List Your Mods:

Thanks in advance for any info.

We bought our 179 in August of this year and although it's titled as a 2017 model it seems to be a transitional 2016-1/2 model when it comes to features.  Ours has the King Jack TV antenna and rotator as well as the stainless steel undermount sink and updated exhaust fan but it is missing some of the features of the new blue R-pods that I would have liked to have.  I've already added an electric tongue jack to replace the flip foot jack and this past weekend I installed the flush-mount stove surround - see picture below.  I've also purchased the D&W Super Slider sewer hose storage tube but I haven't gotten it installed yet.  The only other mods I've made to our 179 is to replace the outlet near the stove with one that has 2 USB charging ports and added a bracket to the TV swing arm that allows me to angle it downward.  

Installing the flush mount for the stove was easy after carefully measuring the visually checking clearances.  There is a cleat between the front of the cabinet and the counter top that you need to clear and the wiring for the electrical outlet by the stove runs along that same cleat.  The flush mount doesn't come with a template so you have to use the mount itself to draw your outline then draw the cut line 3/8" inside of that.  I found that after initially unscrewing the stove top from the counter that I could just use the flexible gas line to angle the stove so I could just lower it down inside the cabinet while I was making my cut instead of having to disconnect the line.  

We don't use the stove top that often and rather than make a cutting board top like many people do we chose to go this route to recover the counter space.