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This happened on Thanksgiving. That was 5 days ago so I'm thinking as much diesel as most Pilot's pump it wouldn't do any good for a sample to be taken of any of their tanks now. He does have samples which were taken by the Dodge dealer he will be keeping, plus his receipt of course. I will pass on that web sight to him though. I think there is a good chance a commercial truck would have gotten contaminated fuel also. Much better chance of that than another diesel RV getting the bad fuel prior to this Pilot station doing something.

The only way I can think of DEF contaminating a Pilot's underground diesel tank is if a DEF delivery driver dropped some by mistake in the wrong underground tank. A busy holiday weekend maybe they were hauling extra loads or had inexperienced delivery driver's helping out, don't know. I am confident he didn't do it by mistake. He pulled in needed diesel in his truck tank and his auxiliary diesel bed tank, plus some DEF. When he finally left his truck tank was full of diesel, his auxiliary tank was full of diesel, and his DEF tank was full. I don't think he would have taken the DEF nozzle and pumped DEF in the truck tank, again in the auxiliary tank, and then a third time in the DEF tank.

My buddy got contaminated diesel at this Pilot on Thanksgiving Day: Store 406, 9211 Lewisburg Highway, Cornersville, TN 37047 It was in the big rig lanes and the diesel was mixed with DEF. Repair is being completed now, final bill estimated to be between $10,000 and $15,000. Has anyone experienced a similar issue from that station on that day, or has anyone heard of someone having that issue? Pilot is saying nothing was wrong with their fuel or system that day. He had his receipt. He pulled in needing diesel in his 1-ton Ram tank, his auxiliary bed diesel tank, plus he wanted to take on a little DEF. He pumped 48 gallons of diesel and 5 gallons of DEF. When he pulled away from the pumps the truck didn't run right. Mobile service came out and changed fuel filter and said there was water in filters. 100 miles down the road he added about 12 or 14 gallons out of auxiliary tank and lost rpms. Dodge dealer tested fuel and it had DEF mixed with it. We are hoping that others can be found that had an issue that day. Repairs underway but he should not have to pay.

I generally have to see some type of additional reason to purchase any type of extended warranty, and even then if I'm buying from a dealer they better be reducing that price by about 40% or more. With our current RV we are full time and towing almost 10,000 pounds so I added some coverage. Recent new car purchase. Vehicle came with black painted rims. I could see rubbing one of those against a curb so we went with coverage after the dealer dropped it down to $1,200. Within a couple months we haven't screwed up the rims but we did lose a $350 fob which was covered under the extended warranty.

Sue, was there a reason you just didn't use the family members address where you still maintain a bedroom as your mailing address? Everyone's situation is different so only you can decide but if that was your address then it would certainly make things easier all around not only for insurance but for about anything else that came up.

Now that is really good advise, especially at our winter home site next to the Caloosahatchee River. Could be snakes out in the yard, or a scary gator! So far so good though.

I'm probably not going to take advice from a company that makes their money getting rid of mice and rats in homes. I'm thinking they would obviously bad mouth all home remedies and try to convince any homeowner that they were the only solution to keeping the little critters away. If my RV is parked at a site and there is a smell of moth balls detected under it where mice and snakes may crawl around during the night, it makes sense to me that they would rather move to the next site and leave my area alone.

These are the perforated bags of moth balls that Lowe's sells. There is probably a very slim chance that someone's dog, steer, or child could crawl under my parked coach and start sucking on a bag of moth balls. If that happens though I will immediately stop using them.

We purchased our first TST brand TPMS about eight years ago when we purchased our first used fiver. It had flow thru sensors with user replaceable batteries. Since then I have needed to monitor 12 tires instead of 4 so we just expanded our TST system. Now we have a bigger new color monitor that does not have to be plugged in all the time with 4 flow thru and 8 smaller sensors. Our TST systems have always worked perfectly.

Learned a trick living in SW Florida from a neighbor who actually was from down there. To keep rodents and snakes from coming inside your garage he said to put a couple bags of moth balls just inside the garage door. It worked like a charm and we never had any living thing larger than a spider come into our garage. Currently we are only stationary for two times during the year, once up in Illinois for a couple months and then back in SW Florida for 4 winter months. At these sites I toss a couple bags of moth balls under the coach. I rarely smell them outside and never have smelled them inside. We never have snake issues or rodent issues in or even around our RV.

Want to wish all my Brothers and Sisters out there a Happy Veterans Day!

We are on a auto pay monthly plan. I guess it is still different than that? I went all through the Verizon site and there is no mention of anything like this being brought out?

That is interesting that the "announcement" would be on that site but nothing on the Verizon app yet. My account still is giving me the number of days until I hit the 22 gigs and my data speed will be reduced on my mifi.

If I recall correctly the Rand 7720 RV GPS units are set up so you can enter how many propane tanks you have. But like Jim, my current coach is all electric now so I don't worry about it. A year ago when I switched coaches I'm sure I reconfigured the Rand for my new parameters because we still use it as a second GPS on the passenger side when traveling.

Our GS (National General) policy only went up about $70 for the annual renewal recently and we are SW Florida residents. Had one claim and that was a $3,700 windshield replacement.

Good point Carl, especially when you consider FMCA is now open to all types of RVs. No doubt there would be a lot of folks encouraged to join and remain members if the discounts were for CGs were there.

Actually I may have misspoke, she tells me it will be closer to 17 CGs, plus one Cabela's and one Walmart. We had some obligations and only got to visit 11 states. Part of the problem also was that we enjoyed the mountains in Tennessee so much in the spring that we couldn't help ourselves and returned in the early fall. We are going to have to stop doing that if we ever hope to see most of the rest of the country.

Try Creekside RV Resort, Punta Gorda FL. They were adding a section last fall when we left Florida and there could be a possibility they are not completely booked. It is a couple miles from Punta Gorda airport and about 20 miles from Ft Myers airport. Probably anything else in SW Florida will be booked and want to put you on a waiting list.

The DW hasn't figured the final number yet, but I'm guessing we visited around 20 different CG's for 2018. We always run down the list of possible discounts with them. Usually it will be a PA or GS discount, not one CG has ever offered a FMCA discount.

Can't answer your specific question, however..... When we towed a heavy fiver with our F350 I had Firestone bags put on the rear. With the inside compressor I could adjust my ride on the fly and it was great. Our last coach before this one had the F53 suspension. It was like driving a tall overloaded bread truck. Considered bags all around but went with Sumos instead. It stiffened up the coach and took most of the sway out allowing us to drive down the highway in 10-15mph winds. Overall it still rode rather rough.

One thing I have noticed while traveling this past year is how different parts of the country offer discounts to active military and veterans. One example is Harley Davidson shops. We visit various ones all over the U.S. Very few of the northern ones offer any type of military related discount and actually look at you like you have three heads if you even ask. Most southern states gladly give 10% off and thank you for your service. Yesterday we stopped in a newer Harley shop in Savannah GA. The DW was picking up a small item and while we stood at the counter to pay we noticed a sign that said active military could only get a discount one day a week. This area is full of young military men and women serving our country and the sign made me mad that this business wouldn't offer the discount to them all week long. We decided to put the item back and not purchase it.

Every RV forum I have ever been on always has this topic come up. It usually gets going pretty good and continues for 7 or more pages debating to all type of side issues. Generally speaking you need to do, or have three basic things for a black tank to continue to work properly: 1) use lots of water. 2) keep your roof vent clear/working. 3) rinse after dumping and travel with 2 to 5 gallons of liquid in black tank.

First off, just based on the video if authorities can track down the idiot he/she should be cited. If this bridge was on a route I had planned there would be two ways I would have been warned prior to even heading out that day. First of all one of my two dedicated RV GPS units would refuse to route me to it, secondly when I would have reviewed my Trucker's Atlas I would have discovered the low clearance plus the weight limitation. This should make an interesting read for anyone in a 20 ton RV or larger that uses car style GPS mapping and doesn't own a commercial Trucker's Atlas.

Do a search for "battery water can" and you will see numerous ones for sale everywhere. The better ones are black plastic and run between $15 and $20. They shut off automatically when each cell is topped off. I have used the same one for about 20 years starting with my boats and now my RVs. I also have a pull out tray with not much room but can check and fill each cell on eight 6-volt batteries in less than 10 minutes using my water can.

Interesting thread. I was just told last week that I can go to any auto parts store and buy LED bulbs to replace the taillight bulbs in my new Harley for about $7.00 each. I wonder if this is the same system/technology?