RV Auto Level Tips!
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2021
- RV Auto Level is great when it works and frustrating when it doesn't. Today I wanted to share some tips that help it function more consistently for better results. I hope these RV Tips help you enjoy RVing more and spend less time frustrated with the Auto Level on the RV.
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Thanks Jared!! Your videos helped me a lot installing my solar in my 2017 Reflection 303rls!
You my friend are one of only a few that I feel knows what your doing
Thank you
We use Anderson red buckets under our jacks and love them.
Great info. We kept our level mate pro specifically to check sites for side to side levelness. If you lift your rig you can cause damage to your springs if the spring connections to the tandem coupler goes upside down!
I have the 3.0 system on a '16 Grand Design 29RS and have been using it since March. We love it! I watch my neighbors messing with their blocks and jacks for 20 minutes and I push the button, smile and finish my sandwich. It does seem that the menus are more complicated than they need to be and a more simplified, intuitive system would be nice but it works
Awesome information...for anyone to use..great job. Thanks 😊
Excellent tips! Thanks Jared!!
Thank you. New to rv life and our auto Jack's said they extended too far.. Brought 3 of 4 wheels off ground. We put some blocks under a side and it leveled OK, but still have one side off ground (wheels) so we will revisit this tomorrow for a fix. We are learning as we go! Thanks. For the tips
Eyeball check yes. I’ve been manually leveling with a bubble level inside. We have a super C.
I’ve been touching the night side or end down first then being the low side up. Test or level fire and aft a needed. This seems to get all levelers down and tight first attempt. I Lao try to drive onto blocks to get the rig close before attempting the hydraulic leveling. Thanks Jered
Great info. Will have to try some of the setup techniques you discussed. My unit levels too high when it's sloping down in the front.
Great video! I think we learned each of those the hard way.
Thank you. Great info and tips
We found that when using Anderson Levelers, the RV would still move front to back even when the raised side was chocked. To remedy this we put rubber chocks around the wheels on the ground and use an X-chock for the wheels that are on Anderson’s.
Great tips Jared 👍
Great tips! Maybe do a Vlog on calibrating step by step. Stay safe.
Thanks
Great video! 💯 Appreciate all the good information! 👍🏼
Thanks
Wire nuts and electrical tape. Had break wires rip loose while in the mountains. No breaks. I used some duck tape, but have since packed some wire nuts/wago connectors and electrical tape in my toolbox.
Great tips.. thank you
I had always been dropping the nose down below level before Auto Level. I learned something new today, I’ll try and start at hitch height. Thank you
Do you drop the rear legs all the way down before starting or leave them some room to extend?
Great content as always
I was surprised to see my auto level lift the tires off the ground
Of course I panicked lol.
You are great. I love your explanations
Thank you!
Very good nice way to explain it good video.
I have the lippert electric and it hasn't worked correctly since it was new. Will try autoleveling itself after I put it almost level and it keep making these micro adjustments. Will never stop trying to adjust even when it's level. Have calibrated it once but maybe I should try again. I just do it manually now.
Lol. They can be a real PIA. Mine is a lippert hydraulic and was constantly off to the left side and rear parked on the driveway. Reading that the click, click, click noise was due to stiction, I removed and added the proper amount of recommend oil and it solved the off level issue and the clicking.
Very informative from a first timer
We have the Bigfoot system on ours and while it’s better than our previous 5er it still needs to be fine tuned after it says it’s level. That said it sure is nicer than our mechanical jacks from years ago.
Thank you
Hi Jared, we’ve had our fifth wheel for about a year and a half, and you are the first one I have seen put out a video to pre-extend your front leveling jacks! We just figured that out about a month ago, we went through a lot of aggravation, hopefully someone else will see this video and have an easier time.
Thank you
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Good tips. Have you done a video on the added stabilization you have added? Looks like you have some bracing bars in the front. We have 2 kids and even with the levelers down in can still get bouncy when they are moving around.
Hey Jared, We love your channel. We're old to rving but new to auto level. Just got a 2023 Jayco with LCI 3.0 four point electric leveling. The auto level function works perfect and my 4' level confirms it.
Our problem is the Hitch Height function. When HH is engaged the rear jacks retract as expected and then the landing gear starts moving. That's when it goes berserk! The right gear extends as expected, but the left gear retracts!!! When all the weight is on the right gear it causes an excessive slope code and shuts down the system.
Any suggestion?
Thanks so much for video! The part about letting out a little of the front jack first if nose up. You're saying to manually extend them a little using the control panel while still hitched?
Great video. Where is your spare tire for your rig?
Maybe a good thing to remember leave power to truck connected till all is level yes unhook Rv but leave power on truck you will have less drain on batteries
No “How’s it going?” That’s my favorite part 😀
It looks like I need to see about calibrating my auto leveling system.
It currently leaves the right side of my rig .5° too low.
I find using the info tab on the lippert screen inside the compartment works really well for pulling up to a site to check left and right level. I’ve learned if its 1.5 degrees or more to one side I’ll use those orange blocks to drive on as each block removes about 1 degree of slope preventing wheels for coming off the ground.
Good tip!
Came here to say the same thing! I wish the OneControl iPhone app was more reliable and I didn’t get to get out of the truck, but the Leveler function almost never works on it - especially when connected to the truck. The OneControl touch screen works consistently, though.
@@shawnberg868 interesting you say that the app has been nothing but reliable in my experience!
@@justintownsend7400 my app works great for everything else, but I’ve tried the leveler function probably 20 times and it’s only worked once. Once you tap Leveler in the app and it goes to the new screen there’s just nothing there.
Great tips. Question, I’m about to purchase a system for my Cougar 333 MKS. Should I get a 4 or 6 leveler system? Thanks!
Just purchased 2022 reflection 303 rls with auto leveling which is nice but when auto leveling is complete and I check with a carpenter level, it always shows the front needs to be raised. Should I try to recalibrate and/or is there anything wrong with manually raising the front? Thanks for all of your videos as they are informative and helpful!!
Love you videos. Would love to know more about the truck you picked. We are going to be looking for RV and Truck
I was thinking of doing an update on our experience with the truck. Overall we have been very happy with it.
@@AllAboutRVs Yes, we are moving back to US from the Netherlands. We hear getting a Truck is hard. Also seems hard to get information on Trucks people have and why? Love to know how you picked yours.
How far did you let the front Jack's down before you let the rest
For the front jacks, isn't it supp to be 6 holes max showing
Amen! Keep those wheels touching the ground! Frankly I find it scary with the wheels in the air, I cringe every time I see that! Great video, it should help everyone with auto leveling. Very important to leave the slides and stairs in.
How do we know if we overextend the legs? Our front legs need to come down quite a bit when parked in our sloped driveway and we’re not sure how much is too much. We have a 2023 Jayco 330RSTS.
how does someone not mess around with your mini touchpad on the outside? all they have to do is hit the up/down at same time and they can control it?
Our auto level shows COMM for rear stabilizers only. Currently lowering with a drill. Any ideas how I might proceed
When trying to connect our battery to the camper the auto leveling automatically starts retracting. Nothing lights up on the leveling panel when the battery is touched, so it's like it is by passing the level system . Help!!
Also ensure solid steps (the ones you pull down out of door frame from inside RV) are NOT put down, until leveling is complete or at least swing the screen and outside entry door all the way open if the steps must be down, else leveling via manual or auto-leveling could possibly warp door hinges and put pressure on door frame. Ask how I know as a first time 5th wheel owner I learned this the hard way. No one told me. Not one video. So yeah. Also the RV was bought used, and did not come with a manual for the Lippert Solid steps. Fortunately if there is damage it is slight as the door just makes a ton of noise when opening and closing. The hinges seem to have too much friction. Also closing the door on a warm day can be somewhat difficult as the door does not latch unless using two hands; one to keep the handle open and another pull the door tight against the door frame before releasing the handle to engage the door latch. It's workable, but I think I may have caused the issue with auto-leveling with steps down and door open. Live and learn I guess.
I don't have an eye for that. I can't hang a picture frame...lol!
Ours never level right. The back is always to high. Then I manually level it but the middle stabilizer comes up and I can't seem to find out how to move the middle one. Only the front and back. Anyone know how to move it?
How do you go about re calibrating? We have exact same level system and we are nose down a little. Have to give it a small pop upafter it’s “level”
It’s not very intuitive and a little strange but on the screen or in the compass One Control app open the leveler under leveling. You see a page where it says leveler on the upper right and the battery voltage under it . Tap the title “leveler” 5 times and it enters advance features so you can level it and zero it out. It’s odd but works.
Auto level was one must-have feature when we were looking at buying our next RV. Ours has worked great, but there was a learning curve to using it correctly. Right now I am getting a low-voltage error from time to time (with a fully charged battery) when trying to auto-level on less even ground. It seems to happen when the leveler is operating both front legs at the same time for 15 seconds or so while raising the front end. I installed the energy monitor with 100 amp shunt that you covered in another of your videos. Looking at the Grand Design specs for the leveler, they note that the leveler can use up to 90 amps of power so I think that the shunt might be limiting the current flow? I am going to wire in a by-pass with switch so I can "disconnect" the shunt when leveling. Just curious if you have any thoughts on this. Really enjoy your videos!
I would try and see what is happening to the battery voltage when the jacks are auto leveling drawing the most amps. What I would look to see is at times the draw is causing the voltage to drop low enough to trigger the low voltage. Having a bigger battery bank ( 2 batteries) would probably stop that from happening.
@@AllAboutRVs Thanks, that's a good idea, maybe my battery is just getting old. I had a brain-wave idea to use the energy monitor to see how many amps the leveler is using and will keep an eye on battery voltage at the same time. I will check this out before adding a by-pass to the shunt. I have two batteries with a 1,1-2,2 switch that would let me use both batteries at the same time, so I can try that too.
Thanks for the video. 🤚 Question: how did you calibrate your system? I’m having the same experience with our new Momentum. Thanks!
It’s not very intuitive and a little strange but on the screen or in the compass One Control app open the leveler under leveling. You see a page where it says leveler on the upper right and the battery voltage under it . Tap the title “leveler” 5 times and it enters advance features so you can level it and zero it out. It’s odd but works.
@@AllAboutRVs Thank you for the info... that does seems strange. 😉 I'll try it out!
YUP! I hate auto level! I’m so much faster with just leveling with Anderson’s side to side then unhook and bring the front up or down and done...
So, you level up with the slides in and put them out. Then, you find the door binds and difficult to latch. Do you relevel it with the slides out a second time?
We haven’t had an issue with things being off or doors binding in any of our RVs doing it this way. We only level it once with the slides in.
@@AllAboutRVs We very often do have a door binding issue. Sometimes more than others. What is your opinion about trying to relevel the trailer after putting the 3 slides out? Other suggestions? Thank you!
@@jayjohnson122 Did you try adjusting the stairs to unbind the door
@@sgtwrench69 Yes, if the stair legs were out too far and it raised the threshold at the hinge, it would not allow the door to close. However, our bind is at the door latch rather than the bottom of the door. I do appreciate the suggestion, as we did experience that once. Our ongoing door binding is not caused at the stairs though.
@@jayjohnson122 ok
How’s this video helpful? It’s not.