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Topic: Keystone Bullet Premier

Posted By: stimleck on 05/27/11 10:11pm

SUKISHORT wrote:

I don't know about the Bullet, But I have a Keystone Springdale, and love it. It's 5 years old and we have not had any major issues at all. There is the normal wear and tear thing, but over all we couldn't be happier.



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Posted By: NetAndDavid on 05/30/11 10:46am

Ok so we just got back and I am pleased to report that the plexi=glass over the outside tv worked like a champ. We were even able to leave the kitchen open all night, every night while we were out! Not too bad for a $25.00 modification! We had a total of 8 in the camper and we all had room to spare. All in all, not a bad weekend.


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Posted By: garysol on 05/30/11 06:16pm

Maiden voyage is in the bag. 8 hours of towing and I am happy to report no major issues. We are quite happy with our decision to purchase the 31BHPR. That is not to say it was perfect. A couple of gripes.
1. My biggest gripe. We filled the gray tank in one day. 4 showers and a few dishes. We had full a hook up site it was no big deal but we will have to be really careful when we are at a non sewer site.
2. There are a few staples sitting up in the carpeting. Easy fix.
3. I banged my head twice getting into bed. Not much head room there. I would gladly give up a foot of living area for a foot more in the master bed room.
4. The blinds for the kitchen window are set to close to the glass and will not clear the knob that opens and closes the window.

The PROS!
Everything else. It towed exemplary. I loved the outside kitchen. Cooking my early morning breakfast was that much more enjoyable. I am pretty sure that we had the nicest looking TT in the entire park.


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Posted By: RUFFSTUFF on 05/30/11 07:33pm

Jealous!


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Posted By: RainbowsEnd on 05/30/11 09:34pm

NetAndDavid wrote:

Ok so we just got back and I am pleased to report that the plexi=glass over the outside tv worked like a champ. We were even able to leave the kitchen open all night, every night while we were out! Not too bad for a $25.00 modification! We had a total of 8 in the camper and we all had room to spare. All in all, not a bad weekend.


Awesome, glad that worked out. I'm sure many will want to try this mod.


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Posted By: RainbowsEnd on 05/30/11 09:48pm

garysol wrote:

Maiden voyage is in the bag. 8 hours of towing and I am happy to report no major issues. We are quite happy with our decision to purchase the 31BHPR. That is not to say it was perfect. A couple of gripes.
1. My biggest gripe. We filled the gray tank in one day. 4 showers and a few dishes. We had full a hook up site it was no big deal but we will have to be really careful when we are at a non sewer site.
2. There are a few staples sitting up in the carpeting. Easy fix.
3. I banged my head twice getting into bed. Not much head room there. I would gladly give up a foot of living area for a foot more in the master bed room.
4. The blinds for the kitchen window are set to close to the glass and will not clear the knob that opens and closes the window.

The PROS!
Everything else. It towed exemplary. I loved the outside kitchen. Cooking my early morning breakfast was that much more enjoyable. I am pretty sure that we had the nicest looking TT in the entire park.


lol I have to laugh at #3 as that has happened a few times to us. It works for us, so much better than our popup I'll never complain. We nickname it our cave [emoticon]

I also agree that the knobs get in the way. We don't raise our kitchen blinds but do roll them open to look outside. The knob will sit in between the slats so when I roll them open or close it's ok. I have knob issues with most all the other windows. I just don't feel like I can get the shades far enough down as the knob is in the way. It's not just this camper it's the way most are made. Come on engineers fix this slight issue!

I'm sure it was the nicest looking TT there! Glad ya'll had a great trip.


Posted By: SabreCanuck on 05/31/11 06:44am

garysol wrote:

Maiden voyage is in the bag. 8 hours of towing and I am happy to report no major issues. We are quite happy with our decision to purchase the 31BHPR. That is not to say it was perfect. A couple of gripes.
1. My biggest gripe. We filled the gray tank in one day. 4 showers and a few dishes. We had full a hook up site it was no big deal but we will have to be really careful when we are at a non sewer site.
2. There are a few staples sitting up in the carpeting. Easy fix.
3. I banged my head twice getting into bed. Not much head room there. I would gladly give up a foot of living area for a foot more in the master bed room.
4. The blinds for the kitchen window are set to close to the glass and will not clear the knob that opens and closes the window.

The PROS!
Everything else. It towed exemplary. I loved the outside kitchen. Cooking my early morning breakfast was that much more enjoyable. I am pretty sure that we had the nicest looking TT in the entire park.


Great news Gary.... I have to agree with every single item. On the old trailer it was just me banging my head on the ceiling but DW has hit her head a few times now getting in/out of bed.
We left a hammer loose on the floor for the first couple of weekends for tapping down any of the loose staples I missed in the carpet [emoticon][emoticon]

Other than the stupid folding table which i just swapped for pedastals and the 2nd broken fairing brace on the slide side (mod pics coming soon) everything else is fantastic and a lot of heads turn at the campsite.!!!!

Happy camping!


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Posted By: garysol on 05/31/11 08:20am

SabreCanuck wrote:

2nd broken fairing brace on the slide side (mod pics coming soon) everything else is fantastic and a lot of heads turn at the campsite.!!!!

Happy camping!


I forgot about those stupid faring braces [emoticon] It is a massive pain to use my BAL chocks. I will have to fashion my own braces I think that will clear my scissor type chocks better.


Posted By: RainbowsEnd on 05/31/11 11:42am

AMPS! For our model Bullet Premier 28RLPR we have 30 amp and use the Progressive Industries protection. When all things are turned off it shows 3 amps of current usage on the Integrated Information Panel, so what are these 3 amps? I was surprised to read that the converter can take up to 5 of your amps just to operate and keep things running in your TT. This means the most you can try to use at full usage is probably 25 amps? The converter charging the battery is probably part of these 3 amps I see. I also understand the indicator lights for gas detector, microwave lights, entertainment system lights (which I'm not sure are readily turned off) can be as much as 1 amp. This sort of surprised me. Maybe I'm late on trying to figure this all out.

So I guess it's really only 25 amps if I dare to use it all at the same time, but with summer coming and air conditioner use I wanted to try to understand this more and not blow breakers left and right! I'm not going to overkill this topic but want to learn what appliances use how much amps in my specific Bullet TT and be prepared. Guess I'll start a list of the appliances I use and test for how many amps they use. Happy Camping!


Posted By: SabreCanuck on 05/31/11 04:28pm

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I forgot about those stupid faring braces [emoticon] It is a massive pain to use my BAL chocks. I will have to fashion my own braces I think that will clear my scissor type chocks better.


Yeah, I'm not too worried about the door side as much as the slide side. Under the slide, the fairing bracket is basically just a bent piece of aluminum that snaps after a few miles in the wind (twice now). Because it is under the slide the brace can't be connected to the frame and essentially is only held in place UP/Down but doesn't stop anything from moving side/side.. I'm not quite done yet but I will send pics when the rain stops and the mod is done.


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