It was clear early on that some modifications and add-ons would be necessary for our RV. And isn’t that the case with all these vehicles? I actually drove her for about year on the original Mercedes suspension. Small roads, low speeds was fine with it. But once you got on a long haul highway or off-road, things were often sketchy. Sorry if the pics here don’t do it justice, but we added four new shocks and two (in the rear) air-dampers. Along with the air-dampers, I had them include an air pump where I could not only work the air-dampers up and down but I can also control and adjust wheel pressure. The air compressor is up front, under the hood/bonnet.
The skid plate is for protecting both the grey water and the fresh water tanks. The saying goes, with this vehicle, that if you don’t invest in extra support for these tanks, the chances of losing one or both increases with mileage, especially if you do a lot of off-roading. In fact, the manufacturer states through out the vehicle manual that one is only supposed to drive with no more that twenty litres of fresh water. Now if that ain’t a kinda … WOW, I don’t know what it is. Good thing we don’t have to worry about that anymore. (Fingers crossed!)
Recently I also added some extra storage trickery in the garage (the two vertical plates on the back wall). This should help us deal with issues regarding not only storage but organising everything in the garage. Between two e-bikes and whatnot it’s been pretty chaotic back there so far. Since I just installed the plates, this winter is a good chance to get to know some new storage capability as we won’t be using our e-bikes much anyway, which have their own connecting harness/mount between the two vertical plates. More to come on that.
Ok. Enough for now. Rant on.
-T