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    Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 8:23am
Hi to everyone and happy holidays, we bought a 2011 177, we've done tent camping and cabins but wanted to move up, never towed anything in my life so this is different, don't even have a tow vehicle yet, spent the night in it with the furnace on got to 27 last night, can't wait to go somewhere, the dogs definitely like it, any advice would be appreciated. by the way we live in Massachusetts.
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 8:25am
Congratulations on the new 177! Thumbs Up Let the fun begin!
Cliff & Raelynn
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Welcome and congrats! 
We bought our 2011 , 177 on Dec 5th. We haven't been out of the driveway yet ourselves. 
We can't wait to finish getting it ready. 
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HI Joem, we have the 2012, 177rpod. Same as you had never towed anything till we got the pod. When backing up: put your dominate hand at the bottom of the steering wheel, turn the wheel in the direction you want the BACK END of the trailer to go. ONLY WATCH THE BACK OF THE TRAILER and your backer upper helper.   A 1/4 turn of the wheel will start your trailer to go in the direction you want. GO SLOW.... Go to a school yard, parking lot and practise.. We all started somewhere...    We went from a tent to our pod... NICE... And welcome.
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 11:44am
Good advice on learning backing skills here...one of the tricks I use is remembering while looking in your mirrors, if you want the POD to go away, steer towards the direction of the mirror. So if the POD is headed in direction of your left mirror and you want to straighten it out, steer to the left, towards the mirror. Sounds counter intuitive, but it works. Good Luck!
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Glad to have you all out Podding with us!
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We do some camping in Mass. Have enjoyed Tolland State Park in Otis and DAR State Park in Goshen. Not too far up in Vermont, we've gone to Woodford State Park, which is a little outside of Wilmington (Mt. Snow). We also first timers with a camper - going into our third year now and loving it.

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Larry and Debbie w/Rosie the mutt. Old: '13 177, '06 Silverado V6
New: '15 Whitehawk 20MRB '14 Silverado V8
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First time owner of a 178. Looking forward to spring and a start to taking a trip. Bought the the 178 in Otober this year & had the dealer winterize the Pod when I picked it up. Corret me if I am wrong but prior to putting RV antifreeze into the system the heater bypass was closed off to prevent antifreeze from getting in the heater? In the spring do I flush the sytems in my driveway to get the antifreeze out of the POD while leaving the bypass in the winter position after which then switch over to the summer position? 
Thanks for any advice & help on the topic.
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Dec 2014 at 12:26pm
Yes Sir, if they pumped the pink stuff into the system that is how I would do it. Smile 

I may even flush it out then switch the valves and then sanitize. 
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