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Old 08-09-2017, 09:55 AM   #1
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Let the Adventures begin!

My fiancé and I are proud to join the forum today, as new owners of a 2017 Sprinter 312MLS
We are so excited to get organized and set up, to make it feel like ours and like home!
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated =)
First thing we added was the ecocamel shower head and WOW is that thing awesome!!

My fiancé is Brandon, and my name is Allison. We are pulling the camper with a RAM 2500 diesel 4x4. So far everything feels solid- even when we ran into crazy amounts of rain Sunday on our drive from Texas back to colorado, the roads were flooding- but we made it through safely!

Brandon will be staying in the camper while he is away from home for work in Colroado, and then we will use it for all our adventures when he is off work.
We cannot wait for our first camping adventure (together) that will be starting on September 10th!

First thing we are trying to figure our is what generator you all prefer to use for when you are away from services while camping? Any advice ?

Also any tips on your favorite things and methods used to organize the inside of the trailer and make the most use of the space we have?
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Old 08-09-2017, 10:09 AM   #2
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Welcome to the forum and good luck on your new adventures! There are numerous threads on the forum discussing various need and mods for the trailers. Using the search function should help you find lots of info. In the meantime here's a link to one discussion;

http://www.keystoneforums.com/forums...ght=owner+list


As far as generators, there are also numerous threads discussing those as well. A search will find those.
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Old 08-09-2017, 10:58 AM   #3
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Thank you Sourdough!!
I'll start reading through now <3
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Old 08-09-2017, 03:25 PM   #4
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Welcome to the club! Lots of good info. Sometimes controversial but in the end we kiss and make up...
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Old 08-09-2017, 03:40 PM   #5
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Congrats on your new trailer. The biggest mistake my wife and I made after the purchase of our pull behind last year was adding too many "incidentals" too quickly. After a couple months of ownership and a half dozen of trips, we soon realized that we didn't use (nor need) many of the items we stocked our trailer with. Organization would have been so much easier if we started slower and kept it simple. But we grew and learned and at end of the season last year, removed much of what we thought we needed but never used. Season #2 started much easier after that and we only ever organize the refrigerator now.

Have fun and be safe!
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Old 08-09-2017, 03:50 PM   #6
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Congrats on your new trailer. The biggest mistake my wife and I made after the purchase of our pull behind last year was adding too many "incidentals" too quickly. After a couple months of ownership and a half dozen of trips, we soon realized that we didn't use (nor need) many of the items we stocked our trailer with. Organization would have been so much easier if we started slower and kept it simple. But we grew and learned and at end of the season last year, removed much of what we thought we needed but never used. Season #2 started much easier after that and we only ever organize the refrigerator now.

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Thank you so much Busterbrown!

We are definitely trying to keep it light, and I really appreciate your advice because I am definitely one of those girls who likes to always be "prepared" lol.

I'm mostly trying to make our space as efficient as possible to start, and my amazon cart is bearing the weight of that hahaha.

Right now I'm looking into as many self adhesive storage/organizational things as possible to start us off right. We are beginning with things like storage bins with lids so we can stack them 2 high in our overhead storage cabinets in order to utilize all of our vertical storage space without things getting cluttered.

Next I'm planning to purchase (all self-adhesive) an under cabinet paper towel holder for the kitchen, a toilet paper holder, face/hand towel bar, along with hooks for the bigger towels in the bathroom, and an aluminum shower caddy for the toiletries.
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Old 08-09-2017, 04:43 PM   #7
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Thank you so much Busterbrown!

We are definitely trying to keep it light, and I really appreciate your advice because I am definitely one of those girls who likes to always be "prepared" lol.

I'm mostly trying to make our space as efficient as possible to start, and my amazon cart is bearing the weight of that hahaha.

Right now I'm looking into as many self adhesive storage/organizational things as possible to start us off right. We are beginning with things like storage bins with lids so we can stack them 2 high in our overhead storage cabinets in order to utilize all of our vertical storage space without things getting cluttered.

Next I'm planning to purchase (all self-adhesive) an under cabinet paper towel holder for the kitchen, a toilet paper holder, face/hand towel bar, along with hooks for the bigger towels in the bathroom, and an aluminum shower caddy for the toiletries.

I would advise to be careful with the "adhesive" devices. It looks like you are located in CO and Las Vegas...NV? NM? ? If the inside of the trailer gets hot the adhesive will melt and make a mess.

I tried keeping my spices (LOTS of them) in shelves, pantry, enclosed bins etc. but I always had to look for them. One day I saw these little adhesive devices at CW that had little clamps the size of a small spice jar. Looked like a great way to utilize the back side of the doors into the pantry area so I bought several and placed them on the inside of the doors. Fit the spice containers perfectly, could read the labels....just grab what you wanted, pull it out then snap it back in. They worked great the year I put them in.....then it sat through the summer in our storage building.

When we took the trailer out of storage to get ready to go to FL for the winter I opened the pantry doors......spice bottles and the little racks were hanging and drooping every where with long strings of adhesive - it was a mess. Spent most of a day trying to find a way to get all the adhesive off the doors. Threw the little racks away and now the spices are back in enclosed storage bins. Just beware.
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Old 08-09-2017, 04:46 PM   #8
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I would advise to be careful with the "adhesive" devices. It looks like you are located in CO and Las Vegas...NV? NM? ? If the inside of the trailer gets hot the adhesive will melt and make a mess.

I tried keeping my spices (LOTS of them) in shelves, pantry, enclosed bins etc. but I always had to look for them. One day I saw these little adhesive devices at CW that had little clamps the size of a small spice jar. Looked like a great way to utilize the back side of the doors into the pantry area so I bought several and placed them on the inside of the doors. Fit the spice containers perfectly, could read the labels....just grab what you wanted, pull it out then snap it back in. They worked great the year I put them in.....then it sat through the summer in our storage building.

When we took the trailer out of storage to get ready to go to FL for the winter I opened the pantry doors......spice bottles and the little racks were hanging and drooping every where with long strings of adhesive - it was a mess. Spent most of a day trying to find a way to get all the adhesive off the doors. Threw the little racks away and now the spices are back in enclosed storage bins. Just beware.
WOW thank you so much I hadn't even thought of that possibiltiy! I was always a fan of the command hooks and other things that used the 3M double sided tape- I hadn't thought of them melting away in the heat
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Old 08-10-2017, 01:31 AM   #9
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First, welcome to the forum. ^^^^They are correct, there is great info available here if you can manage to get the search function to work for you.
We have had great luck with the wall mounted hanging hooks that include the removable double stick tape. A little tab hangs down and when you're ready to remove it just pull down and it kind of stretches out and comes off. We just pulled six off yesterday in prep for a new RV and they all came off just fine.
Let me also say that I looked up your RV on one of the dealer sites and looks like one heck of a lot of trailer for the money. 55 inch big screen and theatre seating......looks good!
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Old 08-10-2017, 03:00 AM   #10
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Welcome! Sounds like good times in the making, well not the work camping part, but the recreational camping!

As for the generator; you'll have to see specifically which AC unit your model came with, either a 13,500 or the 15,000 btu. Looks like the base Sprinter comes with 13.5k but has options for 15k as well as 50-amp service pre-wire (maybe for a second unit?). Anyway, this will be in your stack of manuals, or alternatively pop the AC cover on the inside and cross-ref the part number.

The point with all this is you'll have to determine the total amp draw that the generator will need to support. That would include the converter draw, refrigerator draw, any other AC appliances that would be pulling amps - while the AC is starting and/or running. Theoretically with 30amp service you need at least 3600KW generator, but that assume you're maxing out the circuit and the generator. In reality many with smaller AC's (13.5) get away with 3000kw generators while the larger AC units do better with more (4000kw).
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Old 08-10-2017, 03:27 AM   #11
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Welcome to the forum from Kansas City, MO! Yes, this is going to be fun!

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