Properly Maintaining Your RV Ensures a Pleasant Trip

As every RV owner knows, the large vehicles are essentially a house on wheels and can require a significant amount of maintenance. It is recommended that you thoroughly check your vehicle for any issues and repair them prior to every trip in order to avoid an even more costly breakdown on the road. There are so many different components and features that attempting to do everything all by yourself can be a very daunting task.

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Handling an RV Breakdown

Here’s finally something you and your RV can both agree upon. You don’t want a breakdown, and neither does it. A night spent stranded at the side of the road does little for family bonding and is no way to spend crucial vacation time. Moreover, it’s unsafe for you and your stuff, not to mention potentially hazardous to your wallet after the proverbial (and literal) smoke has cleared and something vital is kaput. Here’s how to keep your RV between the white lines – and not marooned along them.

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About RV Trailers Weights

To this effect, one of the weights that come into mind is the gross weight rating of travel trailers. This simply refers to the maximum number or weight that should not be exceed by the gross recreational weight or the gross travel trailer weight of your preferred RV trailers or those travel trailers that you actually own. This weight is actually applied both to vehicles as well as to trailers. Needless to say, vehicles will encompass RV trailers while trailers will encompass travel trailers. Still, you need to remember that this kind of rating is sometimes referred to by the designation of the maximum weight that is loaded on a trailer.

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RV Education – Take the Weekly Exam… But Don’t Drink the Water!

There are no guarantees that any water is completely safe for us to drink, but if we take certain precautions we can keep our RV water system safe to use. So where do we start? First of all you should always use a white non-toxic drinking hose. Hoses not labeled safe for drinking can contribute to lead and other dangerous chemicals getting in the water…

Use the white non-toxic hose for hooking up to the water source and take along a green or black garden hose for all other uses like flushing out holding tanks or washing the RV. When you’re not using the drinking hose roll it up and connect the two ends together. This will keep dirt and other debris from getting in the hose. The next time you use the hose, run some water through it before hooking it up to the RV.

1. You basically have two choices on how to filter your RV water system. You can install an inline water filter directly to the water line that you drink from, or you can filter all of the water going into the RV. True or False

2. Water filters can control and remove bacteria, lead and other dangerous contaminants found in drinking water. True or False

To read the full article on how to keep your RV water system fresh and to get answers to this weeks questions go here:

http://www.rvuniversity.com/staticpages/index.php/Fresh_Water_101

Controlling Trailer Sway by Mark Polk

Mark Polk of RV Education 101 instructs you on what contributes to trailer sway and what steps you can take to control it. By www.rveducation101.com

Mark Polk of RV Education 101 instructs you on what contributes to trailer sway and what steps you can take to control it. For more free RV training video tips visit www.rveducation101.com Excellent resources for new RVers, and experienced RVers on video, DVD, instant download, and a free database of articles. This pre-departure checklist is also available online as an ebook, and valuable tool for any RVer.

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How To Hitch a Fifth Wheel

Mark Polk of RV Education 101 instructs you on how to properly hitch & unhitch a 5th wheel trailer. For more free RV training video tips visit www.rveducation101.com

Mark Polk of RV Education 101 instructs you on how to properly hitch & unhitch a 5th wheel trailer. For more free RV training video tips visit www.rveducation101.com Excellent resources for new RVers, and experienced RVers on video, DVD, instant download, and a free database of articles. This pre-departure checklist is also available online as an ebook, and valuable tool for any RVer.

For more interesting videos about RVing, visit Google or You Tube, and do a search for "camping, RVing, recreational vehicles, rv parks, campgrounds, or Go RVing.