Product Description

A must-have for any RV owner, this newly revised edition offers detailed insight into the RV's innermost workings. From preventive maintenance, to troubleshooting, to repairs, Woodall's has created a resource RV users will depend on to keep their vehicles travel-ready. With easy-to-follow instructions, diagrams, and illustrations, the new RV Owner's Handbook will explore the various systems that are involved with both new and older RV models. This book includes sections on general maintenance, driving and towing, winterization and spring shakedown, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling systems, and much more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #137600 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 348 pages

From the Back Cover
Woodall's has enjoyed a long history of providing the best in directories, guides and handbooks geared toward the needs of RVers, campers and tenters across North America. The RV Owner's Handbook is a complete, illustrated guide to preventive maintenance and repairs. This newly revised edition covers RV issues such as towing with a motorhome, winterizing your RV, holding tank systems, heating systems, water pumps, trailer towing, spring shakedown, water systems and much more.

Customer Reviews

Highly Detailed Generic Book
This book was highly detailed but generic enough to apply to almost all types of modern RV's. I just skipped over the sections that didn't apply. If you ever wanted an easily understood description of water, waste, electrical, and LP systems...this is the book for you!

My main wish is that it contained more helpful hints and tips and maybe some checklists.

Disappointing in Contrast to Trailer Life's Manual, But Still Useful
My wife inherited a 1988 Winnebago (31 foot, no slide-outs) and we've decided to bring it up to speed for beach trips. This is one of two books I have bought to get started, it is the lesser of the two but still useful.

RV Repair and Maintenance Manual: Updated and Expanded (RV Repair and Maintenance Manual) is absolutely one the best car maintenance books I have ever had the pleasure of using (I also have a 1964 MGB and related maintenance books). This other book is brilliantly organized, crystal-clear, and I especially appreciate the full-page trouble-shooting guide with symptoms and fixes in two columns.

If you want only one book, buy the other book. I am not unhappy with this Owner's Handbook, I use it for overview reading, but it is not anywhere near as good as the Trailer Life book in terms of detail and trouble-shooting.

Very useful, Good photos
This is very handy guide.

We keep it on our MH and it really helps if you are trying to troubleshoot a problem with, say, the electrical or plumbing system.

It goes in-depth into systems and concepts that we as first-time owners have no clue about.

There is an extensive troubleshooting section that has definitely helped us on the road (where we didn't have internet or access to the forums on rv.net).

One complaint is that it is very general and completely non-vendor-specific, so it might not visually depict the EXACT system on YOUR rig perfectly, but it does give an exceptional general description about RV systems that can really help in a pinch.

I would definitely recommend this book, especially to any new or first-time RV'ers.