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Channel: Bish's RV · 2016 · Autos & Vehicles

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This show covers internal preparations before you leave on a camping trip in your RV. 

RV Pre-Trip Check List - Internal Preparation (Part 2)

Lights
Monitor Panel - Indicators
Water Pump & Hot Water
Air Conditioning
Stove & Propane
Microwave
Refrigerator
Toilet & Black Tank
RV Toilet Paper
Linens
Cabinet Latches
Sweep it out
Stash loose items
Surface Cleaning
Bring all Slide Outs in
Start the vehicle (if a motorhome)

G-Live Presents:  RV Pre-Trip Check List (Part 2)

Marshall:  Good morning and welcome to Guaranty RV Super Centre’s live stream, we call it G-Live. My name is Marshall White, I am your host and I’m also joined today by Dr. Q. Good morning Quinn, he’s my co-host.

Quinn:  Good morning Marshall good to be here. Good morning internet thanks for joining us on a Wednesday.

Marshall:  He is literally to cool to my aid, and the reason I need aid is because I have not been doing this nearly as long as this guy, who’s been 30 year’s worth of RV industry experience. He’s going to help us out today on our Pre-Trip check list on this motor home interior. Last week in Part 1 we covered the exterior and all the things that we need to do, from a safety standpoint. Checking the tires, wiper fluid, and so forth before we hit the highway. Today we are going to do it on the inside, should we head inside?

Quinn:  Yeah I think that’s a plan, after you Marshall. 

Marshall:  What a beautiful coach. 

Quinn:  Yeah very nice, right.

Marshall:  Let’s grab the lights.

Quinn:  So the first thing I do when I go pre-trip check I’m going to turn on all my lights. Part of that is I want to make sure they are all working. The other part is I’m going to be working in here so if I can see better, I’m going to notice any little imperfections, anything that needs a little touch up, anything that needs a little repair. So we’ve got the lights on. The next step is I’m gone come on over here to my monitor panel. This monitor panel is going to tell me a whole lot about my coach, and where it stands before we get ready. This monitor panel is going to allow me to test my LP, and the situation we are inside so that LP is empty, that’s fine Marshall work there. But obviously you’ve got indicator lights that’s going to tell you empty, third, full.  We are going to do the same with the batteries. The batteries are fully charged, that’s good way to start your trip. Fresh water is at two thirds, black is empty, grey is empty. 

That’s funny how I would start. You know water is pretty heavy you don’t need to necessarily transport; a bunch of water with you if you know where you are going has water. I would use their city water. Water is about 7 thousands gallon I think, so some of these things have 40, 50 gallons tanks. That can be a lot of weight that you add to it. This is also for our water pump switch; we would turn on our water heater here. You don’t have LP and having it on 110 without any water in it can damage it, so I am just going to tell you about how that would work. If we have water in there we would turn on 110 volt element, if we are plugged in or running a generator.   Most of the time you can run it on gas. Next thing I do just to make sure my water pump is working; I’m going to step behind here Marshall. Run a little water yep, and during this step if I had that water heater on I would also check for hot water. That’s a good way to tell if your water heater is working, takes a little while from initial start up to actually produce hot water, but it’s a good time to check that if you’re on the road and you’re taking a shower, and find out you don’t have any hot water. 

Marshall:  Makes sense.

Quinn:  We’re going to move on to our appliances. I would have the air conditioner on and in this case we’ll just kick it over to the fane here, put it on fan should come on just fine. Turn that off, save some power here, and then I would move my way over to the stove. The reason I start with the stove is because I can light one of these burners, sometimes you’re going to need the stick lighter. The newer coaches almost always have a 3:37 ignition, and I’m going to light the high output burner. Obviously no propane so I’m dumbing it. The reason I light that first burner is so that I can actually kind of purge the system, it helps bring propane from the tank up into all of the lines. 
Occasionally you’re going to wait a minute, and you’re going to get a little bit of a pow when you first start it, that’s natural. That’s just the nature of the beast. Propane will take a long time to fill this coach up with enough propane, it would be dangerous. You have a detector in here somewhere, well before it gets to that level its going to tell you hey we smell a lot of propane. 

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