rv safety is one of the things that we always think about when we get ready to go out on the
road and now that we've actually been on the road for several years we've added some more
gadgets to our little arsenal when it comes to rv safety so in this video we're gonna show you
what we're using and why we're charity ben dakota and trinity we decided we didn't want to wait for
a life of adventure so in 2017 we bought our first rv and set off to live a life of travel in the usa
we've visited over 38 states in three years and have many more to go
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hello everyone and welcome back to the channel in the four years of rving we've seen several things
that have kind of gone wrong on the road when it comes to safety and the sad thing is a lot of the
things that we have seen happen to other rvers are 100 preventable when it comes to just using a few
gadgets and gizmos that help protect you while you're on the road so in this video we're going
to share with you some of our top gadgets that we have when it comes to safety and preventing just
tragedy really and how we protect ourselves on the road
so let's get started with our number one thing for rv safety
now our number one thing for rv safety is a rv tire pressure monitoring system
now this is super important for a couple of different reasons number one we obviously need
to know what our tire pressure is on the rv itself so if we have a problem with under inflation over
inflation if one of our tires is getting too hot that is a potential blowout hazard and having a
blowout especially on a drivable motorhome can really spell disaster so we want to make sure
that we're doing everything we can to avoid that particular type of scenario before it happens but
the other thing that's super important is because we tow a vehicle behind our drivable motorhome
is making sure that we know what's going on with those tires some of the biggest fires that have
happened have actually been because of a flat tire on a vehicle that was being towed that then caught
on fire and that fire spread to the rv and the driver was unaware that there was ever a problem
so in addition to the fact that we want to just know what's going on with the tire pressures in
the rig we need to know what's going on with the tire pressures on our toad at all times as well
so that is where this comes in which is the tire minder tpms system so we recently switched over to
tireminder from actually another brand and we were super impressed with how easy this thing is to set
up and we would not be without it so right now you can see all of the tire pressures on our rig
are good and it's picking up all of the tire pressures on our towed vehicle which is our
jeep which happens to be parked right behind us at the moment this is giving us just a constant
reading of what's going on so one of the things that we like about this versus the other unit that
we had is that if this does start beeping letting you know that one of the tire pressures has gone
out of the specified range it beeps about three or four times to let you know that's happened
but it doesn't keep beeping our other one actually would keep beeping unless that you
reached over and actually manually touched a button to turn off that alarming which if you're
behind the wheel that can kind of be a distraction while you're driving so we really like this unit
for that the other thing is is this displays all of the tire pressures on one screen some
of the other units you actually have to scroll from one screen to the next screen especially if
you have a tow vehicle that you're monitoring in addition to your rv so this shows you everything
on one large screen very very easy to read even for somebody like myself that's starting to
realize that sometimes i need reading glasses but it's very easy to see this nice big color display
and this helps us stay safe on the road today actually happened to be a travel day for us as
well so as we were going down the road the morning started off a little bit on the cool side and as
we were driving down the road we could see the tire pressures changing as the tires started to
get warm so we know everything is on the up and up we love this particular unit from tireminder
and we will have a link in the description below for this particular unit from tireminder
so our next must-have safety item is actually one of these gadgets called gas stop now what gas stop
does is it actually attaches to whatever you have propane going to your rv with so if you have a
travel trailer or a fifth wheel and you have like the larger 30 pound bottles or a 15 pound bottle
this goes in between that particular propane bottle and your rv if you have a class a like ours
you can still install this in your rv as well it just goes between the propane tank
in the actual lines for the rv now what this does is it actually detects if there's any changes in
pressures aka leaks and it shuts off your propane so propane leaks can happen in an rv especially
if you have an older rv or even just like with rodents that might want to gnaw on those hoses
we've heard all sorts of stories of people that have their propane lines chewed up by squirrels
and have had to change them out to all metal lines because of that so this is gonna actually
shut off the gas hence the name gas stop and make sure that you don't have any propane leaks if you
have something like that that has happened or if you have a malfunction in one of the components
like say your propane stove or something like that so this definitely helps to keep you safe
while you're on the road we'll put a link in the description below for this product as well
so our next gadget for rv safety is actually an rv specific gps now
why might you ask is an rv specific gps really considered a safety item
let me tell you why this little gadget right here from garmin actually lets us program in
our height and our length of our rv and actually the weight of our rv so this
keeps us safe in helping us avoid any bridges that are too low for us to pass underneath
any bridges that are not safe for us to drive over as some bridges actually have weight
limits to where you're not supposed to drive over that bridge if maybe you're over 5 000
pounds it also helps us to avoid any precarious situations such as narrow roads hairpin turns
things of that nature that would be a potential safety issue so we absolutely love this rv
specific gps from garmin we have been using this unit for about three years so this particular
unit that we have there's actually a newer model that's out and that's what we'll put the link in
the description too but needless to say we would not be without an rv specific gps for our travels
so our next must-have item for rv safety is a system called the safe t-plus now what this is
is actually an add-on steering stabilizer and we had this installed on the very first rv we ever
owned which was a 2000 fleetwood pace arrow and it made such a difference in how the rv
drove that as soon as we got this rv in 2018 it was the very first thing
that we ordered to add on and what that steering stabilizer does that is a safety thing
is if you have a blowout it helps you steer safely to the side of the road
but another thing that it really helps with too is it just helps with driving fatigue i'm able to put
many many hours behind this wheel on travel days as well as ben and not feel fatigued
because that steering stabilizer just helps with things like when you're getting passed by a semi
truck and it wants to kind of blow you over it helps to reduce that feeling helps with things
like potholes and when there's rough roads just makes things overall feel more stable
as well as being a hundred percent safety related when it comes to a potential blowout so you can
order the steering stabilizer from safety plus on amazon but they also have it from e-trailer
so we'll put a link in the description below for the safety plus steering stabilizing system
so our next must-have safety item is actually something that we just added and we added it
for a couple of different reasons so i'll share with you about that here in just a
minute but what we just recently added is this back up side view all view camera system
from firion which was just recently bought out by lippert so the reason that we originally got this
was because the backup camera that came with our rv from the factory with it being a 2004 it's just
getting to that place where sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes if you
tap the screen you can get it to work but that's probably not the most reliable method
of knowing that everything behind us when we're towing our jeep is okay so we knew we needed to
do something different when it came to a backup camera but the reason that we really wanted this
particular one from firion was because this added something that we haven't had before and that
is a side view camera so i cannot tell you how many times on a travel day when i am the driver
that it is very helpful or would have been helpful to be able to see more of what was going on on the
side of the rv as we were going down the road and this camera can show you the side of the rv
on both sides and it also has an option to mount a camera above the door
so not only is it a good backup camera but it's almost a good kind of all-in-one almost security
type camera system where you can have cameras over your door in the back of your rig and on the sides
of your rig to be able to see what's going on just kind of all around the rig at any given time
so we absolutely love this upgrade really has helped with just making sure that we're being safe
that we're driving safe on those travel days but also just helps to provide some extra peace of
mind and safety for when we're at the campground we'll have a link in the description below on
where to purchase this particular furion camera system setup now before we move on to our next
safety gadgets we wanted to take just a quick minute to thank the sponsor of today's video
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so our next safety gadget that is a new must-have for us that we just started using this year
is a dash camera so now this little bad boy just provides some peace of mind because let
me tell you a couple of stories of things that have happened to us and if this makes you think
of something that's happened to you leave us a comment in the description below and and let us
know what you have had on the road but a couple years ago we were in california and for no reason
out of the blue somebody literally pulled in front of us and break checked our motor home
now this thing is super big and super heavy and we do not stop on a dime so if you pull in front
of us and hit your brake extremely suddenly it is very much a dangerous situation for not only
us but for you as well so having a dash camera gives you the proof that you would need in that
particular situation to show who would be at fault should there be an accident now this particular
camera has the time stamps and everything that you need for it to actually meet the requirements
to be able to use in a court case or something like that so we absolutely love the peace of
mind that this gives us it runs all of the time when the key is on so that we just have that if
we need it and in fact we had another situation just today that could have been very very sketchy
very similar situation and so why we avoid accidents at all cost and we've not had one yet
this just provides some peace of mind that if something would happen
we're protected and knowing we did everything we could to prevent an accident we'll have a
link in the description for this below we got ours on amazon a lot of those lights went up
can show the proof that is necessary of who would if you are new to rv life and wanting
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