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What do wise old van dwellers do in my situation? I tried having my van towed to a mechanic. It cost me $175.00 for the tow and then the problem disappeared! The mechanic couldn't find anything wrong. I had to simply drive it (no longer requiring a tow) back home again. The problem almost...

I read in the forum that Good Sam Towing is great because they charge a fair price for a year, during which time they will tow you to the nearest mechanic from ANYWHERE in the USA (plus) regardless of the distance at no extra cost. But when I tried to sign up, we discovered I my van doesn't fit...

Does anyone know of a chart that tells the story -- at a glance -- of how much vanlife has grown over the years, its periods of decline, and where it is headed now? If you do, I'm hoping you can post it here. I think it would be great to see not only where vanlife has been, but also to get a...

I have discovered my Express 3500 van's V8 engine is hard to start because the new (but cheap) battery I put in is pulled down to 10.2 volts during cranking. What battery can I get that will maintain 12 volts even while cranking my large engine?

I'm wanting to move 2,200 miles from central Texas to the Northwest corner of Washington State, which is the upper half of the Olympic Peninsula near Forks, Nea Bay, Beaver, Port Angeles, etc. Can you tell me what it's like there now? (if you've been there recently.) For example, are there...

Last night in the vanlife chat room (held Tuesday evenings from 7pm to 10pm), I was talking with someone who hired a carpenter that used everything from a table saw to a router, to help him build out a flawless van interior. And he told me the van that resulted is truly BEAUTIFUL inside. But...

Rvwandering, rruff and I were both rather devastated that you blocked our threat at "The Earth is Flat!!!" from any additional comments, telling us simply "due to arguing". The thread was meant to be a friendly debate (which is a kind of "arguing"). Both rruff and I -- if not others -- were...

Does anyone have information about living in a van in Figi? If you are curious as to what I could be talking about, here's an article from The Figi Times about it. But before I pay $4,000 to ship my van there, I want to be sure of what I'm committing my future to.

I have the above $682.66 propane furnace, still new in its box. I want to give it to someone who cannot afford to buy their own. I want to give it to someone who will install it in their own van to keep toasty warm this winter, just like I have been doing in mine. I ordered one furnace, but...

I have every desire to protect the environment, being a "nature lover" (especially forests, mountains, rivers and seas). So I purchased biodegradable bags to poop into so I could bury them, doing no harm to the earth. But sometime during the year, the rolls became like thin paper that easily...

UPDATE: I'm now only planning on security film, but to maintain thread history, here's my original message: I have the concept that I'd like to prevent anyone from crawling into my van through a window after breaking the glass. One bar across the window's center (or in larger windows, two...

I was looking for those plastic tracks used to get unstuck from the mud, when I ran across this astonishing thing. Of course, it's WAY out of my price range (and where could I store it?) But just for fun to see -- or for someone filthy rich -- I thought I should show you guys: THROUGH THE...

The title says it all. Each of my van's doors can be easily unlocked if someone breaks a window glass with a stone and reaches in to raise the door's lock lever below that window. How about I put one of these at the bottom of each door on the inside, but out of sight? These can be unlocked...

I've ordered the below Disability Scooter Lift Rack Loading Ramp Trailer Hitch Mount Now I need a cover to protect my scooter from wind, dirt, and rain while traveling down the highway. The cover shown below is the best I see for a mobility scooter like mine. But it appears to be totally...

I drove my van-home to Discount Tires and complained in their office that their workmen in the garage absolutely refused to put air in my spare tire, just because it's 23 years old and full of cracks. (That resulted in big friendly smiles, but no offer to fill the tire with air.) So we...

I bought a 1-ton Chevy Express van, and found I could NOT turn the nuts on the tires. What if I had a flat? I used the factory-included wrench, even tried jumping on the end of the handle without any luck. So I took my van to a mechanic, all question marks (????) about how such a feat could be...

They became stuck on a beach when the high tide rolled in, saturating the sand under their tires which then sank into it. This story is amazing, filmed as it was happening. There are some spontaneous swear words; but my gosh, they were beyond upset, they were totally scared!

PRE-SEASON: (my kid & teen years) From the time I was a small kid -- dreaming as I swayed back and forth high above the ground in our backyard swing -- I imagined traveling all over America in a small airplane or a balloon, believing someday I would do so. The concept was born when I was in...

I had the idea that the air near the ground under the van should be cooler than the air coming in my Fan-Tastic roof fan. So I drilled a hole in the floor to suck the air up, and reversed the direction of my ceiling fan to blow the air out at the top instead of bringing it in. I am truly...

I remember a video in which Bob Wells said poop should be buried something like 8-10 inches deep, because if deeper the air can't get to it to properly return it to the earth. That concerns me because I bought a post-hole digger so I can bury the stuff two feet under the ground building upward...