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I want to travel to the grand canyon at 7000 ft around Christmas. How do I keep the water lines from freezing? What product can I plug into the compartment to add heat? 12 volt or 110?

I had the basement heater fail to come on causing the water to freeze the last few years. I have a backup electric heater that use 120 v but it will be good to have the system installed working. The main problem is when the cargo heater fail to come on it freezes the pipes and we end up without water. The reason why is the snap disk thermostat may or may not turn on as happen in Delaware during January 2017. I pulled into the campground in zero degree weather and the first thing I noticed was no water. Second thing was no cargo heat. So the next day we were faced getting a backup heater to thaw things out. No fun walking in freezing weather to use the restroom. I had a left over thermostat from a old garage heater one decided why not go with a real thermostat with more control. I didn't know how to put description after each picture so I hope you can follow in the order it was uploaded. 1 Snap disk, 2 Wires prepared for installation, 3 Wires installed for thermostat, snap disk disconnected, 4 Access panel being prepare for thermostat, 5 Access panel installed 6 Thermostat installed and set to 55 for testing, can be set as low as 35 but will be set at 40. 7 We have a working cargo heater

If you follow my topic last Christmas Holiday season http://community.fmca.com/topic/6353-our-holiday-travel-misadventure-so-far/, you would know about the basement heater failure and pipe freezing on the first leg of our trip dry camping in twin Falls, ID. No way to get a part quickly so I had to order from Monaco while at Las Vegas and have shipped to North Carolina hopefully before I arrive there. In the meantime I travel south to stay thaw out as I knew I was lucky not to have any damage. Now I paid big money for that heater box (Cargo Heat) plus shipping and it worked when I first installed it for the few times needed on the east coast. Got chased from there by a blizzard. Then I cross southern California and up into Oregon and the basement heater failed again. Well I got no warranty on the heater just sorry but you must check the wiring in your coach. Finally last week I got one tech at Monaco to tell me how to bench test it. I took them both in my shop and found that they both fail the bench test. No surprise there as I knew they didn't work in the coach and the wiring checked out. I first took the old one apart and remove the heating element and ohm it and it check out as well as overheat switch. I knew the relay worked as it kicked in with the 12 volt signal wire. I put it back together and it work like it's supposed to. I installed that one in the coach and tested the operation there and works OK so one down one to go. I took the new one apart and ohm it out the same way and found one wire broken to the overheat switch and a bad diode. I fixed the wire but could only bypass the diode as I have nothing like that. I put that one to the side for a spare in case of an emergency. The bottom line is that these basement heaters are not reliable as the should be and Monaco not offer a warranty even though I ask them for one. Instead the sent me on a wild chase testing wiring when all alone it was bad heaters. I even had to search and find the wiring diagram on the internet. So again with another new company owning Monaco/Holiday Rambler it's same old attitude of not caring.

I have a 2007 Georgetown Motorhome model 373. I have had 2 hinges fail in the past 6 months on my basement compartments in my Georgetown Motorhome. I replaced one late last year and now another has failed. The dealer said the hinge cost about $50 to replace. Does anyone have any ideas of where I might get a part like this. I have been everywhere. I am ready to pay the $50 but I think it is ridiculous for a hinge. Any Ideas?