so if you're going to hit the road on your RV you want to make sure that
safety is at the top of your mind stay tuned and we'll share with you the top
five gadgets that we use to keep us safe while traveling on the road hello
everybody and welcome back to the channel my name is charity and I'm Ben
in 2018 Ben quit his job and we struck out full-time to travel with our family
around the United States now we've learned a few things over the last few
years of traveling and today we're gonna share with you our top five picks for
things that we use to keep us safe while traveling down the road now these are
things that we highly recommend and we will have links for each item in the
description below so that you can check those out and if you have not yet
secured any of these items you probably want to do so before you hit the road
next so first in most important RV gadget is the TPMS tire pressure
monitoring system and what this does is it will monitor your tire pressure and
temperature and let you know if it goes above or below a certain threshold so
one of the reasons that you absolutely want to be able to know what your tire
pressure is is because if your tire pressure is too low or the temperature
is too high you're at a risk for a blowout and that's something that is a
large safety concern but also a major inconvenience if you're on the side of
the road another thing is that if you do have a
tow vehicle like we have a tow vehicle that we tow behind our motorhome most
newer vehicles have a tire pressure monitoring system in them however you're
not behind the wheel of that tow vehicle you're behind the wheel of your motor
home in so the particular system that we use which is called the TST system has
extra sensors that you can install on your tow vehicle as well so it's
constantly monitoring the tire pressure not only on our motorhome but also on
our tow vehicle if we had a flat tire and our tow vehicle it would be very
hard to know that because we're towing it behind
our motorhome we do have a rear camera we can see what's going on but if you
have a tire that's going lower even going flat you wouldn't even really know
that until it's too late and you see something like smoke or something that
would indicate a very major problem so having a tire pressure monitoring system
not only on your rig but on anything that you're towing and so this holds
true also if you're towing a travel trailer or a fifth wheel so you want a
tire pressure monitoring system on whatever you're towing to be able to
know if you have a tire that's running the risk of blowing out because it's
over or under inflated or if it's getting too hot and let's talk one thing
about tires real fast too is it's important to take a look at the date
code on your tire and make sure that your tires are not older than 10 years
and if the tires are older than 10 years even if they visually look to be in good
condition it is recommended that those tires are replaced to again reduce the
risk of any possible blowouts way that you're traveling down the road we'll put
a link above to a video that we did that just gives you a quick little tip on
something that we're doing to be able to replace our tires without having to
incur a large expense number two in RV GPS although it's not foolproof it is a
great device to have with you in your RV the way it works is you put in your
height and your length of your RV it'll reroute you based on the bridges
that are along the destination so if your rig is too high it'll route you
around that bridge so you don't take off the top of your RV we've seen so many
stories where people unfortunately have damaged their air conditioning units or
other things on the top of their RV going underneath of an overpass that had
low clearance and they just didn't know their height or they had miscalculated
their height and so using an RV specific GPS can help to save you from some of
those areas now we did have an RV GPS take us down a road in the New
Orleans area that I wouldn't exactly call RV friendly but we didn't take
anything out we didn't take anything off and we did make it okay
though that particular road was a little bit of a nail-biter so again not a
hundred percent foolproof but it definitely is something that you wanted
to have and use if you're towing something especially that is a little
bit longer or a little bit higher in Height and we'll put a link below to
this particular Garmin unit that we use for our RV specific GPS now in the
Garmin's defense we did look at the website of the campground and it didn't
specifically say on the website do not follow the GPS and we thought hey we've
got it we're armand RV specific gps we're gonna follow it yeah it'll be fine
I shouldn't have done yes so number three is in aftermarket add on steering
stabilizer now we've owned two RVs over the last two years and we have added
this on to both of them pretty much from the day we brought them home now we like
to use the safety plus steering stabilizer and we'll put a link in the
description below for the safety plus website now this particular steering
stabilizer as an add-on to a drivable motorhome so if you have a Class A Class
C anything that you're driving we highly recommend it and that is
because one it just really helps with driver fatigue our very first rig that
we had just was not very fun to drive and we put the steering stabilizer on
and it was a night and day different it does help in the event that there is a
blowout or something of that nature to help you maintain control of the
steering to be able to get off the side of the road safely so the number four
must-have gadget for RV safety that we have is a surge protector now this is
very important because there is a possibility at any campground at all
that there could be an electrical surge and you definitely do not want to fry
anything inside of your RV so this is going to protect you from any type of
surging and we'll put a link to this particular one in the description below
but a few things that we like about this particular unit is it's
not as expensive as some of the units that you would install into the rig
itself but it's portable and it also has a little metal ring so that you can use
a padlock so this is definitely an absolute must-have for any RVier whether
you're using a travel trailer 5th wheel a Motorhome to protect your rig from any
sort of electrical damage that might occur due to an electrical surge when
you're plugged into an electrical hook-up so our number five must-have
gadget for RV safety is actually something that is probably already on
your rig because most rigs come with these installed standard especially if
you have a rig that is a little bit on the newer side and that is a LP detector
or propane leak detector most RVs have a dual fridge that will run off of propane
and also electricity and of course has a propane tank for things like your hot
water or your gas stove because a propane link would be a safety issue you
definitely want to make sure that your propane leak detector is working and in
good shape something to note is that there is actually a date code printed on
the back of these particulars detectors and it's actually a recommendation on
when they should be replaced and if you don't it'll wake you up in the middle of
that beep a false alarm that starts going off when that leak
detector is basically worn beyond its useful age in so it's something that you
want to replace every so often just the same as you replace batteries in your
smoke detector and that is another thing that is on our list of must-haves
gadgets is just those types of detectors in general so your propane detector your
smoke detector into what we use and have is a combo smoke detector and carbon
monoxide detector you can also find these types of detectors on Amazon
well so we'll put a link in the description below for some of these
types of detectors so thanks so much for watching this video on our top five
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