon – and well… he made every mistake in the book! Watch my video …
I’m glad I spent this past summer working at an RV dealer (in Wyoming) – it taught me to EXPECT equipment failures in my 5th wheel (as if I didn’t already KNOW it from 3+ years on the road!) As I watched the parade of travel trailers, fifth wheels, and motorhomes pass through our service …
RV Repair in Helena Montana – and – testing out my new Extended Warranty (Extended Service Contract) Its Monday morning (10/12/15) and I awoke early to make a scheduled appointment for a needed repair to my fifth wheel. It is also an opportunity for me to “test out” my (recently purchased) extended warranty (extended service …
Full Timing and RV Quality Quality is an important issue – especially to a full time RV’er. Spending time fixing poorly designed aspects of your RV is both expensive and a waste of time. I’ve been a “full timer” for about 42 months now and I gotta say, I have identified a few things on …
Purchasing a new vehicle… Remember the excitement? Anticipation? Then comes the “meeting” with the finance guy (or girl) and the offers – extended this, premium that, you know. In most cases, I go with just say “no”, but… there were two I opted for this time… The Ford Extended Service Maintenance Plan – and a road …
Two weeks in and the shiny new RV’s are lined up across the street from my office – all begging for owners to hitch them to their vehicles and take them to all kinds of neat places. Fifth wheels, travel trailers, and toy haulers, each offering their own lifestyle reach out to those who yearn …
The weekend sale here at Stalkups in Casper has come and gone – and here is a quick post sharing just one lesson I learned… The road to the RV Lifestyle of their dreams for many Americans lies in a loan with good terms… Over the course of the weekend at Stalkups “RV Event”, I …
RV LIFESTYLE Yes, absolutely! Would I rather be doing anything else? Nope. Do I enjoy seeing LOTS of new places? Yep. Meeting new folks? Yep. But, sharing the RV Lifestyle is only part of the reason I started this website (RV Across America) AND a RV Lifestyle Facebook Group (<–click the link if you have not yet …
