Mike and Carol

The second one pulled by a dark pickup was us. We’re at Catalina State Park, Tucson for now. We noticed you on the eastbound side.

My 2016 manual doesn’t have a diagram either. There was no diagram anywhere in the trailer. I’ve just had to figure it out over the years.

Thanks for this post! Our Oliver is our first travel trailer as well. Your experience is good info for folks like us that occasionally look at the bigger trailers and think something about them might be nice. We’ll be sticking with what we’ve got! Mike

When I had the Coopers installed a few years ago, at the same DT, they filled to my specifications. Probably an individual issue.

We’re leaving today. Spending some time at Catalina and Lost Dutchman then will swing by Q for a few days before going to Lake Havasu.

We’ve got one too, doesn’t put out much but it is there!

Discount Tire put 75psi in the new tire, because that’s what their policy is. I just winked at the guy and corrected it when I got home.

Same here. We’ll be watching from the driveway.

In 2018 or 2019 there was a group of us camping at Quartzsite. The Olivers drove down from Lake Havasu to join us with Jim’s personal Elite II. One evening we all decided to go out for dinner as a group. When “check” time came the waitress said it was all taken care of. There were at least 20 of us there, the Olivers are generous and kind. Mike

I run an electric space heater in the trailer when we get freezing temps. We had several days in the teens this week and the heater worked fine. I open everything up so air can circulate between the hulls. I also frequently use a small electric cube heater in the back curbside corner. This has worked for years. I have occasionally traveled with the furnace on with no issues. We always run the fridge on propane when traveling, so the propane is on. Mike

I’ve never had any odd temperature readings on any of the four tires on my TST TPMS. I’ll be checking wheel temperature now too….

The RV tech mentioned defective tire too. I do have a temp monitor, just haven’t used it much. I will next week as we tackle I-10 West.

We lived in Sierra Vista/Fort Huachuca for many years. Love that part of Arizona! Mike

OK, so I’ve been around town trying to get a definitive issue to blame this on, the weather presented some challenges since most folks around here aren’t used to temps in the teens. I got the tires off the ground, checked freeplay, spinning, looked at shock, etc. Checked with a level. Took to to an RV tech, he said shock is worn but still functional, recommended replacing soon. Bearings were okay. He thought tire balance may be an issue, also recommended a higher TP since these are LT tires and not trailer tires. I have them set at 50psi, so I will up that on this next trip. The Discount Tire guys said it could have been a missing weight causing a balance issue and they also recommended raising TP to at least 60psi. They did find a nail in the tire, right in the middle between treads that wasn’t very visible until the wheel was removed. So the bad tire is gone. We’re going to Arizona Monday. When we return I’m going to replace all the shocks and bearings. After 100K miles I think it would be prudent, probably should have done it earlier. I’ll be watching that tire, I do have a IR heat sensor which I haven’t used much, but will as we travel next week. Mike

Looks like a great spot! We enjoy Dead Horse Ranch State Park and the surrounding area. We’ll be leaving for AZ Monday. Mike

Probably because he posted the same text to several travel trailer forums in his information seeking quest and just wanted to type his narrative once. Mike

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We’ve been to the show several times, always fun with a lot of interesting and unusual items along with the standard camping gear. Mike

Thanks for all the good suggestions, everyone. Lots of good information here. I’ll venture out to the driveway this afternoon and do some checking. Mike

The street side tire is fine. Looks new. The wear on the tire in question is not even, there are flat spots evenly spaced all around. I checked with Discount Tire and will have a new one put on next week. I’m going to get it off the ground tomorrow and check free play and do some measuring. Monday I’ll give my local repair guy a call to see if he can look at it sometime next week. I knew I shouldn’t have taken the trailer rock climbing in Colorado last summer! 🤣

They were balanced and mounted at Discount Tire in January 2021. I have 42,044 miles on them (not counting miles in the local area for maintenance and to/from storage). No rotations or balancing since. This is not something I’ve noticed before and I do check the tires before/after trips. Like I said, the other three look new still. All four old tires these replaced looked new after 5 years. Maybe I hit a pothole or something recently….

Our trailer is 8 years old. We had it ceramic coated by the CGI team last year and the fiberglass looks as good as or better than new. Unfortunately, the outlet covers on the 110 outlet and back jack switches had turned yellow. The plastic chrome bezels around the tail lights had lost their shine. So, while this isn’t an easy “mod” it is an easy and inexpensive maintenance project. I ordered new Furrion outlet covers and six new chrome light bezels and had them all replaced in about 15 minutes. All are available on Amazon. Furrion Outlet Cover Light Bezel Old and new. This looks much better than the yellow version. Old and new. New bezel on top, old bezels in the middle and bottom.

Tire experts….. I was doing some maintenance today before we head to Arizona next week. I noticed one of my tires had a significant amount of wear while the other three still look new. It’s the curbside back tire, it looks like it has flat spots all around and the tread is worn down to the wear bars. The other three show no wear. Is this a wheel problem, axle problem, or something else? I’m going to call Discount Tire to order a new one. Mike Worn tire, rear curbside. Street side rear tire. The two fronts look the same.

We like Picacho Peak, should be driving by in a week or so! Civil War battle fought there….

We started with heads by the nightstand. After a couple of years we switched to heads by the kitchen. We did that a few years and now we’re back to heads near the nightstand. We always made the beds with the pillows at the nightstand. Either way works for us. We’ve also switched to using sleeping bags the last couple of years, easier than making up the beds each morning. We still have sheets and a bedspread we just throw our bags on top to sleep. Simple is good. Mike