First time owner
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Topic: First time owner
Posted By: Joem
Subject: First time owner
Date 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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Posted By: Podster
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 8:25am
Congratulations on the new 177!  Let the fun begin!------------- Cliff & Raelynn Ranger 4.0/178 (1/2 ton 5,800lb tow capacity) |
Posted By: Pod4Two
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 9:40am
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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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Posted By: ron_whitt
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 10:54am
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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. ------------- Ron & Shirley 2020 Tacoma 2012 177 rpod |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 11:13am
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Welcome. ------------- 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: Podster
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 11:44am
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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! ------------- Cliff & Raelynn Ranger 4.0/178 (1/2 ton 5,800lb tow capacity) |
Posted By: kymooses
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 1:51pm
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Glad to have you all out Podding with us! ------------- https://calendar.google.com/calendar?cid=cnBvZC5zcG90dGVyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ - RPod Rallies https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1W1foQXGtrjf8aYly1uh0b-bHPfI&hl=en_US - RPod Owner Map |
Posted By: shroomer
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2014 at 9:42pm
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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. Enjoy. ------------- Larry and Debbie w/Rosie the mutt. Old: '13 177, '06 Silverado V6 New: '15 Whitehawk 20MRB '14 Silverado V8 |
Posted By: Larry158
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2014 at 11:15am
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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. Larry158
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Posted By: Podster
Date 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.  I may even flush it out then switch the valves and then sanitize. ------------- Cliff & Raelynn Ranger 4.0/178 (1/2 ton 5,800lb tow capacity) |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2014 at 1:57pm
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Correct. ------------- 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: Larry158
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2014 at 8:35am
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Cliff & Raelyn & tehntrek, Thank you for your responses. Cliff & Raelyn-when you mentioned sanitize did you mean chemicals in the toilet or puttting bleach tablets in the fresh water tank. Thanks Larry158
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Posted By: Podster
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2014 at 9:29am
No tablets, but a diluted liquid mixture. You can find helpful checklists within the forum on many POD procedures by clicking on the blue hyper link in techntrek's signature block http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual located right above the picture on all of Doug's posts. The link below should take you to the same document that will list de-winterize procedures which also addresses procedures for sanitation of the fresh water system. http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723&PID=14734&title=creating-an-instruction-maintanence-manual#14734 - http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723&PID=14734&title=creating-an-instruction-maintanence-manual#14734 Good luck Sir,
------------- Cliff & Raelynn Ranger 4.0/178 (1/2 ton 5,800lb tow capacity) |
Posted By: Seanl
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2014 at 12:39pm
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Welcome to the forum ------------- Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition 
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