You have just bought a brand new recreational camper and have come home from a week at the campground. You small, lightweight travel trailer has dirt all over the top and even a few presents the birds left you.
Even the screens on the pop-up parts of your pop up camper are covered in the leftover pollen and dust from the countryside. You could just park your camper in the trailer lot you store it in and leave it until next year. Or you could do the right thing and clean it up before putting it away for the winter.
Caring for you travel trailer doesn’t take a lot of time and if you want it to serve you for many years to come, then you need to give it a good cleaning inside and out. Cleaning the inside is pretty straightforward, and you should follow the manufacturer’s direction when disconnecting the propane tanks and water tanks and winterizing it for storage.
Also, you will want to thoroughly wash the outside of your trailer and check it during storage to make sure it does not develop any unsightly streaks from sitting as seen in some pop up campers and folding campers, especially around the window areas. If your travel trailer is a teardrop style or pick-up truck camper, check them too and wash away any beginning streaks as soon as possible.
Before parking a comper for the winter or setting off on the first camping trip of the summer, make sure you check all of the tires on the trailer. Tires are exposed to UV rays all the time, and it can cause the tires to crack and the rubber to break down. Always check your tires for these signs of wear, and make sure they are always properly inflated. If they look in bad condition, replace them before leaving.
Finally, always make sure that the weight of your travel trailer is distributed evenly. Try to make sure that anything you are hauling inside is balanced so that your recreational camper doesn’t lean to one side of another. There are level bubbles on your trailer, and by making sure that they are in the middle and the trailer is balanced – even when storing – you can be sure that there is no shifting or straining when you leave for you next outting.
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