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Thanks Bill, I haven't been on the forum in a while hence my tardy reply. The info on the delam repair kit and video were very helpful. The method used was basically what I thought would have to be done but actually seeing it work is very encouraging. Cheers Craig

My 2013 Big Country is suffering multiple delamination problems. At only 2 years old this is not acceptable. Most appeared while it was in storage over the last winter and in most cases are not in areas where normal caulking is the primary defence against water ingress such as under the...

Adding the additive without retracting the landing gear will do no harm but it will do no good either as the additive has to mix with the hydraulic oil throughout the system to get out to the landing legs to reduce popping. The only way to do that is to extend and retract the jacks a few times...

A warning to anyone with Jensen outdoor speakers fitted to your rig to carefully inspect them. I have two MS5006B outdoor speakers fitted to my 2013 Big Country and a week ago I noticed that there was a bulge in the wall underneath one of the speakers. Suspecting the speaker was leaking I...

Hi Michael We offer a standard 12 month warranty but we don't ignore our customers after that. Generally speaking most electronic products, if they are going to fail, are going to fail "out of the box" or within a fairly short period of first being turned on. With good quality product, if it...

I see that the newsletter neglected to mention another source of camera systems offered by an HOC member. I represent InnoTechRV which offers a variety of innovative technical products for RVs (hence the brand name) including wired and wireless camera systems and hybrid wireless/wired systems...

We have used a zone membership for 4 years. It works if you are travelling extensively and can plan your routing around the 1000Trails park system. It works especially well in the North East and South East zones. We average 70 days a year in 1000Trails parks as we travel for 6 months which...

I am more than happy to be corrected if I am wrong but I was at the seminar and took notes and this was what I took away from it. I would also like to make the general point that factory fitted options are often (usually?) far more expensive than having the same options fitted either by the...

I attended the Rally seminar on the Valor TPMS system and cannot say that I was impressed. It seems to be very limited in terms of alarm conditions (2 as opposed to 8 on our system) and requires an external antenna that needs to be run to the back of the truck. We have never had a customer...

Brakes heat up to much higher temperatures than you were experiencing but your TPMS system was actually measuring the heat in the tire. The tire is the interface between the braking system and the road and is therefore experiencing considerable friction when slowing the vehicle and therefore...

Pluses and minuses. The main plus is the awning covers the door, however, certainly in this floor plan, the awning does not cover the main storage compartment (my workshop) and the slide over the storage compartment would be a major problem (needs to be moved forward. The idea would probably...

I cannot comment on the factory supplied hitch as we don't have one. Instead we have a 2" receiver which bolts to the bumper. I would say that the actual carrier we use (http://www.cequentconsumerproducts.com/Products/Cargo-Organizing-Bike-Racks) has done about 20,000 miles carrying two bikes...

6 point levelling is a no-brainer, especially if you have had a coach without it. 3rd aircon sounds good although in a lot of campgrounds you can't even run 2 aircons (30A) and even in a 50A site, with three aircons running, washer/dryer and microwave you may be blowing the pole circuit breaker...

A dragging brake or hot bearing will have the same effect on the temperature of the air inside the tire regardless of what sensors you are using. Air inside a tire is heated partially by its own movement within the tire (molecular boundary friction between the air and rubber) but more from the...

I would just like to respond to a statement made above. I have to disagree that an internal monitor is particularly more accurate than an external monitor. The external monitor measures its temperature directly from the same air that it is reading pressure from so is as accurate as an internal...