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It must be on older models, we were only shopping 2005 and older. You ever ride the monorail at Disney? it was kind of like that

What I always found interesting with Newmar was the slides talk to you when you press the button to deploy them, first one we looked at I got to laughing.

I have three on mine, one on each side and a back up alarm! Every time I put the turn signals on that specific side beeps, wow does that get annoying driving down the road changing lanes, when your foot is on the brake the side ones cancel so you get to keep your sanity at a traffic light. On a good note there is a cancel switch on the dash which I use when backing into a site so I can hear the DW talking in the microphone.

Ok, wire on present day vehicles has become a serious problem in several aspects! The jacketing on some specifications is made from corn in an effort to become GREEN . The photo below is a ONE year old Freightliner/Daimler/Mercedes, the wire jacketing is so poor the loom chaffed through it in ONE year! Find a place to have it tested to confirm what it is you have and go at them like a raging Bull. This green initiative has to be brought under control and come back to reality! All its doing is giving manufactures an excuse to go CHEAP and create a financial burden for the owner of the vehicle.

YUP!

Since this is in General Discussion now I figured I would chime in as it does apply to large and small vehicles. I have driven in winds up to 60 MPH gusts, I slowed down but haven't pulled over. The most I have felt was a twitch in the steering wheel in the highest of those wind gusts, that was traveling across the farm lands of PA where you can see for miles. I have to agree with Jim that being in utmost comfort while operating a 18 ton vehicle makes every road trip relaxing, quiet, smooth and enjoyable. Love my big comfy coach and all of its amenities, after all its our home away from home and there is no roughing it at either home or especially while traveling this great country.

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yea and if I remember correctly you were sitting to my left , good times!!

And here's my contribution, photo from a bar stool oh and one from my morning walk with my coffee. Keons post covered it all. Very nice but expensive.

The resort at Massey landing, near Rehobeth DE https://www.masseyslanding.com/accommodations/rv-sites take a look at those rates

EXPENSIVE! Nice place but....EXPENSIVE!

Part two, almost forgot..... So March 2013 comes along, I decided to replace the carpeting, it was balding in some spots. As I'm removing the interior I found the guys dog tags, brought a tear to my eye thinking about all he had done for our country and how i'm certain someone was trying to figure out what had ever happened to them. I carried them into the house like it was the American Flag, picked up the phone and called the dealer, asked them to get in touch with the widow and explained what I found. They were apprehensive to contact her, which I begged them to do, took them a week to pull our archived files and they agreed to help. Sadly were unsuccessful to reach her as the number was disconnected. I believe she moved into a nursing home and I vaguely remember something to do with the coach being a hang up on her moving when we looked at it several years prior. We proceeded to locate potential relatives on the web contacted many people until we actually found a daughter a few months later. Mailed them back to the family. Over the years I kept finding stuff that told me he was hard core military, I would have loved to have meet him and I was sure he was smiling at how well I was taking care of his coach that he treasured.

Yeah, thought of that but wanted MYPopslou to get a notification on this thread, no way to "tag" someone on a new one and a PM wouldn't put it out for others interested in that area.

That was my first toad, bought a dolly and towed it on that. Ford said it could be flat towed, after being a dealer tech I knew better, saw many transmissions fail for no reason other than bad design. I wasn't going to be that guy with a bad transmission. Traded it for a jeep also

I bet your right, I told them back in would be fine. Rates for around here are great, which had me a bit concerned. At that price you could be in for a real experience you might not want to remember in the NE. I'm only there for the band playing that weekend , heard them in 2016 at a Campground we stayed at and was blown away, absolutely the best cover band I have ever heard! Ill be dancing on the picnic table, and not falling through anymore .

Finally have the time to type this out. This all started in 2007 DW wanted to take a trip to the West Coast (Disneyland), she began planning it and said how it would be fun to do it in a motorhome. Priced out rentals and WOW was that expensive (almost $11,000 plus fuel). Side tabled the plans. I worked at a Dealership that motorhomes frequented as a mechanic, we discussed buying a fixer upper and selling it after running this trip or maybe in the end of the season, I figured if I got it cheap enough, why not? Found a 1998 Coachman Santara 311SB Class C used on consignment, retired Army Sargent owned it and had passed away, his widow wanted it to go away. It needed some work as it had been sitting for a few years. Picked it up under wholesale in February 2008, DW told me it had to be ready to go for July, trip is now booked. I spent three months repairing and upgrading items on the coach side and chassis side. I had it ready in mid May, took it out on a shake down trip and had a blast! Kids loved it DW was on the fence but still had fun (she had fun but didn't want to admit it) . This was not our first time with RV experience, more for me as my grandfather had a few trailers over the recent years and in the 70's did a bus conversion, which was #2 RV, first one was an old bread truck, i remember helping him out with those as a kid. We set out for CA in July 08 with gas prices at $4.30 per gallon and my American Express with $0 balance . Sight seeing all the way out and back, I cannot tell you how much fun that trip was and excited everyone was, we really made some memories. We returned and I told the DW I was going to detail the coach and put it up for sale, she looked puzzled and the kids started yelling NO!! We ran that coach another 6 years and 45,000 miles all over the place, locally and another trip to CA. May 2014 the old coach needed some more TLC and my DW saw opportunity to get something bigger as the kids were bigger now and space was getting tight. We saw the need for a Toad as the kids were older and we didn't destination camp like before, we were now going to an area to explore something and really needed a car, to make matters worse the towing capacity on the current coach couldn't handle a toad over 3000 lbs and my Jeep was almost 4000 lbs. We upgraded to our current coach, while I miss that old coach I think I really miss the memories and the fun trips we had. Hmm, found this on the web, while not our old coach, its identical!

POP's you ever camp at this place, in Carlisle PA? https://westernvillagervpark.com/ I booked it for a weekend this summer.

Agreed! We broke camp with the Class C and day tripped with it in the years prior to owning a toad. Had it been me and the DW it wouldn't have been such an issue, but still an issue. The coach size wasn't the concern its all of the stuff, then toss two kids into it ILL NEVER DO IT AGAIN! By the time we set up the outdoor stuff, chairs, outdoor cooking, grill, patio mat, water, cable, sewer and electric, surge protector locked to the tower etc...etc...etc.... inside makeup, curling iron, (not me them , Not putting my foot in my mouth Carl , I see you grinning as I clicked send ) kitchen stuff comes out of the cabinets, DW brewing sweet tea, Slides out, window awnings deployed, etc.etc.etc that coach isn't going anywhere . Not too long ago I watched a couple break camp without toad, left there stuff out, when they came back it was all cleaned up by the office, they thought they left a day early and weren't coming back . While the coach portion only takes me a few minutes, its all of the other stuff that I wipe down before it goes back under the coach in the basement that can take up some time that I have no desire to do multiple times on a trip. Then there is the security aspect, my stuff is at the campground, while our toad is parked where ever while we are out walking around some quaint town window shopping. You read many times how someone's RV was broken into at a parking lot, easy target and they know there's a good chance there will be valuables left inside. Did I win the most emoji's in a post contest ?

I agree 100%! the memories and enjoyment from my family I cannot put a price on~!

I hadn't given that one bit of thought how much different it would be with jacks vs air leveling. If I had jacks only I wouldn't bother to do it. Herman, my coach don't twist, due to the similar chassis I would think you would be the same. I pulled out of a CG two years ago onto a small road, I had to turn 90 degrees just after the opening and the left front tire was in the air, i.e. not on the ground ( I didn't know it it the time) DW opened the door to check my tail swing through the gates, stepped out, started to holler the wheel is off the ground, why is it spinning . Afterwards I thought about how and why the door wasn't pinched closed and why the floor tile is still intact, I expected the worse...no signs of any flexion. Needless to say we will not go back to that place! Cost of use, last year I spent about $450.00 on maintenance and $2300 for tires (customizing upgrades are not figured into this as they were personal preference, not needed), we put 13,000 miles on it. Had it not been for the new tires I would have been very exited over that money spent!

Yeah, I need pull my pick up tube, and inspect it and maybe extend it. Ours just below 1/2 tank it shuts down!

Herman, at what fuel level does you generator shut off?

Just make sure its one that doesn't only handle surges. They make them for "Surge protection" only and the more expensive versions that do other voltage issues.