moechester
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Bought my first and only RV almost exactly a year ago. New 2015 Winnebago Forza 36G. My wife and I went from looking at lake cabins to purchasing a cabin on wheels literally over night. We saved our nickels for a long time and for some reason decided to purchase an RV instead of the lake cabin literally at the last minute. Honestly, we do not regret the RV purchase at all. We love the RV lifestyle. We can go to any lake we want now. We put a little over 5000 miles on black beauty in one year. I will admit I wanted to shoot something a time or two learning the RV systems. We were lucky and did not have any major issues with our Forza. A few punch list items and several weeks at the dealer getting stuff fixed and all seems to be good. I hope it stays that way. The Forza 36G is a great coach and served our needs well. Now to a few newbie funny stories.
Me and the black tank have not got along from day one. After a weekend of boondocking pulled into the Flying J to fuel up and empty the tanks before heading home. I removed the cap to install the sewer hose and oh my!! The black tank valve was open? Who knows why? I proceed to panic while being covered in black tank sludge. By the time I gathered my thoughts it was beyond too late. I am covered from head to toe with filth. To make things worse the Flying J attendant filling a propane bottle saw the whole thing. The only person laughing harder was my wife standing off to the side. I finally saw the humor in the situation after a few choice words. Did the best I could to clean up my mess, took off my soiled clothes and threw them in the trash and made a mad dash almost nude to the entry door on my RV. Not a good day.
I made a decision to interpret the Texas law in a manner that suited me. I learned real quick my interpretation was wrong. I chose not to take my non CDL B endorsement test simply because I figured I was good since my RV was for personal use. Boy was I wrong. A very nice Texas DPS officer proceeded to pull me over. I eased off to a safe place and wondered what I had done wrong? Failed to use my turn signal when entering the freeway. That seemed silly but an infraction nonetheless? He ran my license and informed me I was not qualified to drive my own RV? My response was polite and honest and the nice DPS officer understood. He was very nice to not write me a ticket, but would not allow me to drive the RV since I did not have the proper credentials to drive my own coach. I had to call a buddy on a Sunday night that was a CDL driver to come and drive my RV home for me. How embarrassed I was is actually hard to explain? When my buddy arrived we had lawn chairs out and was watching TV on the side of the road with the nice DPS officer. For some reason he stayed with us until my buddy arrived? I did not know they could actually prevent me from driving my own RV? Nonetheless, I now have my Texas B non CDL endorsement.
This is just a couple of self inflicted issues I had during my first year of ownership. Honestly, I would not trade any of these memories made, including the black tank incident, for nothing. My wife and I made great memories this year and looking forward to many many more to come.
Me and the black tank have not got along from day one. After a weekend of boondocking pulled into the Flying J to fuel up and empty the tanks before heading home. I removed the cap to install the sewer hose and oh my!! The black tank valve was open? Who knows why? I proceed to panic while being covered in black tank sludge. By the time I gathered my thoughts it was beyond too late. I am covered from head to toe with filth. To make things worse the Flying J attendant filling a propane bottle saw the whole thing. The only person laughing harder was my wife standing off to the side. I finally saw the humor in the situation after a few choice words. Did the best I could to clean up my mess, took off my soiled clothes and threw them in the trash and made a mad dash almost nude to the entry door on my RV. Not a good day.
I made a decision to interpret the Texas law in a manner that suited me. I learned real quick my interpretation was wrong. I chose not to take my non CDL B endorsement test simply because I figured I was good since my RV was for personal use. Boy was I wrong. A very nice Texas DPS officer proceeded to pull me over. I eased off to a safe place and wondered what I had done wrong? Failed to use my turn signal when entering the freeway. That seemed silly but an infraction nonetheless? He ran my license and informed me I was not qualified to drive my own RV? My response was polite and honest and the nice DPS officer understood. He was very nice to not write me a ticket, but would not allow me to drive the RV since I did not have the proper credentials to drive my own coach. I had to call a buddy on a Sunday night that was a CDL driver to come and drive my RV home for me. How embarrassed I was is actually hard to explain? When my buddy arrived we had lawn chairs out and was watching TV on the side of the road with the nice DPS officer. For some reason he stayed with us until my buddy arrived? I did not know they could actually prevent me from driving my own RV? Nonetheless, I now have my Texas B non CDL endorsement.
This is just a couple of self inflicted issues I had during my first year of ownership. Honestly, I would not trade any of these memories made, including the black tank incident, for nothing. My wife and I made great memories this year and looking forward to many many more to come.
the valve didn't want to close and spillage not much. We managed to close it and leave and tried again later in the day and long and behold with rubber gloves found a nice long piece of moulding in the black tank...took it out...all pumped fine! Geez, the guy assembling the coach just left it there... 
