LindaH

These places are usually scams. Don't waste your money. Here's just one BBB report of this company...you can probably fine more: https://www.bbb.org/us/ne/omaha/profile/auto-listing-service/national-vehicle-0714-127001392

No, for the reasons stated previously. If you want to get your rig set up for satellite TV, think about what kind of antenna you want to use. Dome antennas (like those needed for in-motion) only "see" one satellite at a time. While they toggle between satellites when you change channels, you cannot watch one program while taping another unless both programs are on the same satellite. By the same token, if you have two TVs and one of you watches one TV while the other person watches the other TV, unless both programs are on the same satellite, one person is not going to be able to watch their program. So, if taping programs or watching two TVs at the same time is important to you, a dome won't work. We have a Winegard Trav'ler on the roof of our RV. It's an open-faced dish just like those you see attached to sticks and bricks. It sees all three satellites at the same time, so we can tape programs while watching something else with our Hopper 3. We just push a button, and the dish raises and finds the satellites automatically. You could also get a similar dish on a tripod and learn to sight in the satellites yourself.

Several years ago we were staying at the SKP park in Deming, NM. I had to go to the office for some reason and there were people checking in. I've forgotten if the truck was a 150/1500 or a 250/2500, but they were pulling a large fifth wheel and the truck was squatting just like the car in your picture.

Unless you are actually disconnecting the Wally from power, it's really *on* even if the lights are off.

We arrived at Pilot Knob LTVA last month and, at that time, there were about a dozen RVs here, none of which had Canadian plates. While more RVs have shown up since (but still pretty sparse), we haven't driven around to look at license plates, so don't know if any have Canadian plates, but doubt it. The Pilot Knob RV Park which is directly to the north of the LTVA is virtually empty and usually it's packed.

We were told to clean our glasses with Barbasol to keep glasses from fogging up...it works or at least lessens the fogging (other shaving creams might work, too). Another thing I've found that works to keep my glasses from fogging up is wearing the blue disposable masks because I can get the metal piece at the nose clamped down tighter than our fabric face masks, even the ones with the metal nose strips. For me, I also find the disposable masks to be more comfortable, even when I double up on them.

At the beginning of the pandemic all the SKP Co-ops shut down to everyone except leaseholders. As far as I know, those restrictions are still in place.

X2. 12 years fulltime, 10 years part time.

No, we did not install it. It is part and parcel of the tankless water heater and was installed by the manufacturer. I, too, looked at the brochure for the 2020 Vista and it does not list a tankless water heater as an option. So, I don't believe that you have one unless you were able to get it specially installed by the dealer. If you DO have a tankless water heater, you have to have means of controlling the temperature. With the 6-gallon water heater that the Vista brochure says comes with the RV, you can do some experimenting with leaving the water heater turned on for "X" period of time, turning it off, and then testing the temperature to see if the temperature is satisfactory for you to take a shower without turning on the cold water.

I doubt we'd do the work ourselves, so labor would probably add another $500-$1000. Probably not worth it considering we don't know how much longer we'll keep heading south for the winter.

I've thought about doing the same thing because I really dislike this tankless water heater! While I've learned to live with it, I would NEVER have another one. Would you be willing to let me know about how much it cost to replace the tankless with a tank (we'd probably only get a 6-gallon which has been more than sufficient in past RVs)? You can PM me if you like.

Exactly! 🤪

X2.

If that were true, it seems it would have been a problem from the start, but this is a brand new problem which cropped up this year after we dewinterized it. HOWEVER, we seemed to have solved the problem! Kirk, when you asked whether or not the problem happened when we turned on the cold water to a tap, I turned on the cold water at the kitchen sink. The heater came on (I'm not clear on whether or not it was actually the burner that came on or whether it was just the fan that came on -- we never went outside and opened up the door to the water heater to see whether or not there was a flame). So I went to the bathroom sink and turned on the cold water. It sputtered a bit, but then flowed normally. Anyway, that seems to have cured the problem because now when we flush the toilet or turn on the cold water at the kitchen or bathroom sink, the water heater doesn't come on. I have no explanation as to why turning on the cold water taps cured the problem, especially since when we dewinterized I'm positive I turned on both the hot and cold taps at each faucet and the shower. As I mentioned earlier, we rarely, if ever, turn on the cold water...the single-lever handles are always in the hot water position.

It came with the rig.

That's not the way this water heater is set up. There's a temperature dial in the bathroom where you can increase or decrease the temperature. We set it so that we can take a shower without turning on the cold water. Yes, it does. I'd never noticed it before since I almost never turn on the cold water.

No, I haven't. We're boondocking, so don't really want to waste the water plus I'm reluctant to put my hand in the toilet to check the temperature of the water (yes, I know it would be clean water, but still....). 😁 I can't imagine why the service center would have switched the hot and cold lines, anyway. The only thing they did that had anything at all to do with the water lines was winterize and that doesn't involve disconnecting any water lines anywhere in the rig.

Right. Except we can hear the burner continue for a short while afterward -- just like we can whenever we use hot water from any of the faucets. Yes, everything else is the same at all the faucets and the shower. Well, when *we* winterized it (we've only done so one time), I ran the RV antifreeze through all the faucets, including the hot water faucets and shower head (without the propane on to the water heater, of course), including the outside shower and the toilet. What the *dealer* did, I have no idea. But, as I mentioned above, when *we* winterized the rig and then dewinterized it, we never had any foaming at any of the faucets. *This* time after dewinterizing, the bathroom sink hot water continued to foam for a week or so afterward until it finally cleared up (although it still occasionally does so when we first turn on the bathroom sink hot water, but immediately clears up again). It's a puzzler, for sure. It doesn't hurt anything as far as I can tell, but it's certainly not normal and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.

I really have no idea whether or not there's a check valve. We'll have to pull out the manual tomorrow and take a look.

Water pressure at all faucets is good. We always run off the water pump from the tank even when we're in an RV park, which is rare. The heater stays on the entire time...we can hear it running for awhile afterward, just like it does when using hot water at a faucet. Both hot and cold are turned off at the outside shower.

No, nothing was done to the water lines other than winterizing. The only reason we had them do the winterizing instead of us doing it was because the RV was at the service center already, would be there for the next few days and the weather was going to get down to subfreezing temperatures.

We don’t have an Atwood. Ours is a Girard, but I imagine they all work the same. However, that doesn't explain why -- all of a sudden -- the burner on the water heater comes on when we flush the toilet.

We've had this rig for 7 years and this is a brand new development. I know *we* didn't switch lines and I see no earthly reason why the RV service center we took it to would have done so.

On a tankless water heater???

We have a tankless water heater (Girard). Lately we've noticed that when we flushed the toilet the propane burner on the water heater starts. I never noticed until DH mentioned it today and he doesn't know whether it's been doing this since we left home on 11/4. In October we had the RV into a dealer to have the DPH42 installed and to do annual servicing on the rig. While it was in for service, the weather turned cold (in the teens at night), so we had them winterize the rig. After we got the rig back, the weather warmed up, we dewinterized, loaded up the rig and headed south for the winter. One thing we noticed right away was that when turning on the hot water faucet in the bathroom sink, the water that came out was foamy. This lasted for awhile, but has since cleared up (we've winterized the rig ourselves and have never had this happen upon dewinterizing). So we're now up to today when DH mentions to me that when the toilet is flushed, the water heater comes on. Anyone have any ideas about what would be causing this? Is there anything the dealership might have done in the process of winterizing that would cause this?