Unhitch TV or stay hitched up? |
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P&M
Senior Member Joined: 13 Aug 2012 Location: Spokane, WA Online Status: Offline Posts: 454 |
Topic: Unhitch TV or stay hitched up? Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 5:40pm |
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?
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P & M ... and Comet too!
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Leo B
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4517 |
Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 6:21pm |
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.
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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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Hairy Podders
Senior Member Joined: 05 Mar 2014 Location: Northwest Ohio Online Status: Offline Posts: 217 |
Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 10:26pm |
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.
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Darryl, Julie & Lindsey
Cooper & Libby- Devoted Canines 2014 RP178 2006 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon |
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Sleepless
Senior Member Joined: 07 Jun 2013 Location: Titusville, FL Online Status: Offline Posts: 556 |
Posted: 10 Apr 2014 at 10:38pm |
This all assumes that your pod is setting relatively level, front to back.
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2014 R-Pod 178 (OUR POD)
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1049 |
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 6:48am |
i don't do a thing, just jump in bed and snooze.
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Jon & Pam
2013 RP177 2010 F150 2017 HD Streetglide 2009 HD Lowrider CHEESEHEAD |
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LePodders
Groupie Joined: 20 Nov 2013 Location: Louisiana Online Status: Offline Posts: 80 |
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 11:18am |
we unplug from TV and but stay hitched
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Keenan, Kathryn, Millie, Rio & Cali (2015 r pod 179)
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Seanl
Senior Member Joined: 19 Sep 2011 Location: Fredericton NB Online Status: Offline Posts: 633 |
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 1:46pm |
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.
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Sean, 2011 Rpod RP-173,2009 Jeep Liberty Rocky Mountain Edition
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
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.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Outbound
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 19 Nov 2009 Location: Oshawa, Ontario Online Status: Offline Posts: 767 |
Posted: 11 Apr 2014 at 8:10pm |
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.
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Craig :: 2009 RP171 towed by a 2017 F150
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GlobeTrotter
Newbie Joined: 27 Feb 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20 |
Posted: 07 May 2014 at 1:45pm |
If just overnight, I do nothing. Hook up to electric and water (occasionally sewer) and grab my cocktail.
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Podding from Montana and loving it!
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