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Joined: 13 Jan 2012
Location: Lyndonville, VT
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Posts: 4518 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Leo B Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Topic: Pictures of tow vehicles and trailers
    Posted: 15 May 2015 at 9:55am
you will probably end up between 11-13 mpg   pods do mess with your mileage!
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Posts: 38 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Pooterpod Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2015 at 9:44am
I thought I would add our new 171 HRE and my 2011 F-150. This is a Idaho "RIG". I am hoping the TT wind resistance does not kill my MPG as I get 18 towing a similarly  weighted utility trailer that sits behind the truck out of the wind. 
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Posts: 4518 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Leo B Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 May 2015 at 7:41am
We did a similar upgrade from a 2010 171 to a 2015 179. The extra room and storage in the 179 is really great!
Leo & Melissa Bachand
2025 Ford Transit Camper van
2017 Ford F150
2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk
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Posts: 1 		Post Options Post Options   Quote 2peas Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 May 2015 at 9:53pm
We bought a 174 in 2010 and upgraded to a 179 this spring.  First trip was to Kohler-Andrae State Park (WI) on Mother's Day week-end.  LOVE the extra storage and bed-that-isn't-also-the-table.  We have a 2012 Toyota Tacoma double-cab.
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Hi Terry2Cent!!

what vehicle are you towing with if I may ask?

I'm in the market for a TV... trying to decide what to get!

thanks

Renata
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So my wife and I are off on a tour around the lower 48 states in our 171.  We picked up a two year old r-pod and trialed it out camping a few times before setting off from San Jose, CA.  We were pulling it with a Toyota Tundra (V6, 3400cc). 

Hooked up for departure

Pulling out

As our (bad) luck would have it our truck, Beluga, started having troubles in Southern California and wasn't having anything to do with hills by Arizona.  Coupled with other issues we'd had with it, we needed a replacement.  We stayed with family for a few days in Phoenix while we sorted out a new TV and are off again in a new (to us) Ram 1500.

On the road again.





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Posts: 148 		Post Options Post Options   Quote CFWARREN Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2015 at 12:19pm
Here's a couple, taken on my first trip out, getting a feel for it on the open road, spent a couple days in Central Wa, these pics are near Vantage, Wa:
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Posts: 9062 		Post Options Post Options   Quote techntrek Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2015 at 10:59am
We had Air Lift 1000 on our Sienna.  No issues with noise.  A shame you can't put a WDH on there, that is the proper solution.
Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Posts: 633 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Seanl Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2015 at 7:55am
QUOTE=Prof_K] Just got our new 179 home.  Towed fine with the Santa Fe but we do need a sway control. I would love to find some easy way to lift the back end of the Santa Fe. Hyundai doesn't permit a WDH. I'm thinking of trying the Air Lift 1000 system
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Air lift would work but I hear that some of them are noisy. 
Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition
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Posts: 5 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Prof_K Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 May 2015 at 6:35am
Just got our new 179 home.  Towed fine with the Santa Fe but we do need a sway control. I would love to find some easy way to lift the back end of the Santa Fe. Hyundai doesn't permit a WDH. I'm thinking of trying the Air Lift 1000 system
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