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I set a timer to have my engine block heat come on about four hours before departure. If really cold, I give it another two hours. Also put a trouble light with a 60 watt old style bulb to warm the starting batteries.

Usually we run less than 10k a year. Therefore, any synthetic oil is over kill for our engine and generator. In fact my owner's manual says to change the oil at 35k or one year, which ever comes first. I use Rotella 15W40, and have used it on four diesels. The beast I'm currently driving takes 42 quarts at oil change time. Once out of warranty, I may do like I do with my Allison 4000 and have the oil sampled once year....and not change it annually.

The Aqua Hot is a great system, but if it is really cold, it will not keep your dump T handles from freezing. The way I keep anything from freezing is multiple trouble lights with 60 watt bulbs (old style that get warm). On one winter trip...heading south...the Cummins never got over 180 degrees, even after driving all day.

During my inverter issue about 18 months ago, I had several discussions with the techs at Magnum. Bottom line, it makes no difference whether on or off, other than it draws some power when on, even if not actually inverting.

The ideal situation would be to tow a pickup with a M/C in the bed.

If it's a Magnum, it is drawing a little power. That's why I keep mine off unless using it.

Are you going to drop the coach and leave it, or stay while they do the work? They should tell you how things work there for each situation.

Here are a couple of suggestions, Joe: - Brett's suggestion of Downtown Riverside, on the north bank of the AR River in Little Rock, is a Campground America CG. However, I do not recommend the Clinton Library. - Off I 40, Exit 108 Parker's Crossroads, Yuma, TN. About 110 miles east of Memphis. - Farther east off I 40, Exit 360 Soaring Eagles, listed in Lenoir City, a little west of Knoxville.

Depends on where you will be. We spend lots of time in Biloxi, MS. There the problem is the water is so soft you can't get the soap off after showering.

Most 45' coaches with tag axles will drive better and handle adverse conditions (cross winds) better than short not tag coaches.

As far as side to side weight differential is concerned, one of my manuals, don't recall if it was Spartan or Freightliner, said the maximum difference should be no more than 5%.

Hi Ken...been reading your posts for years on different forums, had a different user name then. Yours seem to be more of the level headed thought out kind posts than many....maybe that's because we agree on lots of RV topics. Used to have an 07 Montana before getting in the MH business in 2010. We pulled into a CG one evening when it was just getting dark, but about 45 degees and pouring rain...that was our last trip in the 5th wheel.

If you have a diesel coach engine and a diesel generator, sure makes it easy to use the same oil. If it's good enough for the engine, it's certainly good enough for the generator.

I have a Blue Ox base plate, tow bars and a Patriot II braking system....all works fine.

There doesn't seem to many DPs with tags and IFS with any kind of steering assist.

It all depends on how many techs they send to the rally. At the last rally I attended, BO sold so many units, the tech was delivering them to the coaches that purchased them, but had no time to install anything.

To tell you the truth, I don't exactly remember other than the Central Monitor Panel indicated there was a problem with the L1 line.

Why don't you tell us what you really think, Carl??

I did the numbers, and on our coach, we burn less fuel in an hour running the 10KW Onan and the roof air (s), than running the dash air. Once I turn on the dash air, the big fan starts, and fuel mileage drops about two MPG.

Some of the electrical systems/surge guards on these coaches are smarter than the power stalks. Recently, we plugged into 50 amps and the surge guard would not let the power through to the coach. Local guy from the CG checked and said the power stalk was good. I convinced him to put in a new circuit breaker....all was fixed.

The owner's manual should spell out the EXACT step by step procedures for towing... these things change year to year.

These two posts are my experience exactly. Decatur was great, fixed what they were supposed to fix as well as another item I did not even mention...without charge. I've been to Alvarado three times...horrible experience, didn't fix what was to have been fixed, attempted to fix other items that didn't stay fixed and refused to order parts until I got there...thus they never arrived. When the part finally arrived they mailed to me (because I was on a schedule and left) and I fixed that problem myself. Hope I never have to go there again.

Do you have a separate rider in your insurance policy for your windshield?

The speed I mentioned in my initial post referred to the opening of the FMCA site. Once on the site and on the forum the speed is fine. I timed it today, from the time I clicked on the FMCA link until it opened was 20 seconds. All the other forum open without the last zero on that number.

Same here...virtually no mention of broken residential refers on any forums I'm on..or flat screen TVs for that matter.