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Unless they have made a major change from 2012, there is no steering lock on the late model Wrangers. They dropped the lock in 2010. My 2012 had no lock, and my current Grand Cherokee has no lock. If you left the key on Accessory, that is why the battery drained. It has been posted on more than one forum that the owner's manual is just plain incorrect in this regard. If you download the latest version of the 2014 Wangler Users Guide and go to the section on flat towing, you will find no mention of leaving the key in or disconnecting the battery. (I just did, Page 93) Go out and turn the wheel with the key in your pocket and see if I am wrong!

Did you have the ignition off and the key in your pocket? We towed a 2012 Wrangler Rubicon for multiple days many times with no battery issues!

If it's a 4X4 Wrangler, it's towable 4 down!

Do this. You will get the good, the bad, and the ugly. Maybe more than you want to know. TRVN is not affilliated with Tiffin Motor Homes.

The best smart phone is the one that the person that you are asking has, for surely he or she would only get the best for himself or herself!

Call Brannon Hutchinson at Custom RV in Vina, AL. (5 Miles from the Tiffin Plant) 256-668-0973. He has done several hundred of these swaps, on all sorts of coaches.

We've been fulltiming for 6 years, with two Beagles. No licenses required, just keep them up to date on their shots and have your records available. Dog licenses are municipal things which residents of the municipality must have, but they don't apply to visitors.

OP is a fulltimer. I doubt that he puts his coach in storage very often. I assume that he is referring to shutting the inverter off while he is occupying the coach. He states that the time time period that he is concerned about is when he is plugged into SP. Us fulltimers often sit in one spot for months at a time, and inverters can save our bacon if power is lost, especially when we have residential refers full of food.

According to Xantrex, Prosine Inverters are Pure Sine Wave (PSW) inverters. Assuming that this is true, there is no need to turn off the inverter ever. It is Modified Sine Wave (MSW) inverters that reek havoc on sensitive electronics.

As you state, it's ok as long a SP is on, but lose SP while the inverter is on and all bets are off. This is one reason why we changed to a PSW inverter when we upgraded our Refer to a Whirlpool residential. We lost several high end "Mr Coffee" units before we figured this out.

I would not tap into the electrical system at all on today's automobiles with computers running everything! A 2012 -2014 auto is way different from prior vehicles.

Separate wiring and bulbs in the tail light housing, Blue Ox, I think, but not sure since I did not do the physical installation. I don't think that it's LED. I did wire the Liberty, it was not too difficult. I had a place to work on things back then! (Before fulltiming) Today's automobiles have the electronics so deeply imbedded in them that I would be afraid to do anything that got into the electrical system!

I would give the new GC a year or so of life and experience before I purchased one. Having said that, I would do the same for any new automobile that is in the first year after a major overhauling and revamping. We have had multiple Jeeps, Cherokees, a Liberty, a 2007 Diesel Grand Cherokee, a 2012 Wrangler Rubicon, and now a 2012 Grand Cherokee Overland. The Overland is by far the plushest and most comfortable of the bunch. We have towed it for over 10k miles with no troubles. It does have the air suspension, and I have towed it with the suspension up and down. (Just forgot to raise it before towing.) We always lower the suspension when we park because my wife has had a hip replacement and lowering the suspension makes it much easier for her to get in and out. The hip replacement is the reason for trading the Wrangler for the GC. (I really wish that I could have my Wrangler back, but sometimes you have to make allowances for health issues.)

If you stay in one place for a long time, then move to another and stay a long time, then a trailer makes sense. Otherwise, IMHO a trailer is a PITA. (Unless you are determined to take your Porsche, Ferrari, or the like with you, then it makes perfect sense, to me! )

That's why they invented Automatic Generator Start! Mine is set to start if the voltage on the batteries drops below 12 V or if the front A/C wants to come on and shore power is not present. We have dogs who sometimes stay in the coach while we are away, and AGS set is a safety thing for them.

We have never turned our inverter off in 6 years of fulltiming in our coach, except when we changed the MSW inverter to a PSW inverter in conjunction with a Residental Refer install.

Every state in the US honors the requirements of the state that your license was issued in. They do not make out of state drivers meet their licensing requirements.

Texas requires a class B non CDL to drive a coach over 26K, Alabama does not! I drove motorhomes with an Alabama DL for years before I "moved" to Texas last year.

Alabama has no requirement for anything other than a class D license to operate RV's over 26,001 LBS!

Your rear driveshaft will turn when towed with the transfer case in neutral unless you have some kind of driveshaft disconnect on the Jeep, which you don't need.

You will find that all Cummins Diesels past 2010 need DEF. Phaetons prior to 2010 do not need DEF, newer ones do. The 2500 series Allison puts a limit on your towing capacity. If you will never tow a heavier toad, you will be ok. FWIW, a late model Jeep Wrangler is 4k+ lbs, a Grand Cherokee is at 5k lbs+.

Give Bankston in Huntsville a try.

Just be aware that 101 is not the Coastal Highway in California, it is the Coastal Highway in Oregon and Washington. CA1 is the Coastal Highway in California, from Northern CA all the way to the Los Angeles area. We drove the section of CA 1 from San Francisco north to where it intersects US 101 in Northern CA in a 31 foot Gasser towing a Jeep several years ago. It was an OK drive, a few tight places for the coach. We drove the section of CA 1 from San Francisco down to LA in our 40 footer towing a Jeep last year, It was not an OK drive, but we made it without incident. Many sections of CA 1 are restricted to RV's 40 feet or less. US 101 has no such restrictions.

As long as you stay on 101 you will be fine. You actually have to leave US101 in Northern CA and take CA 1 to ride the coast down to San Francisco. CA 1 is not a fun highway in a 40 ft caoch towing...

I have a Porter-Cable 4 gallon pancake compressor which has a 165 PSI capability. More importantly, it starts its recycle at 130 PSI. This is important if you are trying to inflate tires to 110-120 PSI. I ordered mine from Amazon, it was ballpark $180.00. t fits nicely in the front bay of my coach, is easy to get out when needed, and really does a good job on bike tires, etc. Also will shoot a nail gun really well, if such interests you.