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Want to winterize your RV yourself? Here's how.

Many RV dealers offer RV winterising as a service through their RV service centre. The service is usually inexpensive. Often the service cost lest per hour than a repair. At Bancroft Motors RV Centre, we charge $90.00 for this service plus the cost of anti-freeze.

The reason I am posting this lens is to provide the "Do it yourselfers" with a list of things to do to winterize your RV yourself.

I am an RV and automotive sales consultant for Bancroft Motors in Bancroft Ontario. Although my expertise in sales, the service of your RV is important interest to me as well. I will continue to post more info on "do it yourself" RV maintainence and repairs in the future, to provide you with an alternative to taking your RV to a dealer or service centre.

Table of Contents

  1. Step 1: Remove the water from your RV's plumbing system
  2. Step 2: Flush the plumbing system with antifreeze.
  3. Step 3: Put it all back together.
  4. Reader Feedback
  5. P.S.
  6. Our Company's commercial on Youtube!
  7. Here are some book ideas on RVs
  8. Great Stuff on Amazon
  9. Jay The Car Guy
  10. More sites from Jeremy Lloyd and Bancroft Motors

Step 1: Remove the water from your RV's plumbing system

Prepare Your RV's Water System for Winterization

1) Blow out your RV's fresh water system.

2) Drain your RV's sewage tanks

3) Drain your RV's fresh water tank

4 Drain your RV's water heater ( Release PRV, Remove the outside drain plug )

5) Bypass the water heater ( connect hot and cold water lines together and prevent antifreeze from going into your RV's hot water heater. )

6) If the water filter is present, remove the filter and drain the container if required.

7) Disconnect your RV's fresh water tank line from the water pump and connect a temporary water line to pump.

Step 2: Flush the plumbing system with antifreeze.

Now it is time to run the antifreeze through your RV's plumbing system.

1) Insert the temporary water line from the water pump into a bottle of antifreeze.

2) Run your RV's water pump and pump antifreeze through all taps (Hot and Cold), toilet, outside shower and any other items connected to the RV's water system.

3) Ensure that at least one full cup of antifreeze goes down each drain.

Step 3: Put it all back together.

Your are almost done. Now it's time to clean up.

1) Blow the antifreeze out of your RV's plumbing system.

2) Reasemble the water pump.

3) Reasemble the fresh water tank.

4) Return the water heater back to normal operational mode.

If you are blowing out your RV or trailer with compressed air, do not exceed 40 PSI.

For Park Models:

For trailers, park models and RV's that do not have a water pump, an auxiliary pump must be used and connected to the city water connection, or kitchen taps, and then pumped through from there.

If you would like more help, you can visit us at http:www.bancroftmotors.ca or drop in to the dealership. We are located just five minutes north of Bancroft Ontario on highway 62.

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P.S.

Three more months to go before the Canadian RV season starts.

As many of you know, the Canadian dollar has dropped below 84 cents American. This directly affects the price of a trailer or RV. RV's that are purchased from the American manufacturers after the dollar dropped have to sell those RV's for as much as 22% over the price from the summer bought RV's.

Bancroft Motors still has 26 RV's that were purchased before the dollar dropped. This means you can save %22 percent right off the top. On top of that we have discounted all or our instock RV's by %15.

If you would like to know what we have left, please send a request to j.lloyd@bancroftmotors.ca and I'll send you a concise list.

Until next time, take care,

Jeremy Lloyd

Our Company's commercial on Youtube!

We shot this commercial and aired it the summer of 2008 to introduce our new RV centre. Bancroft Ontario, and its surrounding area is a popular destination for RVers. We opened our RV centre to provide service and sales to the Bancroft area, which was underserviced before. We now carry product from R-Vision, Forest River, and Great Lakes ( Canadian Made ). Brands we are carrying now consist of Super Sport, Trail-Lite, Max-Lite, Max-Sport, Trail-Lite Crossover, Boogie Box, Trail-Sport, Trail-Cruiser, Nano, Salem LA, Salem LE, Wildfire, and Windchaser. We will have more brands available in the spring and summer of 2009.
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More sites from Jeremy Lloyd and Bancroft Motors

Bancroft Motors Official website
This is the central website for Bancroft Motors, a GM and RV dealer in Bancroft Ontario. Bancroft Motors is the first car dealer in the Bancroft Ontario and surrounding area to add Google Friend Connect to the dealer website.
Jay The Car Guy Blog
This is my blog about General Motors. It talks about the history of General Motors and also about what they are doing now to turn the companies products and consumer perception of the company, around.
R-Vision
This is R-vision's main website.
Forest River
This is Forest River's main website.

We are currently carrying the Salem brand.
Google Friend Connect on Bancroft Motors
Check out this lens about how to set up a Google Friend Connect account and how using it on Bancroft Motors may help grow your business.

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