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Thanks John, My only concern is these trailer tires are said to not be underinflated or they can heat up and possibly blow out.

I run our 2022 LE2, between 50 and 55 lbs. on our Cooper Discover HT3, 16" tires. The higher you go the more jaring the ride for the trailer. Prior to 2022, Oliver was sending trailers out the door at 80 lbs. That shook a lot of electrical connections. We run with a full water tank.

Hi Mike, are yours truck tires or trailer tires.

My thoughts, exactly. There were plenty of scrape marks in the concrete above! The ALCAN springs probably puts me closer to 9’8”. Doing a backup exercise with no room for error for a couple hundred yards convinced me that a Dometic sacrifice was worth it!

I keep mine at 55psi. No issues.

Thanks John, so would 60 psi be safe? for a trailer tire.

According to Goodyear they come in 15 or 16.

Thanks dewdev, but I did not see a chart for for the tires I have,.Good year endurance ST 235/80r16 Trailer tires.

@grweber1 The 80 psi is the MACXIMUM pressure that the tire is reated for. Tire inflation is based on the weight the 4 tires see. Refer to Wayfinders post above yours. Also OTT is not recommending 80 psi.

You were lucky on that one! With our new air conditioner and new axles/springs our new height is 9’ 8”. My personal comfort zone is nothing under 11’! I have many times wondered what the real height is under a bridge seeing new looking conduit or some other pipe hanging under the bridge and/or a new layer of asphalt on the road. Hence my 11’ lower limit. Of course having an old Dometic air conditioner is sort of like curb feelers for the roof! No real loss if it takes one for the team! 🤣

The Entrepreneur made twin M 18 battery housings listed on eBay and ESTY would be the cats meow . They must be three D printed plastic if these makers could take that idea one step further and use a short pole to get the mini out of the brush or grass and maybe get a little better sky reception Hope I didn’t derail this thread two much 🙄🙄🙄

RV owners should know the height of their trailer or rig. For the last ten years 9’ 7” has been in my brain just in case we encountered a low overpass. My thinking has always been if it’s under 10’ I’m turning around! Some years ago we came to an overpass on a back road somewhere that was 9’6”, there was no traffic and I was able to easily back up turn around and find another route. On our trip home from Hohenwald a couple of weeks ago we were on I-35 South between Dallas and Waco when our GPS showed a red road ahead and recommended we exit and take back roads. That’s what we usually do anyway so we followed all the other folks doing the same thing. We started out on normal county roads but after a half hour or so we were put on a small, unnamed road for a few miles before intersecting with a major highway. We were one of many, there was a big boat and two long travel trailers ahead of us. The road soon narrowed to about a lane and a half. Basically one way traffic unless you moved over to be half off the road. There were a few oncoming vehicles, so we slowed and moved over. We could see the highway ahead so we ventured on with everyone else. When we got close to the highway we saw that we had to go under the highway, make a sharp left and continue on the access road before merging onto the highway. As we got closer we could see a big sign on the overpass - 9’10”. The boat ahead went right under. The 30+’ travel trailer stopped and two guys got out, scratched their heads, rubbed their chins looking at the overpass and their trailer while traffic is backing up behind us. They turned around and announced they couldn’t go under and would back up to get out of the way. This is on a 1.5 lane road, with a curve and a line of traffic. Cars started to scrunch over and he proceeded to back his long trailer with his big dually pick up. I put my truck mirrors in, there was about 12” clearance as he went by, slowly. Once he passed the guy in front of me came back and asked me “how tall are yew?. I said 9’7”, how tall are you? He said he had no idea and wasn’t about to measure now. He said I could just go around and then he’d do the backup thing too. When I looked at the line of traffic behind and the narrow road I estimated that it would be a better choice to break my 10’ rule and go for it. We pulled around the other long trailer and moved slowly to the overpass. Carol jumped out to watch and I was checking my mirrors. We had at least 2” to spare. I heard cheers and “he made it!” being yelled as Carol jumped back in and were were quickly on our way. Worst case I figured I might have to replace my noisy Dometic AC, but alas it is still there! Mike

Hello Oliver tire experts, Gary with hull 994 here. The old tires were at there expiration so I took off the 4 tires and brought them to discount tire and dropped them off. I had bought in advanced 4 new tires. They called me and said some that there was a mix up with the order, but they had 4 compatible ones. ( This was last fall and has not been on the road yet). So I told them to mount up the new ones, Good year endurance ST 235/80r16 Trailer tires. The Question is they are supposed to be 80 PSI, can I run a lower PSI like 55 or 60. I can not find anything on the google machine that supports a lower PSI. Did I get robbed on these tires and have to deal with the rock pounding they will produce. I also have the 4 ALCAN springs ready to go on when the Minnesota weather lets me.

It is"t uncommon for the Girard to not close flush. This requires a slight adjustment. No way that will lead to it opening.

Read my posts in this thread. I used a Lippert tinted glass insert because the door is a Lippert. Be sure to get the frame release clips and a new inside and outside frame because you will break some tabs while removing the frames. The new frames will also have new intact seals. After installing the clear tinted glass I wanted a blind that could be operated without having to open the screen door. I had a friend that sews make me a blind out of heavy curtain material and used 2 spring rods to position the blind in the screen door frame. The top spring rod can be lowered to allow a viewing area at the top.

I have heard of no Oliver / Garret awnings unfurling. My friends were in an Escape (Canadian) trailer. I don't recall the brand of awning but they were electric. I decided to do this after I noticed our curb-side awning was a slight bit ajar while on the road. It was not fully embedded in the housing after some high winds while camping. After I adjusted the motor, all was fixed. Yes, I should have done a more careful walk-around prior to leaving after the high winds. I also adjusted the wind/motion sensor to be more sensitive. Was not trying to suggest any problems with our Garret awnings. Just one less thing for me to worry about - hence my "suspenders and a belt" comment. Or, one is none and two is one. 😀

Nice job, Mike. Shame that this happened but given the age and torture that we put these rolling houses through, I guess that it should not come as a big surprise. I'd guess that you are now good for another ten years or so. Bill

We smelled an acrid odor one time. When I found it, very similar wiring failure connected to the Surburban Hot Water Heater, too.

Something very similar happened to us, except they used Wago connectors in the j-box instead of wire nuts. One came loose and the Wago melted.

I'm aware of swing out roller style awnings opening while traveling but I've never heard of this type of box awning doing that. The mechanisms are very different.

Strange. We have a 2022 and haven't heard this. With the wall panel switch off, that shouldn't happen. You can also push the lock button on the remote. Just don't see how that could happen. Never seen a post on the Forum or Facebook. So what awnings do your friends have? Are they power awnings or manual? Never heard of the Girard experiencing this.

Edit AI search shows the APP sleep mode can be set via APP sleep mode is not a complete shutdown but is a low power mode designed to conserve battery use so its sleep mode you want to set on your APP ——————————————————— For sure Need to review the APP to confirm this because my mind and memory are not 100% anymore. Plus I only played with it for 3-4 evenings i can get mine out tomorrow and double check

So, is this true? It would be great to power down the Mini via the Starlink app! I would do that each night from bed and would then have ample battery left for the next morning! 😎

We just got our mini and activated it from our home base, then switched the subscription to pause so I am not too swift on the operation but I thought I saw the option on the phone APP to turn off the mini via IPhone so I thought it could be turned off by APP without us streaking in our camp site also on ETSY and EBay are some pretty cool offerings that accommodate two batteries and have a small shroud cover that covers the batteries and holds the mini giving the batteries a small amount of weather protection look pretty neat to me