Bypass Valve for Adding Antifreeze

After a rather extensive perusal of my 2013 171HRE and checking under the bed, and taking off the panel in front of the kitchen sink to expose the water pump, I DO NOT have a connector for winterizing.  Just ordered the Camco unit from Amazon.  Guess they removed this and leave it up to the owner to deal with winterizing.  Safe Travels.

Note to Forest River:
Don't you folks ever read these comments on the forum? It would be nice if you could shoot the forum a message when a simple maintenance change occurs such as the one pertaining to the apparent disappearance of the winterization RV antifreeze hose and valve  in the 2012/2013 RPOD models so we would not spend all our time describing a non existent hose and location to a baffled new RPOD purchaser who actually doesn't have what we are describing . Every previous RPOD has had the RV antifreeze hose and valve, albeit in various locations since 2009. The new coupler and short length of hose looks like a cost cutting step for Forest River  but does not appear to be very user friendly compared to the old valve hose arrangement and comes as a bit of a surprise to fellow RPODERs trying to help other PODERS. A technical note from the factory when this controversy started about a month ago would have been put this to rest and would have been much appreciated. Thanks!

We do speak freely on this post, don't we? I hope Forest River appreciates our constructive comments and also takes notice of some of the perceived problems that users experience. The RPOD is a nice concept that should benefit form user input and continuing attention to quality construction and control at Forest River.

I also agree that there is more action on this forum than the other, but what I realy like is, that there is a record of the people that have been on line every day.

I would be surprised if someone from FR wasn't checking the two forums from time to time ... it would be a rather bad business decision if they didn't.  I really appreciate this one much more than the other one, having spent a lot of time on both researching the Pod's before buying, but the number of "rah-rah" posts about FR on the other one basically pushed me away.  The fact that this is independent as an owners site and not sponsored by a distributor appeals to me more, and I never even go to the other one anymore.