Unhitch TV or stay hitched up?
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Topic: Unhitch TV or stay hitched up?
Posted By: P&M
Subject: Unhitch TV or stay hitched up?
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 5:40pm
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When pulling over somewhere just to spend the night, regardless of campground / WallyMart / truck stop, and assuming that you aren't going anywhere else with the TV until you get up and leave the following morning, do you unhitch from the TV or stay attached? If staying attached do you just chock the tires, drop the tongue jack to take some pressure off the TV hitch, level out the 4 corners and disconnect the wiring assembly? ------------- P & M ... and Comet too! 2012 171 -- The Monkey Pod 2018 Ram 2500 |
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Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 6:21pm
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We sually just block the tires and drop the tongue jack. We also drop the stablizers. Can do it all in just a couple minutes and makes for a good nights sleep. ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Hairy Podders
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 10:26pm
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I would think that you should unplug the cable from the TV to the Pod, just to be sure that you don't drain the TV battery. ------------- Darryl, Julie & Lindsey Cooper & Libby- Devoted Canines 2014 RP178 2006 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon |
Posted By: Sleepless
Date Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 10:38pm
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This all assumes that your pod is setting relatively level, front to back.
------------- 2014 R-Pod 178 (OUR POD) 2009 Chevrolet Avalanche |
Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 6:48am
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i don't do a thing, just jump in bed and snooze. ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2023 F150 2017 HD Streetglide CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: LePodders
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 11:18am
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we unplug from TV and but stay hitched ------------- Keenan, Kathryn, Millie, Rio & Cali (2015 r pod 179) Poddy by Nature |
Posted By: Seanl
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 1:46pm
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We stay hitched. If we are in a campground I will drop the stabilizers but if a parking lot I will leave them up. If I can find a place in a parking lot well away from anyone else I will run my generator but otherwise I will leave it off. If I am overnight parking at a walmat or other lot I try not to look like I am moving in. ------------- Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition 
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Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 6:59pm
Done that! Happily I had my generator and my battery charger on that trip. As for the thread topic, I do as little as possible if we are boondocking at Walmart, per the unwritten rule. At most I'll add a block under a tire if it is really unlevel side-side, or drop the tongue jack if it is really unlevel front-back. No matter where we are I would never unhitch for a quick stop.
------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: Outbound
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 8:10pm
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For a quick overnight (or a mid-afternoon snooze), I'd only unhitch if levelling was an issue; never when I'm in a Walmart. Stabilizers stay up, and frankly, I'm not worried about any hitch stress. And I leave the bargman plugged in. ------------- Craig :: 2009 RP171 towed by a 2017 F150 |
Posted By: GlobeTrotter
Date Posted: 07 May 2014 at 1:45pm
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If just overnight, I do nothing. Hook up to electric and water (occasionally sewer) and grab my cocktail. ------------- Podding from Montana and loving it! |
Posted By: Budward
Date Posted: 07 May 2014 at 6:54pm
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Overnight quick stop at WalMart or RV section of a truck stop? I stay hitched up with no jacks down- if a need to leave NOW suddenly arises then I'm out of there with as little delay as possible. Think weather or more likely criminal elements. ------------- 2014 179 Towed by a 2015 Ford Transit Diesel Supervised by a German/Aussie mix and a Labradoodle! |
Posted By: M&L Fritsch
Date Posted: 13 Jun 2014 at 6:47pm
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We have stopped in picnic areas for lunch and a nap, we have also stopped late at night at different "boondocking" spots, the most we have ever done is add one small plank under a tire. R-pod to me equals laziness and leisure, the final straw to buy the R-pod was no tow mirrors reqired. ------------- Michael and Lisa 181G 2013 |