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I have towed a 24 foot Featherlite many miles with a 40 Safari Zanzibar or 43 foot Safari Panther and live in Colorado. Kay is right, always could be the element of you are too long. I in addition I use a "Trailer Toad" to keep the weight off the coach tongue and that adds another 3 feet. There is no bounce from uneven terrain created by the trailer even when loaded heavy,8,000 pounds plus. Toad has a live axle which is great. I also converted the trailer to disc brakes and when loaded heavy it will stop the coach not fast but a lot faster than the supplied "whoa" drum brakes. As for bottoming out a long trailer, yes and soon i installed rollers at the rear. Adding the Trailer Toad eliminated the issue. I have seldom had problems with space to park as we always call ahead to avoid that issue. Then again we dry camp more than we use campgrounds. Sometimes we have just unhooked and parked the trailer by itself. Fueling has it's issues too but planning pays off. Sometimes it is tight, but as a good driver with good perception and spacial awareness one can get in many places others would avoid, just ask me how I know! I have two trailers depending on the needs and flat tow too Have a great time and smell the roses.

I am cleaning house, I have a large container of R 12 if any of you with a 12 system needs it.

When I bought the Zanzibar I jumped in feet first, no gasser for me and glad I did. Up grading to the big engine Panther has been a ride of a lifetime. I have spent plenty getting both coaches to my level of expectation, but as a guy having spent years in the restoration business, that is what I do, make it better. Just how much fun can we have, I intend to find out in the next ten years and in the lap of comfort and luxury of my own efforts. Carl, all of those coach manufacturers have built good ones, worth a look in that time frame and reasonably priced today.

This last weekend an older 2000 something DP pusher heading up Mt Vernon Canyon out of the Denver area on I 70 caught fire. It burned to the ground as well the jeep being towed. This area is steep and the local temps have been pretty high, in the upper 80s and into the mid 90s. Suggest checking all cooling systems before heading up into the high country. We had friends come through over the 4th of July. He had a really trick FOAM fire suppression system aboard and into the engine compartment . It was an uncharged foam fire suppression system which he installed. Sensors in the compartment fire a CO2 charge to set it off. It has suppression and cooling effect. Nice and simple and not all that big either.

I too have the Goodyear HSA tires and the ride, wear and appearance after 3 years and 20 thousand miles is as expected. Perfectly happy and the price was fine as well at $500 each mounted and balanced.

Safari Friend to Safari Friend NAPA will have it I sent you a PM

Rich, Thanks for the link as I did not have this info and I have a problem on the Z to deal with...B

What is the issue? I installed it, the system in my coach with no problems and my wife called Direct when we had it all set up and the rest was done over the phone. Are you installing a new antenna as well like a Traveler...? I so a tech will be of some help for sure.

Joe I know that Northwest RV Supply has shades on the shelf, motors not so sure B

Yup Carefree mine look just like that Joe and are out of the box ready to install. B

And the rest of the information Rich....Where to get them as in source???

Making me go Hummmm, what if... and it is 12 volts... b

There is the Jefferson County Park 303 321 6600 off 6th Ave and Indiana St and there is Dakota Ridge 303 279 1625 very close by the county grounds. Get hot both may be full Dakota Ridge would be my last choice. There is also Clear Creek RV Park tied to the city of Golden. I do not know anything about it but shows 5 stars

There are also the Bad Land an amazing geological hindrance to those settling the West. Oh there is way more to see than what has been listed here and will take you some serious time to see. It is like going from western Arizona to Florida for us. We thought two weeks would be adequate, nope it should have been a month, so much to see. It will be easy to take a day at Crazy Horse to see the museum, now nearly ten years old and the "Crazy Horse", another day to see Mt. Rushmore and several more days to see the "Park" areas around rapid City to say nothing about Sturgis, Deadwood and the other small towns. As you approach Rapid City on I 90 take exit 131 south and at least drive through the Bad lands. It is a good road no big hills but the scenery amazing.

It is an "old" guy thing happens all the time.

I have to go look at that one, don't remember it. It has been decades since I was in Mexican Hat and in a Porsche I am sure...grade would make no difference.

Oh goodness yes...The RV Park just outside the West park entrance is terrific. We spent three days there. If I were able to still hike it would have been a week! If you have an ATV or UTV there are many trails on the RV Park site which are worth a ride for sure. Utilize the park bus service, it is very good. Since you are going then to MOAB, go out the back way 12 from Bryce it is a stunning drive and through Capital Reef National Park and then 24 to Hanksville and 95 over to Blanding and up 191 to Moab. See everything you have time to stop and see, it is all amazing, many places to stop and dry camp. I have in the 80s backpacked more than 200 miles of the back country in this area and never tired of it. Near Escalante and just north is Boulder and in between is Box Death Hollow Wilderness. I backpacked that, the Boulder Mail Trail from Boulder to Escalante with 8 Boy Scouts. The canyon is better than a thousand feet deep, spectacular. Somewhere along the line 3 burros were lost over the edge of the trail hence the name.

I too have an old coach 1999 and would not trade for a new one reading what is published here. Problems occur no matter what the year. You know what yours are, why go for another so you have more experience and spend more money. I agree with Desertdeals on the pay cash perspective, no debt and what I do have I would like to spend on the travel, sites and meeting new people. You will spend a lot less making upgrades and paying it off.

I too have been all over that area and roads are great, no big hills and plenty of places to pull off and dry camp/stop for the night. Beautiful area

The product is Imron from Dupont is a pure urethane not an acrylic urethane, hard as the bricks of **** and almost impossible to do anything with once fully cured. No you do not want it on the car. It is not friendly when repairs need to be made. Pay twice once to install/spray it and again to get the stuff off. Terribly toxic to spray.

Really need the OP to help us...really not much to this except determining which curve so we can answer with some degree of accuracy. Right now we are shooting at nats

Where is the OP??? so we know if we are on the right track.

if it is rusty it is not stainless and yes you can buy a tip for under 75 bucks, chromed or stainless.

First an examination and then the decision...

Ian, In the WEST heading from Denver or our case Evergreen, Grand Junction is 235 miles west...too soon for a stop and a very easy drive, another 150 to Green River and nothing there so far as a n RV park. So it is a dry camp someplace. From there WEST nothing for a long ways if on I 70 except many places to Dry Camp I know many are older or younger than I am at 72. I can still roll a very long ways once, not day after day. 2012 I did 1196 miles in 15 hours, albeit in a Porsche and by myself and rolling West...fun and in a turbo Porsche. I will not argue it is much more difficult the further East one goes to make any kind of time. For the most part making time like the 650 for a couple days or three in a row is for guys like Joe with little time for seeing the same thing over and over heading for places unseen and with teens already impatient with not getting there yesterday. At his age recovery is quick. I still think I am fifty, it does not take long to find out that is not the case. It is like being married and looking at pretty younger girls and ladies. Just because I am on diet does not mean I can not look at the menu.