On Wednesday, 4/6/16 we towed our wonderful little Coleman 192RDS, 19' box, 23' overall, up to the Jacksonville, FL Camping World. We had spent the previous day and a half, with the trailer at home, stripping many of the additions we had made to it off, so we could use them on the new trailer. Some things we left on the Coleman, of course.
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| Last time towing our great, but little Coleman 192RDS trailer. |
A couple of hours or so later, we pulled our brand new Keystone Bullet Ultra-Lite 269RLS, a 26' box and 31' overall home. The dealer had to switch some weight distribution hitch stuff from the Coleman to the Bullet and we had them switch the really nice new bed we had bought in Texas from the Coleman to the Bullet. They also gave us a complete walk-thru inside and out, showing us that everything worked and how to work everything. Very thorough job by Chris. And of course, we had to sign a raft of paperwork and pay them for the new trailer.
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| Hooked up to the new trailer at Camping World in JAX |
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| Good looking rig! |
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| Pulled out into their parking lot just before heading home for our first pull of the new Bullet. |
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| After pulling several miles we stopped at a rest area to check things out--the rig was pulling pretty well in spite of some pretty strong wind gusts. |
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| In our driveway so we can start loading it up with stuff. |
Believe it or not, but we backed the new, longer trailer into just where we wanted it in our driveway on the first try!
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| The Super Slide has the dinette and try-fold sofa--this really adds to the space inside! |
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| Sugar Belle checking out her new home-away-from-home. She approved after a while... The super slide is open in this picture (on the left). |
We had a couple of trim pieces pop loose during the pull home, but I fixed the issues the next day with some good glue and paneling nails. We also found a couple of minor scratches we had not seen before and Jeri fixed those pretty easily (and quickly).
We immediately started moving stuff we had taken out of the Coleman into the new trailer to get it ready for a "shakedown" camping trip (next post). I also did some mechanical checking, i.e., tire air pressures. The trailer came with a mount on the back bumper for the included "Aussie" grill. I removed the mount since Jeri bought me a wonderful little Weber Q1200 for my birthday and it's a better grill and I plan to sell the Aussie. BTW, if you are in the market for a smaller-type grill I highly recommend the Q1200.
We decided to leave Friday, 4/8/16, for a three-night shakedown trip to the Wilderness RV Park located just a few miles east of Silver Springs, FL and about 60 miles or so from home. This would give us a good idea how the loaded trailer was going to handle behind our F150 Ecoboost Platinum 4x4 and how well the trailer systems were going to work in actual use.
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