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    Posted: 02 Nov 2012 at 8:14am
Originally posted by danthoman

I was planning on emptying the tanks, opening the low point drain, blowing out the city water line, draining the heater and putting a small heater in the pod.  Will this be enough or do I still need the antifreeze.
 
 
It will cost you $10 and less than 20-minutes.  Why wouldn't you add antifreeze and complete the process?  I'm assuming you see freezing temps otherwise you wouldn't have spent the time to drain and blow.  To be honest, the time you spend blowing could have been spent putting the pink stuff in the lines and you would have been done in less time that it would have taken to blow the lines.
 
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We occasionally get down into the 20's and rarely into the teen's but it does happen. 
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Posts: 1004 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Nov 2012 at 9:27pm
Yes we have snow on the ground and it will be around for the duration of the winter. (april)
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Sure not as cold as where you are!LOL It will be in the mid 30's lowest when I get to go. Have had to cancel due to the snow and colder weather.
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That depends on how cold it gets where you are.
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I was planning on emptying the tanks, opening the low point drain, blowing out the city water line, draining the heater and putting a small heater in the pod.  Will this be enough or do I still need the antifreeze.
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Since I posted on the 22nd about it being in the upper 20's at nite, the weather has done another switch-a-roo..... Now going to be back in the mid 40's at night. Yey. of course I am not going out until 30th so it can change 2 more times in these mountains or the weather people were having us on!LOLTongue
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the 171 is pretty small for 4 people! some of the slide outs might make it better. I camp alone, now with 2 dogs.
I, too, hate to crawl out over someone, feel hemmed in too! I have taken the table out and stored it and made pretty slipcover for bench seats, fixed a seat between them against the wall, sort of a C shape and comfortable pillows. I did not need a table, was uncomfortable to sit at one or sit in the bed when inside, so having a small seating area works. just unfold a tray table for meal.
Health issues kept me from camping this year, only one time early Spring. Hope I do well end of month , will help me decide if I will keep it. Company for a lot of the time kept me from going too and a new puppy has me hoping I can handle both dogs!
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Well   ...we're one for two ! We have a 2012 model 177 HRE, made in Oregon. We do have the black water flush receptacle but we have (or had) no winterization/antifreeze valve.

The whole process sounds like king of hit and miss to me.

Fortunately, the installation of an "L" valve kit is relatively easy - - all except for the fact that the pump is UNDER the bed !!

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Posts: 9062 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Oct 2012 at 9:47pm

Sounds like you are seeing my pic in my signature.  I don't have any pics in my for sale listing here.  We love our pod but there are several things we need to find solutions for, unfortunately a mod would only fix one of them.

Our kids are getting bigger.  We thought they could share the dinette until they were done with camping but the complaints about X being on Y's side of the bed have been non-stop.  I've considered adding a temporary bunk above the dinette.  Wouldn't be too hard and would solve the problem.

I'm tired of climbing over my wife when I get out of bed in the middle of the night.  This might be tolerable if we had the 177, I could climb out at her feet, but no easy solution for this in the 171.  We put a step stool on the floor every night which helps a lot, but it is still a pain.  A walk-around queen would solve this and you don't need to go much larger to get one.

A dry bath would be great.  I could live with the wet bath if this was my only complaint.  It isn't a huge issue, but moving to a slightly larger trailer will solve this too.

I've hated the noise of the A/C in the pod since day 1.  I have a long thread here discussing alternatives but I'd rather not have to.

I responded to your questions about winter camping in another thread, bottom line, it isn't a big problem but you might have to winterize depending on how long the temps will be below freezing.
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