Recent content by jndcruisers

Thanks for the feedback. We are booked now and we will be trying out Lakeside campground! Really looking forward to the trip.

My DW, dog and cat are heading out to Destin, FL from the Dallas/Fort Worth area next month and was hoping to get some trip routing advice. We're going to leave on a Thursday at noon and plan to arrive in Destin on Monday. Our reservations at Top Sail are from Mon and check out on Fri. We'll...

I just got back on my first "real" trip with the toad this past weekend. 800 miles round trip and sampled different driving conditions all without incident or issues. The drive up was easy as I had the wind at my back for most of the trip. Heading home I was in a 20-30 mph headwind for the first...

DW and I enjoy going and people always ask us, "Why do you go, you just bought a motorhome a year or so ago". We respond, "We like to see this year's model because in 10yrs after it has depreciated all that time, we'll be able to afford it." We liked the Newmar Essex the best this year. I'm...

Steve, The total cost for everything was a lot more than I originally. I bought the base plates and tow bar (Blue Ox) from Amazon which offered a really good deal and no sales tax. After a lot of research I found the SMI Air Force One aux braking was the best solution from a price/operation...

I am interested in the answer to this problem as well. I have the same set up and the exact same problem. Tires register just fine before pulling out but about a half hour on the road I can only see the front two tires. If I stop for a break, the back tires will sometimes re-register but again...

Thanks for the heads up Gary. I had the installers put in a fused charge line  in the event this might be an issue. For the aux braking, I went with the SMI Airforce One product. I believe there is very little (if any) electrical draw from the braking system however as you mentioned, there could...

Just wanted to follow up on this post in the event someone does a forum search in the future and wondered what to do. Today I picked up my motorhome from service and towed the 2012 SRX back to the storage facility 30 miles away. I followed the instructions which meant NOT pulling the fuses...

Hello, I am having a tow package installed this week on my 2012 Cadillac SRX. I have read on several webpages that it is necessary to remove a couple of fuses prior to towing however I have referred to my owners manual regarding the towing instructions and there is no mention of this step. All...

A couple of additions to my prior notes from my TX test. - They will most likely make you schedule your driving test. Here is the kicker. They told me that I had to have someone that was already Class B certified ride with me in the rig to the test. Since I had passed the written portion, I was...

If you are in Texas, you need to take the non-commercal class B test - both written and driving. I had to take mine earlier this year after learning I had been driving illegally for nearly a year. You can download the test material from the DPS website and there is small subset of the CDL...

Hey Dirk, I am a second owner to a motorhome and your last sentence caught my eye "Then there is the plumbing stuff:  water supply, dump valves, water heater etc.  And the jacks and slides.". Where you lost me was what should a second owner do for those things? For the water supply, I assume all...

Thanks for the replies to date. So is it accurate to say a base plate is a base plate so long as you buy one specific to your vehicle? If so, that seems like it will be hard for me to screw up at least the purchase of it. ;D The curb weight for the SRX is about 4300 LBS. The previous owner of...

I have a '99 Dutchstar diesel pusher that is rated to tow 10kLBS and have been RVing the last year and a half, mostly on weekends.  We recently decided we wanted the flexibility of having a tow vehicle for our extended trips and it was time for a new every day vehicle so we bought a 2012...

We have owned the 465T for about a year now. It has worked ok for us but then again most of our travel is relatively short distances, weekend warrior kind of outings. One complaint we do have is that about 25% of the time the GPS gets into a weird mode and the voice gets messed up to the point...