Video není dostupné.
Omlouváme se.
Upgrading our RV Tow Bar after 8 years! Roadmaster Sterling Review
Vložit
- čas přidán 14. 08. 2024
- We upgraded our RV Tow Bar after 8 years on the road. We switched from the Roadmaster Falcon to the Roadmaster Sterling RV Towbar. In this video we go through the differences between the two tow bars, installation, connecting/un-connecting the car, and overall impressions.
My wife and I enjoy your straightforward and thorough campground and tech reviews. Great tip about the locking pins, I need to purchase them for our HR with Jeep in tow before we venture across the country next month. It's unbelievable how someone would vandalize by removing the connecting pins. Thankfully it wasn't a worse situation for you.
Thanks. It was a scary time and I have to admit we never imagined someone would do something like that until it happened to us (and until we got so many comments from our blog readers about how it had happened to them too!). We're very thankful no-one was hurt, and it taught us some important lessons going forward. Good travels to you next month!
Thanks so much for the shout out Nina & Paul! And for the awesome overview of a great product. We're so happy you love your Roadmaster tow bar as much as we love ours, but not surprised. Since we had to fight so often with our Blue Ox to get it disconnected during our first 13 years on the road, we thought that's just the way tow bars work. The only reason we weren't dissatisfied all that time is because we didn't know any better. By the way, our "friends" that we mentioned in our first Roadmaster video (the ones who looked at us like we were crazy for planning a special video to teach people how to disconnect a bound tow bar)... that was Nikki & Jason! LOL
Cheers for the comment...love your videos :)
We had an appt set up for a few weeks after the RV Geeks did their first video about the Sterling. I told hubby about their binding problems and he called and requested a Sterling for our installation. I want to say it was done in October of last year. Hubby drove it home and we winterized for the winter.
Our first trip is coming up in 10 days. We have a family reunion coming up in SC. I hope hubby remembers everything he was told. I am usually the handyman person. I swear he doesn't know the difference between a hammer & a screwdriver! LOL We had a new grandbaby last year and I was keeping her the day he picked up the RV & Jeep after the install. I have been watching videos. He said he couldn't get the tow bar to swing to the left or right, it just hung straight out and hung toward the ground. He doesn't remember if he got a storage bag. I told him he was supposed to. We'll see.
So, he threw everything into the back floorboard of our Jeep. I wondered why it was all in the there. That man is so disorganized! I told him to clean out the bays and find one with the room to to storage the tow bar & any tools that may be needed. We do want to find the locking pins like you have. I told him about your accident last year and haven't had a chance to look for the locking pins. He never trusts that people would leave the to bar alone if we left it installed at a campground. I hope everything is as easy to set up as you have shown. I hope hubby remember everything he has to do with the Jeep to tow it without damaging anything. I'm handy but not mechanical! LOL
I'm confident you'll find it a breeze to set-up, and if you're worried hopefully our little 5-min hook-up demo (in the video) will help. Good travels to you!
Nice setup. I went with the Ready Brute Elite by NSA. Not cheap, but it's a towbar and mechanical brake all in one. Cheaper than two pieces of gear. No problems in 2 years 😁
We've met several folks who like that tow bar. Great to hear it's worked well for you. Cheers for the comment!
I did not see you lube the locking pins. Any reason why. My locks get dirt inside and I have trouble unlocking sometimes.
They're new so no need to lube yet. But we will lube as we go forward.
Other than the cool brushed aluminum look and obvious weight savings, curious why you chose to replace your perfectly functional existing tow bar? Also, in the video it looks like the loops in the electric umbilical were perilously close to the ground. Do you tie them up a bit when traveling?
Just because we were presented with the opportunity for a new one in exchange for a product review. Our old bar was just fine even after 8 years of heavy use. As for the electrical cord, it's just fine when the car is fully extended from the RV. Sometime I fiddle with it to center it but that's about it. Having it integrated in the new bar is way better than the old bar where it was just dangling around - never had an issue though. The break-away cable for the supplemental brake is a bigger issue and requires some care.
Did someone randomly pull the pins from the hitch, or was it a case of "Uh, oh.... I did that!"?
Either, way, it must have been a frightening thing when the CRV hit the back. Locking pins are a comfort in many ways.
We are almost 100% sure someone pulled the pins. We do a pretty thorough check when we initially hook-up, but we didn't re-check our connections after we got off the 2-hr ferry ride and when the car came loose both pins were missing. So, we believe they were pulled.
By the way re-checking our tow connections (after every stop) is a standard process that we've added to our tow procedure since the accident. If we'd done this back when the pins were pulled, we would have noticed right away.