RV Hacking Ideas

08/24/2026

After our recent experience this past Saturday, I am now of the 2 year old school... buy new steers at 2yrs old rotate the 2yo to the rear... and do it every 2 years... you will end up with your oldest tires 6yrs old... assuming a 6 tire coach... and even 6-8yo used tires are worth $100-$150ea to dump truck guys... so it seems 2 tires every 2 years would be somewhat cost effective and would not kill the budget? Let me toss out a few other thoughts... "stuff we leave out on the counter that might "travel well" but might try to kill you in the event of a mishap... that big wood block full of Knives in the kitchen area ...BAD... laptops... BAD... amazing we use an electric 2 burner induction cook top that sits on the cover of our 3 gas burners we never use... that big heavy thing stayed in place... while the freezer door and microwave door ended up in the front of the coach... the other thing that is a huge concern is the front overhead cabinets... they could have been lethal... they all came down and in before they left out of the front... I do think having the entry step cover up helped reinforce that area in front of the passenger seat... BTW i was belted in... my wife was NOT.. as she had just put some water in the dogs bowl and was just returning to her seat... she ended up on the floor under the dash in front of the right seat... in this case I believe it saved her life... as I watched the upper cabinets come loose and swing into the right seat before they left out through the windshield... i say "swing" because they were attached only by all the wires that went to the control panel that is above the right seat... Just random thoughts as I process the last few days events.

08/24/2026

The water post by the silver car is my site area my hose to my trailor is hooked up to it. The gray box is my electrical box. We left our site for a couple hours and came back to this. She used all her lot for Halloween decorations and another tent. She had several kids and other adults staying with her. I never said any thing to her because I still had plenty of room. I don't know if she knew better or didn't care. We still had a great weekend.
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08/24/2026

UPDATE:
Soooooo … it turns out that the manufacturer never put anything under the flashing. When they removed everything it was metal on wood only. No sealant, no putty, no waterproofing of any kind, nothing. We had them check the other slides … all the same. Repair guy said there wasn’t any way to know that unless you removed everything and we were lucky no other slide was affected.
He said the sagging was caused by them not properly supporting the top of the slide. We are working on a solution for that moving forward.
He said no real damage thankfully because we caught it quickly. They will be sealing things up properly for us.
Very thankful. This could have been much worse

08/18/2026

I live in a hitchhiker II. I need to replace the shower head because it's too high and i'm short. Has anybody replaced one that was not built for rvs but a regular bathroom that has a slider pull, So the handle can go up and down, or you can take it off?
If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

08/16/2026

When you register at a campground and they ask “do you have any pets?” Do you tell the you’re bringing a cat? They seem to only care about dogs.

08/16/2026

Is it safe to keep a chest freezer running in a storage shed outside the camper?

08/16/2026

Does anyone else have this ridiculously shallow and useless cabinet? What the heck can I do with this??

07/30/2026

07/30/2026

Me too..😍😍

07/30/2026

Lets go ..