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https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-NEW-265-70R19-5-Goodyear-G159-AP-Rib-G-14-Ply-BSW-Tires/372257258856?epid=1785841880&hash=item56ac42fd68:g:ofcAAOSwkxRatmZ4&vxp=mtr Maybe these types of ads are old and they really don't have any? I know the articles I read stated they haven't been made since 2003 or so. With all that being said, it probably does not reflect very well on Goodyear if these tires were really that hazardous when they were putting them out there.

Wolfe are you sure about that. I did a search and it looked like there were some for sale still.

I KNEW IT!!!! I shouldn't have posted anything negative about some other person's tires! Yesterday we were out sightseeing (camped at St. Augustine). We were coming from New Smyrna Beach and stopped at a red light. A 5-ton box truck behind me got impatient because the cars in front of me were not moving when the light turned green. He pulled out from behind me and went around in the oncoming lane! The problem was as he did this I recognized immediately that he hadn't cut out far enough and he was going to side swipe us. I pulled up as close to the bumper of the car in front of me as I could but it wasn't enough. His rear duals brushed the front left of my Mini. Of course since this is Florida he kept going with no intention of stopping. Retired RVer Grandpa Joe disappeared and Trooper Joe took over I guess because I immediately pulled out and chased him down. I was honking and flashing my lights offset behind him and when that didn't work I passed him, stayed on the center lane, slowed, and brought him to a stop. I exited and demanded his driver's license and asked him why he didn't stop after hitting me. After I calmed down and he told his story a couple times I started to believe him. He said he had no idea that he had hit anyone. We looked at the front of my Mini and his tire marks can be rubbed out from my protective wheel well rubber, so no real damage there. Of course my DW had already dialed up the New Smyrna police and they arrived quickly. We told our story, he told his, and all was good. I'm thinking if I would have only refrained from talking about other folks issues with tires..........

Nice coach! I was in my late 50's when we decided to try RVing. No part time messing around just jumped right into full timing. The only thing that saved me and shortened the learning curve was a brand specific forum I was on for my fiver at the time. Them folks knew their stuff and it really helped me out. After a couple of weeks on the road you will be surprised how fun and easy RVing is!!!!!

Like I've said before, I love dogs and always have. I just hate lazy pet owners.

I hope folks don't take this the wrong way, or think I am a "sick" individual. When we travel I take note of different vehicles for different reasons. My DW says it is a retired cop thing. One thing I notice and call out to her is my prediction of who will have a future flat tire. I am only right about 10% or 20% of the time but it is fun to do. I generally watch for older cargo type trailers or small open trailers that look like they haven't been maintained. If they are traveling at 70mph or above I will call them out "future blow out". I also watch for TTs or fivers that are running hard, like 75 or more, on days that the temps are in the high 90's or above. I hit on these when we are out west on a regular basis. One will fly past us and maybe an hour or so later we will pass them on the side of the road with a chewed up tire. Sure enough since I posted this I will blow a trailer tire going 62mph next week when it is 75 degrees out.

I came across this on another RV forum and didn't remember seeing it here: https://www.boston.com/cars/car-news/2018/04/05/government-goodyear-tires-may-have-caused-95-deaths-or-injuries I may have just missed the post here or something. I guess it is a good thing FMCA doesn't include Goodyear in their discount program! At first I thought these G159 tires were not even made in 22.5 size but I was able to find them online so I guess they are.

I thought I had witnessed the rudest behavior a couple years ago when early one morning another camper walked his dog past my covered motorcycle, stopped, and allowed his pet to urinate all over it. Then when I exited my camper and asked him not to repeat that behavior he actually denied his dog had done it. But no wait, I think I ran into his twin sister yesterday. It had cooled down so our windows were open about dinner time. All of a sudden my wife says "what is that smell?" The site next to us is turned opposite us so our sewer hoses are all on the same side. She looked out the side window and down. There was a gal in her 60's, or early 70's, watching her dog crap about 2 feet from our coach. This wasn't in the front, this was about a third of the way down and next to the coach! She immediately turned away and briskly walked back to the road and away. I quickly put my shoes on and finally caught up to her several sites away and around a corner. I asked her "Mam, don't you carry plastic bags?" She said she had forgot to carry one and was getting it to go back and clean up the mess. Her husband who was sitting nearby with another dog, spoke up and said "we always clean our messes up". She did show up a few minutes later and pick up the rather large and smelly droppings. I don't know if they "always clean up their messes" or not. I guess what I find more rude than leaving the mess is the fact that she led her dog in between me and the guy next to me in the first place. There are several open common areas with grass within 30 yards plus designated pet areas a little further away. Why would you sneak between two RV's several spots down from your site just before dark to let your dog to that? Getting off my box now.

Jim and Carl, now you did it. He probably won't post again!

Carl, since taking delivery and getting trailer ready we have taken 3 different trips in Florida hauling everything. We "officially" vacated our winter site yesterday to start our travels. Going to stay up here in St. Augustine for a week and check all of this area out. Then we are cutting over to Mobile, New Orleans area for a month before heading to eastern Tennessee and then western Tennessee. Don't want to get too far north until June......us Florida boys don't do good in the cold.

Welcome to the world of RVing I guess. It don't matter if you spend $12,000 or $1,000,000 there will be issues. After spending over $700,000 on a coach and being that freaked out over a mattress switch I'm not sure the OP will be happy with what will probably happen during the first year of ownership.

Jim is obviously up on the comfort drive information/facts. I test drove several DP's in our search late last year. I had never heard of comfort drive and had no idea of what it was. When I finally drove my Newmar there was a remarkable difference. We just traveled a little over 300 miles today. It was heavy traffic all day, windy, plus we got caught in a jam up due to an accident blocking I-4 for almost an hour. After 7 hours on the road I felt like I had driven 3 or 4 hours.

We have the same MiFi activated that we got from Verizon back in 2012 the first time we went full time. When we came off the road we tossed it in a drawer in our new home and deactivated it. Back in November, 2017, we reactivated it and went on their Unlimited Plan (which is really not unlimited). With the discounts I get for paperless auto pay and other things I pay about $10 more a month than I would if I took advantage of the FMCA plan, but of course if you figure in 2 years advance annual FMCA membership then I am saving money, but that is another story. Our old MiFi worked great full timing before (26 different states including Oregon and California coasts), and so far it has worked perfect in several locations in Florida this winter. There are probably 20 other MiFi users in our current CG.

I'm not saying when we downsize and go back to part time RVing I would not go back to a fiver. Actually I probably would, simply because the truck would serve a dual purpose for us, it would pull the RV plus be utilized as our second vehicle while not RVing. Another consideration is drivability. I loved pulling my fivers down the road in almost any conditions. My DP is the same, a joy to drive. Smaller gas MH.......yikes! We didn't enjoy that experience at all.

Here we go again.

Rhino Flex for us also. I originally bought sections so I could reach up to 40'. They were all about 8 years old but in reality only one 15' section got used on a regular basis. Last week I threw it away because it was showing some signs of wear. I wasn't going to wait until that one black tank dump when it finally sprang a leak. I replaced it, cleaned all the other sections, then spent about an hour stretching them all out and treating them with 303. Honestly the Rhino is made so well about the only thing that should damage them is UV rays.

We also were full time in a fiver, now in a DP. I am just the opposite as Ken. Our DP is more comfortable and has tons more storage than our 39' fiver had. I suppose if you are sitting in one place for 6 or 7 months it wouldn't be good on a DP, but we don't do that anyway. We were very close on our weights when we had our fiver. My TV (truck - tow vehicle) was a 2012 F350 single rear wheel. After loading for full time living and weighing we were within a few hundred pounds of being over. I weighed twice a year and it was always a battle to keep my weights down. Even though IMHO it would have been harder to use a dually for a daily driver, if my F350 would have been a dually I would have had some wiggle room. I had Firestone air bags on the rear which helped keep me level but didn't mean I could load heavier. Don't have to worry about all that now though.

Good point Wayne. Also, maybe some folks are lucky enough to be getting 8 or 9% on their money short term instead of 2 or 3%, so by all means keep it in the bank. Otherwise, the way I look at it is my "expiration" date is much closer than further away so I'm not much on long term investing. I've been to more and more funerals and have yet to view a casket that was loaded with cash. Extended warranties are like any insurance policies. Some self insure and some throw money (me) at insurance companies.

Had a bumper to bumper extended warranty on a used coach we never used in 18 months, that is correct. Applied the refund from that toward the new warranty on our new Newmar we recently purchased, that is again correct. The Newmar warranties drop off 8.5 months from now. Most of my appliances warranties automatically drop off either in 8.5 months or 20.5 months. Engine, tranny go longer through Cummins/FL. I decided to invest an additional several hundred for coverage on everything through the first 5 years of ownership. We are full timing and actually putting miles on our unit. We are opening the frig probably over 5,000 times a year, crapping in two different expensive toilets over 700 times a year, you get the idea. If I was taking an occasional weekend trip or maybe running to Florida for 3 months in the winter and then just letting the coach sit then maybe I would take a chance. I personally believe there is a chance I could come out on top by having an extended warranty. Only time will tell. I guess at the end of 5 years and I haven't had $3,000 or $3,500 in claims paid out then we will just cancel one of our cruises or somehow try to recover from this huge financial loss.

Probably not double coverage. I doubt the extended warranty folks would be kicking in any funds when they know you are still under original factory warranty. My dealer (Newmar) offered a coach only plan that was pretty cheap. It was for 5 years and covered everything except chassis (motor/tranny). When I told them I would just wait until the end of the first year he showed me some paperwork of folks coming back for same warranty after a year. Price went from around $3,200 to about $4,000 for same warranty. It was an easy decision for me because I was getting almost half the amount for the new extended warranty in a refund from my last coaches extended warranty plan that I never used.

This was our first year joining FMCA. We have only paid membership to a small number of other RV groups over the years. However, since we had switched to a motorhome from a fiver we figured we would give FMCA a try. Then the big transition and vote to open it up to everyone. Now small changes have started to make it more of a "general" RV group and not centered around coaches. That is all well and good but the problem is it pretty much defeats the purpose of our main reason for joining up in the first place. We don't need membership in another general RV group that isn't coach specific or brand specific. Does that mean I look down on folks in TT or fivers? It is just the opposite, we began RVing in a used fiver and may very well end up in one again when it is time to downsize and go part time. To me it just seems silly to pay over $60 a year for membership in an organization named Family MOTOR COACH Association when it is just another general RV group. That would be like staying in the American Legion and they open it up to the general public and stop focusing on veteran issues anymore.

I use 303 on my car tires and Harley tires, but seldom if ever on the RV tires. I figure it won't really matter on the tires that wear out due to use instead of time. Just like I don't worry about covering any of my tires except the coach. Finally found the right covers also. Custom fit covers that are made out of the same screen material that I hang from my side awning. It shades my tires but lets them get air.

When asking about information on fuel stops on US 45 going north from Mobile area up to Savanna Tennessee, on another forum, someone mentioned a blue truck stop guide. I checked the first Pilot I fueled at and they had never heard of it. Next stopped at a Loves to gas up toad and they had it. It is a small blue colored book that lists fuel stops (diesel) and rest stops. I think with tax it was around $6.00 and change. I now know where 2 nice size stops are on the route I was needing information for. Along with my Commercial Road Atlas this is another publication I will be purchasing every couple of years.

If you were hoodwinked into the FMCA Verizon deal, the only bright spot is that 5g technology may be coming out soon. Last month when my Windows 10 updates chewed through 11 gigs in a day and I was throttled back about 6 days into the billing cycle I ended up on the phone with Verizon for about 45 minutes. They finally got me to one of their tech wizards that could actually see everything we had downloaded (with my permission) in order to determine how that much data was used when not steaming or downloading anything. Anyway, he mentioned that "when 5g technology was rolled out then 4g would become the technology that everyone would be rolled back to". I asked him when that was coming and he said they hadn't told anyone but he suspected sooner than later.

When you are paying to run across a truck stop scale, you need to walk inside to the fuel desk and tell them you are needing a weight first. I would not just drive in to their lot and park on the scale. Walk inside and tell them you have an RV and want to weigh. Go back out and drive on scale. You may need to have a short stick to reach the "talk" button on their pedestal depending on their set-up or if you are vertically challenged. They will lock your weight in when the scale settles down and tell you they have it. Drive off, park out of the way, and go back inside to pay and get your printed weight ticket. Easy peasy.