Car-spotting thread

Bike N Gear said:
Neighbor’s play toy before hooking up the Jeep and e-bikes. I still think a 5 star hotel room would be a better value.

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These seem cool until I watch videos online from these Full time RV people about emptying the “black tank” and getting covered in your own poop.

I can’t imagine all the prep and maintenance it takes to keep one of these up and running then you connect your decently priced car at the back.

I guess to each his own but yeah not for me.
 
iman29 said:
These seem cool until I watch videos online from these Full time RV people about emptying the “black tank” and getting covered in your own poop.

I can’t imagine all the prep and maintenance it takes to keep one of these up and running then you connect your decently priced car at the back.

I guess to each his own but yeah not for me.
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I went to an old-school barber in my town and all the people were hanging out talking about their RVs and it couldn't sound like a more complicated arrangement. They seem to all just have these complicated RVs and huge pickups to tow them with to go to crowded RV parks in Florida to park for a week.

AirBnBs and Hotels never seemed nicer.
 
Bike N Gear said:
Bought it early part of lockdown after the shortage had begun. Flew down to NC to pick it up. Now they barely use it because gas costs too much.
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Something that big and it's not a diesel engine?

mfennell said:
Probably just as well. Everything I've read says that most of them are just pure crap. Materials, assembly, everything.
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Supply chain parts shortages and staffing issues were a big reason for much of that. I purchased my teardrop right before everything got shut down. I've been pretty lucky with not having quality issues I've seen on the social media groups for my model. 90% of the complaints are operator error, 1st timers, not taking the time to educate themself, or all of the above.
iman29 said:
These seem cool until I watch videos online from these Full time RV people about emptying the “black tank” and getting covered in your own poop.

I can’t imagine all the prep and maintenance it takes to keep one of these up and running then you connect your decently priced car at the back.

I guess to each his own but yeah not for me.
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I've been lucky. We camp at locations with flush toilet. That way it's only used #1, no #2 unless it's an absolute emergency, no TP into the tank. We have what's called a cassette toilet: basically a 5gal tank with handles and wheels like luggage that I can take to any toilet and dump.
 
JDurk said:
I've been lucky. We camp at locations with flush toilet. That way it's only used #1, no #2 unless it's an absolute emergency, no TP into the tank. We have what's called a cassette toilet: basically a 5gal tank with handles and wheels like luggage that I can take to any toilet and dump.
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Seen pics of your new setup looks like a good middle ground not too complicated plus heat and AC ?

And yeah the toilet thing that seems much more manageable.
 
iman29 said:
Seen pics of your new setup looks like a good middle ground not too complicated plus heat and AC ?

And yeah the toilet thing that seems much more manageable.
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Not too complicated, but can be confusing at first. Queen size bed, heat, hot water, AC, microwave, 100w solar, kitchen sink, 2 burner stove, refrigerator, wet bath with sink and cassette toilet.
 
If I recall, we were averaging around 8mpg with this beast while towing and with me being a bit of a lead foot. It had the dd16 volvo 600hp engine and 12? Sp I-shift trans in it. And as for dumping black tanks, I've honestly never had any issues on any of the RV's we had. They all had black tank flushes, so I would just hook the hose up and let it flush out with clean water while dumping the tank and it would come out nice and clean
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