RV Guides and Investigations

Troubleshooting guides that fix your rig. Investigations that expose the manufacturers who built the problem. Written for RV owners, not for the industry.

Plumbing

RV Water Heater Not Working: Complete Troubleshooting Guide

Diagnose why your RV water heater stopped heating. Covers tank and tankless units, propane and electric modes, error codes, and when to call a pro.

6 min read

HVAC

RV Air Conditioner Not Cooling: Complete Diagnostic Guide

Your rooftop AC runs but the air is warm. Walk through the exact diagnostic sequence for Dometic and Coleman units, from dirty coils to failed capacitors.

6 min read

Appliances

RV Refrigerator Not Cooling on Propane: Fix Guide

Absorption fridges are picky about propane. Walk through the burner, flame, and leveling checks that fix most cooling failures on Dometic and Norcold units.

6 min read

Propane

RV Furnace Won't Ignite: Troubleshooting Sequence

Fan runs but no heat? The furnace ignition chain fails in a predictable order. Learn the sail switch, limit switch, and igniter checks that find it fast.

6 min read

Electrical

RV Converter Not Charging Batteries: How to Diagnose

Plugged into shore power but your batteries keep dying? Here is the ten minute multimeter test that tells you whether the converter is actually the problem.

5 min read

Slide Outs

RV Slide Out Won't Extend or Retract: Step by Step Fix

A stuck slide can strand your whole trip. Learn the diagnostic order for electric and hydraulic systems, where the manual override lives, and what not to force.

6 min read

RV Watchdog

The RV Buyer Betrayal: How They Engineered the Perfect Scam

Brennan McAuley was on the interstate when his RV tried to kill him. Two weeks earlier he had handed Camping World ninety nine thousand dollars for a brand new Thor Tellaro. What he actually bought, it turned out, was a stack of paperwork he had signed without reading.

17 min read

RV Watchdog

The Indiana Trap: How Every RV Lawsuit Ends Up in Elkhart

There is a small town in northern Indiana that most Americans have never heard of. If you have ever bought a new RV, there is a very good chance that the moment your problems started, you became a citizen of that town. You just did not know it.

11 min read

RV Watchdog

The Contract You Did Not Read: Five Clauses That Cost You Everything

There is a moment in every RV purchase when the salesperson slides a stack of paper in front of you. Hidden in those pages are five clauses that have nothing to do with price or financing. They have to do with what happens when your brand new RV breaks.

9 min read

RV Watchdog

The Quality Collapse: How Forest River Out Recalled Ford

In the entire decade from 2015 to 2024, no automaker in America issued more recalls than Forest River. Not Ford. Not General Motors. Nearly half of those recalls were not parts that failed in the field. They were manufacturing errors.

12 min read

RV Watchdog

Camping World On Trial: The Dealer That Cannot Stop Getting Sued

If you have ever bought an RV, there is a roughly one in three chance you bought it from Camping World. In December 2024, the Attorney General of Oregon made it write a check for three and a half million dollars for systematically lying to its customers.

11 min read

RV Watchdog

The Canadian Vacuum: Why Your RV Has No Lemon Law In Canada

Here is a question with a worse answer than you think. If you live in Toronto and you bought a defective RV from a dealer in Mississauga, who do you sue? There is a regulatory hole in Canada the size of a Class A motorhome.

9 min read