15 RV Modifications You've Probably Never Seen

THE RV OWNER'S BIBLE, the guide I wish somebody had handed me fifteen years ago: https://rvownersbible.com Diagnose it, price it, and walk into any service drive knowing exactly what you are talking about. People ask me about the odd bits of my rig more than anything else, so here they are. Fifteen changes I have made to this coach over fifteen years and two hundred and eighty thousand miles. None of them came out of a catalogue. Every one came from the same place: something annoyed me more than once, and somewhere around the third time I stopped putting up with it and changed the rig instead. Some of these are small. Small is the point. This is where I live, and a place you live gets improved in small amounts. I will also tell you which one was not worth the afternoon it took, and which one I still have not bothered to do. And none of this raises what the coach is worth. These pay you in time, not resale. Counting down from fifteen: · Thumb knobs instead of screws on your access panels, plus the nut trick that saves the threads when you cut the bolt down · Foam in the holes the factory left open, and the thirty day clock on the can that nobody warns you about · Rust proofing the jack feet in year one, and why they rot at the weld and not at the bottom · Sound deadening the pump bay, which barely worked, and why I did not want it silent anyway · Pulling the exterior decals, what it really costs you in hours, and the parts you cannot touch until the reseal · Cabinet catches that actually latch on travel days · LED in the bays and over the door, and the draw I did not realise I was cutting · Rubber matting in every bay, which is really a leak detector · A light inside the utility bay, the cheapest thing here and the one I recommend most · A thermometer and a humidity gauge, because moisture is a number weeks before it is a smell · A shower head that shuts off at your hand · A second shut off valve at the black tank outlet, and the ten minutes it saves you from · A pressure regulator that lives on the rig, so the decision is already made · Number two, the rule that explains why some modifications last and others get regretted · And number one, the twenty minute job I would keep if I lost the other fourteen What have you changed on your rig that you would never undo? I am especially after the strange ones. I read every single one. Full sections on paper: https://rvownersbible.com Subscribe for real RV fixes with real numbers, every week.