2002 Trail-Lite Model 211-S w/5.7 Chevy (click View Profile)
Gene
Our unit is ready for another year of traveling. Our first outing is planned to be around May 19th. We plan on pulling our enclosed fiberglas trailer with motorcycle inside. Will have the bike for site seeing at the destination.
'06 Phaeton 40' QSH
'14 Ford Flex SEL AWD Toad
'04 R-Vision Trail-Lite 213
Scottiemom's Pet or husband to Dale
RV.net Rallies 13, Other Rallies 21, Escapades 7
Fulltimers since 2005, Where are we?
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avan wrote:
Dale: It was uneventful. We picked up the last two spots on the Cedar Island/Ocracoke ferry on Tues so spent Monday nite 'camped' at the front of their line. It was a beautiful clear sky, nice breeze day so the ride was great. Spent Tues nite at the Ocracoke NP CG with perhaps a half dozen other campers. Today took the ferry from Ocracoke to Hatteras. Similar day and once again a nice way to travel. Now at Ocean Waves CG for 30 days of R&R. Good luck on the appt for Butterscotch!
Avan - Welcome to this topic. I clicked on your profile and found you had posted to a number of different topics and different forums. If you have time to browse this topic, you will see it has been around a few years. It is the reason we bought our Trail-Lite because of the originator. We have not been disappointed. However, our likes are rather simple - small, adequately equipped, respectable mpg, not bad looking, and appears well built.
Dale: It was uneventful. We picked up the last two spots on the Cedar Island/Ocracoke ferry on Tues so spent Monday nite 'camped' at the front of their line. It was a beautiful clear sky, nice breeze day so the ride was great. Spent Tues nite at the Ocracoke NP CG with perhaps a half dozen other campers. Today took the ferry from Ocracoke to Hatteras. Similar day and once again a nice way to travel. Now at Ocean Waves CG for 30 days of R&R. Good luck on the appt for Butterscotch!
avan wrote:
Dale: It was uneventful. We picked up the last two spots on the Cedar Island/Ocracoke ferry on Tues so spent Monday nite 'camped' at the front of their line. It was a beautiful clear sky, nice breeze day so the ride was great. Spent Tues nite at the Ocracoke NP CG with perhaps a half dozen other campers. Today took the ferry from Ocracoke to Hatteras. Similar day and once again a nice way to travel. Now at Ocean Waves CG for 30 days of R&R. Good luck on the appt for Butterscotch!
Dale: It was uneventful. We picked up the last two spots on the Cedar Island/Ocracoke ferry on Tues so spent Monday nite 'camped' at the front of their line. It was a beautiful clear sky, nice breeze day so the ride was great. Spent Tues nite at the Ocracoke NP CG with perhaps a half dozen other campers. Today took the ferry from Ocracoke to Hatteras. Similar day and once again a nice way to travel. Now at Ocean Waves CG for 30 days of R&R. Good luck on the appt for Butterscotch!
Uneventful is always good! Thanks for the good thoughts on Butterscotch. Really watching your trip. Looks very interesting. We've been out that way but never right where you are. Have fun!
Dale
Dale Pace
Widow of Terry (Teacher's Pet)
Traveling with Brendon, my Scottish Terrier
2022 Honda Odyssey
2011 Mazda Miata MX-5
2021 Coach House Platinum III 250DT
Fulltimed for 15 years, now living in Florida
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the seriously unsettling effect of my misjudgement and resulting potentially fatal blowout spending 6 hrs in the RV trying to get our safeco roadside people to bring help, and ultimately calling our tire supplier - TCI - saying we'd pay for his roadside 2 tires mount (he was gonna leave us w/ no return call after safeco kept low balling on the service). unsettling.
subsequently, uniroyal agreed to replace 4 other tires after TCI told them how all 4 rears showed serious defect in tread donding. for reimbursement, uniroyal had us ship the blown tire, the bill for the 2 tires put on in field, and 2 estimates of damage repair from an RV shop. only one could get to giving a timely estimate, and it took 2 weeks. it was way, way high - $5000, mostly labor. when uniroyal saw that they contacted via a lawyer sayind we had hit something in the 4 yr, 10k mi life of the tire that led to its demise. did not acknoledge the other equally defective tires and closed the case. complaint to NHTSA that the Laredos should have been included in a recall proved pointless.
all the negative experiences above had me really wanting to exit the RVing kingdom. but after succesfully reparing (w/ a bit of copper tube flaring help from encouraging friends), i was able to fix everything w/ about 40 solid hrs work and $90.
2 good local SP outings later, i can say much of my MoHo mojo is back! i even took another stab at quieting overcab cabinetry squeaks/squawks with added screws around the center (former TV location) wood framing between the side glass-doored cabinets - anxious to hear the result.
TMI, i suppose, but kinda wonder if any of you have felt the uneasiness of being in the RV kingdom?
(dale, our blowout was exit 19 on I12 E, where did your serpentine belt fail?)
2005 Trail Lite 213 B-Plus w/ 6.0 Chevy
burlmart wrote:
(dale, our blowout was exit 19 on I12 E, where did your serpentine belt fail?)
(dale, our blowout was exit 19 on I12 E, where did your serpentine belt fail?)
Burl this Terry (Teacher's Pet) Dale's husband (Scottiemom)
We had spent two nights at Lakeside RV Park south of Livingston at exit 22 on I-12....we made to about the 24 mile marker the the morning we hit the road. If we had been in the B+ I could have changed the belt, but with Phaeton Place it was a tow (Coach Net was great!) and about $1000 for the labor and belt in Hammond. Not fun at all on a Freightliner XC chassis with a rear facing radiator. If we ever get another coach it will be a Super C or Class A with a side radiator.
i am oblivious to big rig stuff. i read where dale mostly drives PP and you drive other vehicles. how different is it to drive the big rig?