subject: Greatest 25 Safty solutions from your Fort Collins RV Dealer [print this page] Greatest 25 Safty solutions from your Fort Collins RV Dealer
1. Join the Escapees RV Club
2. Always have wheel chocks, or blocks of wood or something to deflect your unit from rolling on its own.
three. Throw on a dime the cheap sewer hose that came with your additional rig, and buy yourself a really good one. Actually, buy two - a 10 footer and a 20 footer, and be sure that you have a connector that aim connect them together, come which dark evening meanwhile the sewer connection is 29 feet on a dime.
4. Always be SURE which the hose is SECURELY attached to the sewer lunchroom and EASE the valve open. earlier you ask excited and slam the valve whole open, be sure which someone's foot, or a heavy rock is covering down the other end.
five. Have your 'significant other' make it her job to involve you "Did you close both valves before you put the cap back on? Why don't you check.". If you are doing this solo, someday you aim suddenly know why this is an crucial advise.
6. Join Escapees & FMCA and find out from their magazines and rallies.
7. get the rig weighed on the corners earlier and next loading it with your "stuff," and do not beat the GVWR.
8. Check age/condition of tires and check pressure before every drive. Do a walk around check of rig each couple-few hours, while you're traveling.
9. raise a check list for departure.
10. Buy the RVSEF training program from RVSafety.com; $29 and change with discount (SKP, GS, FMCA).
11. transport an RV driving class
12. insure a safe water give with filtration.
13. use a water pressure reducer at the source.
14. Check/replace anode in hot h2o heater.
15. Buy a multi-meter & find out through what medium to check electric receptacles and to climb on sure the circuit breaker is off before plugging/unplugging.
16. Install an Awning Saver or some other device to avoid loss of alike due to wind.
17. create a library of RV maintenance books such as The RV Handbook by Bill Estes, ISBN 0-934798-44-3; RV Electrical Systems by Bill & Jan Moeller, ISBN 0-07-042778-X; The RVer's Bible by Kim & Sunny Baker, ISBN 0-684-82267-9; and Managing 12 Volts by Harold Barre, ISBN 0-9647386-1-9.
18. transport care while listening to well text but uninformed people meanwhile it comes to solving problems.
19. Install new batteries in all detectors and insure they are working.
20. Check every chassis and pad batteries and know how to suitably maintain them.
21. order ready to affair an amount new life style and the freedom in which to grab many COP's (change of plans).
22. Have many fire extinguishers on hand
23. carry nothing on board that does not have at least two uses.
24. Never go out to dump your black h2o (or gray water) without a screwdriver! ALWAYS check the hose clamp that attaches your sewer hose to the rig's sewer restaurant.
25. Have a "check out list" with everything you demand to do in advance pulling out.
