kaypsmith

Some of the Kia's have gone to electronic steering. Nearly all of the newer vehicles that have electronic steering have been a problem when towed flat, ie. the death wobble seems to develop with them. This may be the reason Kia decided not to recomend flat towing except in emergency. I owned a 2014 Kia Soul that had electronic steering, that is a great improvement in steering over plain power steering. It was an automatic which required dolly towing anyway. I'm not saying that is what Kia is saying about their flat tow ability, it is only a suspicion of mine.

Can't understand why you don't live in Tennessee Carl!

Carl, what kind of welding machine did you use to weld onto that fiberglass? The devil made me do it LOL. Rewilla, that's a good looking setup.

Yes 4 wheel alignment is certainly in order, because a competent shop will be looking for worn parts, and with todays independent suspension there is a lot more parts to wear. Here is a very informative web site to look at with some good information. http://www.procarcare.com/includes/content/resourcecenter/encyclopedia/ch25/25re If the tires already have signs of cupping again, be sure the alignment shop has this condition pointed out to them. Just a little foot note on tow bars, if the end next to the toad is higher than the coach end, the pull downward puts undue weight on the front tires while pulling the load, while lightening the load on the rear tires, which can cause problems with the rear tires. About 30%, 3 out of 10 that I see rolling down the highways are improperly aligned.

Cupping is usually caused by imbalanced tires, or bad shocks or something loose on the suspension. There are other considerations, but these would be my first to have checked if cupping is the proper term for what is happening to your tires. If you are towing four down, make sure that the tow bar is parallel with a flat roadway that you are sitting on. Simply measure down from the front of the tow bar and also at the rear of the tow bar. If not pretty close to the same measurement, make the proper adjustment at the coach hitch to correct this problem.

Things change from year to year, but Spartan at one time built the largest number of chassis for fire trucks that was produced in the USA. My previous coach was a Cross Country by Sportscoach on a Spartan chassis. I will say that I loved driving it because it had a very close turn steering, good ride, and very stable on the road. That was a 1991 chassis and coach, and as stated by others, different models can vary.

Leon, we have camped for more than 35 years, motorhome for most of those, and only had a little mischief happen one time. Those type things that you mention, can and will happen though. But 60 gallons siphoned? That's 12 5 gallon cans full, lock on the fifth, I bet that he puts his own lock on it now. Best to ere on caution wherever you go, meet the neighbors that are parked next to you if you can, we are all out here for the same reasons, to enjoy ourselves and have a reasonably good time. I find it best to try to do just that, but use common sense at the same time. No matter where you go, even at home the old devil will be lurking, so as the BOY SCOUTS motto goes, "BE PREPARED". Also you could proudly display a "NRA" sign close to your tag and front door, I may be wrong but I bet even Maryland owners are allowed shotguns in the vehicle properly placed and unloaded, not to say it can't be loaded elsewhere. Video surveillance signs are not a bad idea either, most motorhomes do have a backup camera these days, a thief doesn't know if it is for both or not. Happy motoring and check out the campground, if it looks sleazy, it probably is.

Till I read this post, I didn't realize that Jeep even made a Cherokee, so now I have been enlightened also.

Since I'm carrying the golf cart most of the time, I use it to place the dolly. 2 inch ball on the back also comes in handy around the house for moving those bags of leaves. The golf cart is a miniature one, weighs only308# and is about half the size of a regular one but can carry up to 4 people unless they are the size that I used to be. P.S. works well on grass also, but not well in mud.

Herman, you are correct, diesel motor does not produce vacuum. Although I had a Ford dump truck with a 3206 Cat that used vacuum over hydraulic brakes. It was equipped with a vacuum pump instead of an air compressor. My bus uses an electrically activated water valve to control heat for the heating system, and there is no flapper on this system, and not all systems are alike.

This is intended for those that don't know, some do, some don't. There are guidelines for changing one of two tires when in a dual configuration. To calculate, one must have two mounted and equally aired tires and under no load. Measure the outside circumference "OC" of each at the center of the tread, if the two are no more than 3/4 inch difference, then they will be within quidelines, and should be ok. This is slightly under 1/4 inch in diameter, or tire height. Many times there is almost that much difference in two new tires unless specified matched pairs. and to do this, it would greatly increase the cost of the tires.

My wife and have a system to load and unload car on dolly, takes 5 minutes to load, and 3 to unload. And remember that I did not say any method was best for everybody. Remember, "Different strokes for different Folks", that was a sitcom, but it still applies here.

Bill, you have a point about possibilities, but, I will only rent from a REPUTABLE company. Just think how that would work out if a CEO flew into an airport and the car rental didn't have a car available after he a reserved one. I tell my DW often, if you didn't pick on me every once in a while, I would not think that you still love me.

On some occasions, I reserve a rental car at my destination, don't worry about towing at all. When not site seeing along the way to the destination this worked well for us. If anyone is not already equipped for towing and only travel a couple times a year, it will be cheaper to do this. Again, not true for everybody, but certainly an option.

You asked for it, you got CARL-OTA! Now that was easy, all I had to do was to click top right corner, "start new topic". 9 See FMCA Roadside Assistance

Here is my story and I'm sticking to it! I had already used 11 gig of my 12 that I was paying $80.00 per month for, and that was in 5 days. The bill was reduced to $65.00 per month and I am now into my 9th day in the billing cycle, my usage is still showing 0 with a note that says stream all you want your unlimited. I feel that I am still ahead of the game because I am saving $15.00 and the overage charge on the old plan is $10.00 gig. At work I have a 20 meg fiber line and a 90 meg cable internet service, I used to use these only for downloading and sending large files, and if the slowdown happens, I will go back to doing that. For right now though I am enjoying the fact that I can stream at home, and going to run test for several months. If this works out like I am hoping it will, I will change my DirecTV to basic service and save another $80.00 per month, and using internet tv for movies, I can watch the ones that I want and not have to pay for the ones that I don't. We live just far enough away from town that the phone company nor the cable company will provide service is why I use the Verizon service anyway. So I can actually say that I will be winning whatever happens. Oh by the way, the Verizon tower is 120 yards away on top of the same hill that I live on top of,

Thanks Bill, I am aware of that, just forgot to mention, that's when a trailer works well. Even some of the 4 wheel drives can't be towed 4 down or on a dolly.

Bill, I know that I am in the minority on this issue, but I like the ability to tow any vehicle that has front wheel drive, we currently own 4. This way I do not need to special equip 4 vehicles, ie transmission coolers, or have to shop for a special vehicle that allows recreational towing, or need to put supplemental braking on all of these, or move one unit between those. Also I like to carry the golf cart to a lot of places, and my dolly has provisions for that, as it is a tandem dolly. The dolly has surge brakes which is legal at this time in all states that I will be going. As I stated, I still prefer a trailer, which I have a car hauler also, but most campgrounds do not have facilities to store it unless I rent an extra space, which I am not going to do. Also the only time that I have ever had an issue towing was twice, and both times, I was towing 4 wheels down. Not trying to say that it is best for everybody by no means, but there are different issues for different circumstances. On the golf cart issue, I could place it in the back of the pickup truck, but I would need to add a driveshaft disconnect, and on and on. By the way if I used a manual tranny in most cases there would be no need for the dolly except that the BOSS, DW refuses to drive a straight shift!!!! Darned if you do, darned if you don't. Thanks for asking, Kay

Acme would be my choice if buying new also, but a PM to Joe sure can't hurt because Roadmaster is a very good brand. To send a private message, click on a member name or avatar, then message. Welcome to the forum! By the way, next to a trailer which really prefer but it is much harder to store it in a campground, I really like using a tow dolly over flat towing.

Bill, they may track it for their own use, but I had already used over 11 gig when I changed from my 12 gig plan. I changed over on the 19th of this month, and the monthly renewal date is the 14th on my bill. I requested changeover retroactive to the beginning of this current month, the data usage was reset to 0, and has remained there since, only three days so far, IT is what I do for a living and this has been a very busy month.

Here is a converter box http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/172364991994, very simple, just plug AVI cables to the box, and coax out of box to TV. Unless your tv is pretty old (crt style), it probably will have AVI located on the tv, most LCD/PLASMA/LED's usually have both hookups. And there is a device that can be added to the receiver that as DD69 said sends to all TV's within range, simply tune the tv to the correct channel required by the transmitter, last one that I bought, was $99.00 at Radio Shack.

I used Sprint hotspot for 2 years, before 4G, 3G back then, and it was so slow and coverage was so bad back then is why I went to Verizon 3G. Sprint was about 700 to 900 K with spotty service, Verizon 3G was 1.7 to 1.9 M at the same time,and it was almost the same price then. I currently am enjoying on 4G, 17 to 20M up and down on Verizon myfy, Also the newest U plan "says", no video slowdown. I put "says" in quotes because it does NOT say GUARANTEE.

Looks like Sprint is a pretty good deal, but their fine print only guarantees 23 gig per line at 4g speed. http://bgr.com/2017/02/14/verizon-unlimited-data-plan-details-fine-print/

Verizon has just introduced a truly UNLIMITED plan, it is designated with the the letter U. I changed over last week, was paying $80.00 for 12 gig, the U cost $65.00 and covers 10 devices. Here is copied and pasted from my data usage page. My plan: THE NEW VERIZON PLAN UNLIMITED View previous usage View international usage Stream all you want, you've got unlimited data

You will not need to use 5 gallons, 1 or 2 will do just fine for test run and carb cleaner purposes, the main issue is to get another fuel supply hose into the picture. I have seen many times that an old fuel hose caused the same issues that you are having. You may very well be having hard start issues, but I still think that the genset should not be bogging down enough to shut power off.