DOZENS of Van Mods you can do!

The video you're about to see is a tour of over two dozen modifications made to a Winnebago Travato 59GL by the owner. Roger walks us through why he did the modifications, how he did it in many cases, and stay to the end because we show you how to get the list of over 50 modifications and the resources put together by Roger and Jane, owners of the Discovery. My name is Scott. Welcome to my YouTube channel, Go Small Live Large, all about the camper van travel experience. Enjoy this video. These are some really interesting modifications. You're not going to want to miss a single one of these. We're going to jump inside in a few minutes, but first we're doing around the outside. Roger, Jane's off camera, and just thank you again for sharing your van with us today. And what are we standing in front of? What is this van? She is a 2021 Travato GL, Winnebago Travato GL. She's on a 2021 ProMaster chassis. So she's the last of the old floor plans, let's say, it would be nice. And what's striking to me right away is it's white, which is really kind of an unusual color. Was that by design or just by accident? No, we actually ordered it and we ordered the white. I like the look of the white, but primarily I wanted to reflect as much of the energy as possible from the sun, so it reflects as much as you can from the sun. Which keeps it cooler. Yeah, that's the hope. So you ordered this, where did you buy this from? We bought it from Winnebago Motorhomes in Rockford, Illinois. Mick and the team, they're fantastic, highly recommended. Roger, would you mind showing us around the van on the outside first? So the first thing we got to notice right away is the Discovery decal. What's the story on that? Well, like I say, we named her Discovery, and I'm an aerospace nerd. I love space, love flying, I'm a pilot, I fly just for fun. So we named her Discovery after the workhorse of the space shuttle fleet, and also Discovery Exploration, that's kind of her mission for us, so it all fit in really well, and she's black and white like the Discovery Space Shuttle. It's so great. And so yours was the last year they had the two speakers, right? Yes, yes, 2021. When it came to 2022, they did away with the speakers, the outside speakers. I use mine all the time, I love those. Yep, those are nice to have. These are, what are we looking at here? You have the outside 110. And then you have, if you want to put a TV out here, you can actually connect the TV there and plug it into the 12 volt, or anything else in the 12 volt. You can have external solar that you can plug into the side here, and this is your black tank flush. Black tank flush. And let me just kind of back up so everyone gets a little view of the van here. So again, it's very distinctive by being white, but it's also, it's got different tires and wheels, and it looks like it's been lifted, and maybe just talk to us a little bit about that. So anyway, Vans did the lift for us, and they also put on their ride control, they call it a ride control suspension system, which really is the Bilstein shocks. Hard to see there, but let me show you this real quick. Yeah, this is, that's the big yellow thing. Boy, that is, that's sexy, let me tell you. Yeah, they look good. But they also, they really control the, especially like you feel the compression and rebound. It's just, they're much heavier, they have much more control. These things are heavy. Yeah, right. So they're good. The tires are the Michelin Algeus Cross Climates. These are the C-metrics. We've got, we've got the, which are directional, you can see that they are the directional tread. Yeah. So they are, they're kind of a cross between a, you know, a little bit of an off-road, but really good on-road, and they have a real good, you can see they got a really beefy sidewall, which is what I really liked. Absolutely. Roger, what is this thing? That is, we have a tire pressure monitoring system set up. So you can look at that when we go inside. Yeah, for sure. This is the sensor for that. They just screw right on to the, to each one of the tires. Okay. It has an awning. Yep. Just like mine. Power awning, yes. Power awning. So you've got the nice wide running board. Yeah, that's, yeah, the, the, what's that, 20, the 20, 20 and a halfs and up have that. Is it? Okay. I just love the white. So I'm seeing a brush guard here. What's the story? And lights, very jealous. What's the story on the brush guard? We've got a brush guard. We also got it at Off-Highway Vans. They put it on for us. We were fortunate enough that we had one. My wife wasn't real thrilled that they had one, but we got it and put it on while we were there. So that was really nice. And then this spring I put the, I had the lights on. They're just Vision X off-road lights. Just give a little more illumination if you're going someplace. Right. Yeah. If you're off on some, you know, when you get off on some of these side roads or, you know, at night when it's dark. Yeah. Just to give some illumination. Well, that's, yeah, that's the other side of it. It's kind of like the brush guard. The brush guard has some, you know, some functionality to it, but it really is. It looks cool. Yeah. It looks cool. To me anyway. Yeah. I know. I'm totally with you. Yeah. We opted for, you can see we opted to not get the painted and just left the, uh, the stainless steel. So that's what we did. We opted for the stainless steel. Yeah. It looks cool. Yeah. It looks good. Yeah. We opted for, you can see we opted to not get the painted and just left the, uh, the stainless steel. So that's what we did. Yeah. It looks cool. Yeah. We opted for, you can see we opted to not get the painted and just left the, uh, the standard, the standard black, you know, plastic. Which gives it kind of a rugged look, right? It gives a little bit of a rugged look. And the other thing is you don't have paint chips and that going on. Yeah. This is just a plastic. So when things hit it, you're not getting many paint chips or anything. So it's really more durable than if you were painted it. And if you get the full body paint, you actually pay a couple of grand to have this painted white in this case. Right. It would have matched. So help us understand this a little bit. So you've got, we've got our two water hookups. So the bottom one is the, uh, the water hookup. to the water system, you know, and not use your tank or your pump. So like pressurized city water goes there. Exactly. And then the top one is your fill for the tank. So we fill our tank. We always fill the tank up and we run off the, uh. Of the pump. So you can hear it running. Of the pump and the tank and all that stuff. Yeah. Roger being the engineer, what is, the technician, what is that? Yeah, that's just a water pressure regulator, so it drops the water pressure to like 40, 45 PSI, because some of these parks they'll have, they can have up to 100 PSI, because they're trying to disperse water over a whole big area. Acres. Yeah, so you never know what you're gonna get, so that just keeps from blowing your water lines apart when you hook up, so you always have those. I also use it on the Blackwater Flush, you know, just to make sure you're not gonna blow something out, you know, it's a safety thing. All right. And then you can see over back here, you know, while we're here, you can see the Travato comes with a nice hose, it plugs in here, both hot, cold water, so you can hose off whatever, your feet, your dog, your bicycle, whatever you wanna do. Cool down Jane if she's a little hot. Right, water pump, get a water pump back here, and you got, these are lights, you got a light up top, and then this is the dump light on the side. Okay. You know, so. And what was this one again? Oh, this is for up top. That's just the light, yeah, the light up top up there, so that you can see what you're doing. It is nice when it's dark, it's nice to have with a dump light. Yeah, totally agree with you. You know, if you're doing this in the dark, it's really nice to be able to light up both sides. Totally agree with you. And this little doohickey here, this is, what is this? Well, I put that strap on here, cause when you're in bed, if you ever needed to give an emergency exit, you got a back, you can't really reach this. It's really hard. Yeah, so with this here, all you gotta do is reach, you can reach, easily reach this and then just pull on it. Got it. And boom, you can pull, you know. I need to do that. You can get out, wait, and you can see, it's extremely easy to just put a strap on here. Are you saying even I could do this? Yes. This hole's already here, you know, you just pop this out and you can reach back there. And all they do is put a big washer behind it and put a bolt on it. I can probably manage this. Now, is this an aftermarket or is this a came with? This is a man-made gear, makes these. And we have them for the, we have them slammed for here and it'll stick on with magnets. Magnets, yeah. And the other nice thing is you can, if you want to just put them up some, you can, you know. That's cool. You can put them up a little bit. A little bit of insulation, looks like some thermal break. A little bit of insulation and they fit really nice. We leave them in, the back ones in, we just leave them in all the time. I never take them, basically hardly ever take them out. Yeah. Yeah, because again, with the rear view mirror. Yeah, it's super neat. You know, it works really well. So yeah, so we have those and we have them for the cab as well. And we really like them. They really seem to do a good job of blocking the heat. The temps and the heat and the light. Very good. And I like as long as I was back here. And then as far as we go, this was, this was a Scott idea, you know, to put this back here and it works really well. You put it just as it is, as your, you know, mat. The door mat. Door mat to trim off. And when you put stuff back here, everything stays where it belongs. Yeah, it's pretty amazing, right? Super simple. Don't slide around. And then I always keep this here. So if I do put something back here, I want to make sure it doesn't go anywhere. I can just attach that, you know, just attach a bungee to it as well. So you just put water or whatever back here. So organized. You still have your original bag. Yeah. Well, we, we originally were going to take that off, but we found that we like to put our, our laptops and things like that go in there really nice. So that's where we store. We just put our laptops in there, you know, iPad, you know, things, things, thin things like that. It's really, really handy to put there. They're easy to get in and out and they're out of the way. Wow. We like that. Of course, the chairs, you know, have to have chairs. So organized, you know, so clean. It's just so great. You know, one thing that is just so striking about your van is the interior color. This was not available when I had my choice and I really love this. What do they call it? Walnut? Walnut. Yeah, they call it Walnut. And it's just so beautiful. And the contrast with the white floor, you'll see inside when we get in there, but it's just a really, a lovely color combination. It's just, just exceptional. Thanks. We like it. We, we originally were thinking light colors, a small space, a light color, but we saw one that had this in it and really liked it. And we really, and we still, and now having it, we like it a lot. It's just rich. It doesn't seem to really close it down like I think it would. And it contrasts, like I said, it contrasts nice with the light colors and the light van. So great. Should we jump around the other side and into the sliding patio door? Let's do it. All right, let's jump inside, Roger. And he's got some really cool modifications in here that I think you're going to really be interested in. So picture of Discovery. Discovery and Orbit, have to have Discovery and Orbit. I know, right? Had to have Discovery and Orbit. So this is the roll-off magnetic screen that people love or hate. What's your? We love it. You love it, okay. I'm going to do it really quick because it only takes a second. We love this thing. I think it works really well. And this came with, or this? This came, this is now standard equipment, more standard equipment in 2021. I'm not sure if it still is or not. What we really like about it is now that you're all closed, bugs can't get in. Right. Boom, we just open this up. Oh, yeah. Snaps right shut again, usually. There it goes. There you go. That's super nice. So it does save, I'd say a few inches here for mine that has the pull across. I think you're gathered a few more inches. Gained, that's a better, yeah, for sure. For sure. You do have to deploy it like that, you know, when you're going to use it, but it's really easy. And I said, especially this, the going in and out is so nice. You know, just be able to climb in and out. It's just so quick to put up and down. Now, do you guys have pets that travel with you? We do not. We have a dog, but our dog is much happier at home. He's a, he loves to, he loves to travel. You know, he loves to go on hikes and things like that. But he's so, he's just, he's a nervous, he's just so nervous, he just worries all the time. Yeah, and that's not fun for him, probably. No, exactly. So he's much happier at home. So he stays with my son or somebody. And the reason I ask is, is this screen sturdy enough so they... No. I would not, personally, I would not trust it. I would build something and put here. Like a little gate or something. Because you can see how easy it is. This is just magnetic. For sure. It wouldn't take them too long to figure out, if I push that a little bit, it's gonna open. Yeah, okay. Let's turn some lights on. And again, this is the 59G, meaning floor plan, and L, he's got a Volta system. We'll talk about that in a second. This was the last year that they made this. So 2022 forward, they have a very different, great room, as I call it. The cab seats spin around, right? Yes. And we won't do that, we kind of know what that looks like. But let's start with, I don't know, just, you got all sorts of lights, these lights. What the heck are these things? So we... Somehow, outer space. Yeah, so yeah, they look cool. So we swapped them. You used to have, you know, just the same as these, like the same as everywhere else. And they're really bright at night. If you're sitting here, if you're gonna watch TV, or even just doing, you know, looking on your, work on your computer or whatever, they're just really bright. And these are bright on now. But what I like about it is, is you can dim them down. So you can get, you know, we're okay, now they're not so bright. And you can do them individually. So I can tap one off, leave the other one on if you want. If you tap it once, it comes on this nice, like a nightlight kind of thing, if you want it that way. So we really like those and the control. And if you turn them, you can use your switch, you can do it that way. But if you use your switch, then every time they come on, they come on bright. That's the only thing that doesn't matter. You can do it either way. Okay. So kind of a standard setup. So the, this can collapse into a bed, about a four by six bed. Now it looks like you've gained a few inches here on this, in between the seats. What's the deal with the table? Did you guys remove some inches or how's that work? Yeah, I cut, I cut three inches off of the edge here. Okay. You know, just on this end, took the brackets off, just cut it off and then put the brackets back on again. Super easy. You can't, or you can, if I didn't tell you, you would never notice. Yeah. You would never, ever know. Most people would know. But what that does is it just makes it much, it makes it easier to walk through here. Now with like you and I, our legs are fairly long, so we don't go to, but like my wife, who's only 5'1", you know, it's hitting her up higher, so it's harder, but it's just much easier to walk in between. And we don't notice the difference, you know, this swings out, which is great. So you can still, somebody can sit here and eat just fine. Right, right. And we do, we do it all the time. You know, Jane, when we eat a lot of times, like we, like lunch or breakfast, usually, you know, Jane sits here, I'll sit on the, on here. At night, a lot of time, we got the, we're turned, we're spun around and then, then I'll sit here. But Jane usually likes to sit, you know, she usually likes to sit on the seat here. So it works, it works great. This is something you never see in my van, cause I have a rug here, but the Trottos come with this little hidden storage lockable locker, right? Yep. Which is cool. Do you use yours? Yes. Yeah. It's handy. In fact, our- Is this where your gold and silver store? Yeah, right. Exactly, exactly. Yeah, yeah. All the jewels are down there. I wish, I wish. We actually have things like all the, the, the, all the packet of information, you know, the books and all that stuff. Oh, that's a good idea. We keep those down there. We got a big first aid kit that's down there. So accessible, but out of the way. Right, right, exactly. So things like that. And you can see, if you look at this, the reason I took three inches off of here and not anymore, because three inches takes the leg to the edge here. So I can still open this with the table. If you take any more off, then the leg is going to be on there and it's going to cause the issue. So that, that's why I came up with the three inches. That is so cool. Smart guy. It takes a technician. I would cut and then measure. That's the way I do it. So your setup up here is pretty similar to mine. Let's kind of move to the back, but let's look at this real fast. This is cool. How many of you have hit your switches on or off by accident? I do it fairly regularly. So what is this little guard? Yeah, and they're just 3D printed covers again, that just guards so they can see if you bang something into it, you're not hitting the switches. And I've seen people with pets do this a lot. So the dog will be wagging the tail and all of a sudden the awning lights are on or something crazy. You can carry stuff in your bag. There's all kinds of things. So it's just handy. It doesn't, you can see it doesn't stop. Now the other thing that we did as long as we're down here is I put in a switch for the awning. So it's a lighted switch. So it actually, when it's off, the awning is disabled. And the Bluetooth module, this actually comes standard with the awning, actually has a wire lead on it that's specifically for that. But Winnebago likes not to use that. They just tie it directly to a 12 volt source. So what I did was put a switch in between that 12 volt source. And when you take 12 volts away, it disables the awning. So the idea is some, there's been some that have had the issues with the awning deploying when I don't want it to. Like automatically going down the road. Yeah, yeah. So this in theory would kill that because it disables the awning. So I want to use the awning, I turn that on, then I use the awning like normal. And it's lighted so I remember it's on and then I turn it off and it kills it. So smart. And this is for the lights on the Rhyme Board, correct? Yep, yep. Get the Rhyme Board lights. That's like mine. Yep, exactly. Same as yours. And then the awning, you got the awning in and out, of course, and then you got the lights on the awning. Which is a nice thing. Oh, this is cool. The lights on the awning still work. Even with the awning switch off, the lights still work. That's clever. You can see that folks? Yeah, and you can actually dim those, which is really nice using the app on the phone. Oh, that's cool. And what's different than mine, you have to actually deploy the awning a little bit to get the lights to work. This is nice. This is super nice. You can dim them and you get just a little bit of. Mood lighting. Yeah, exactly, without having bright lights on. That is so great. I like it a lot. All right, so let's move to the galley, because that's just one of the greatest things about this floor plan, is this ginormous NovaCool fridge. Are you guys wearing clothes or other things in your wardrobe? This is our food. Our wardrobe holds food. I'm the weird one. This is great. So did you add the shelves or does that come standard now? I added the shelves. You added the shelves? Yeah, I understand now they come with the option. Yeah, but no, I added the shelves in there. I love your trash. I'm so in need of a trash can upgrade. I know, we like this one. Yeah, tell somebody a trash can. This is different. I've had mine literally since day one and I'm shopping for a new one. Fits in the space, which is kind of useless space, right? Yeah, no, that's great, because it just hides there. It doesn't go anywhere. It's got little rubber feet on it. It doesn't go anywhere, because it makes it easy. You can open it up if you want. Don't use it on a foot. You don't want to use the foot thing. Oh, yeah. So a towel rack just kind of fits over the top here. Super great. Yeah, well, we got this from Ikea, if anybody's looking. Ikea, okay. I think that came from Ikea. All right. And standard microwave. And this is the ceiling fan. Do you have a cover over it? Yeah, yeah. That was another one that came from Bandman Gear. Cover just sticks up there with magnets, but nice thing is you just do that. But it helps. It really blocks the heat and it blocks the light if you don't want that. And yours is so clean. Mine is so dirty. It's kind of gross. We like the white, because it just matches with the ceiling. Yeah, for sure. All right, so looking at the galley, there's some big differences here. I'm seeing a ginormous sink and faucet. So there's some modification there. Tell us about that. And then what is this thing? You still have a propane underneath it, right? Yep. Oh, yeah. So tell us about those things. That's pretty cool. Okay, well, let's start with the sink. You know, it has the, they come with a fold-down marine sink where the faucet folds inside, and then the cover folds over. It makes a nice, it does make a nice service area to work on and do things if you want to. But we found it was in the way for us most of the time. We tried it for a while and just didn't like it. You know, we found we were always having to put it up and down and do everything. And then when you put it up, it blocks off all the stuff behind. And the faucet's kind of small and to get stuff on it. We just didn't like it. You know, like I said, some love it. That's great. But for us, it didn't work. So this, so I got the, this is the bar sink. You know, I got it off on line. It's the same exact, you know, it fits the same hole as the existing, took the old sink out. It looks deeper though. It is like an inch deeper as I look. It looks much bigger. It does. But it's only an inch. It's the same diameter and only an inch deeper. But it looks huge, you know. But you just take out that, you know, the faucet and all that stuff. So it's really nice. It's nice and big. Okay. And then, and the only real thing I did to it, you know, took the old one out and I made some shims to just, you know, just hold it in place, you know, so it wouldn't move side to side. And just sealed it down with some adhesive caulk. Okay. Clear adhesive caulk and then it's, you put weight on it and it just, it's good. And with the shims, it can't move anyway. And of course it's not gonna pop up. So it's held, it's held strong. I didn't even have to really modify the, didn't have to modify the drain at all. Because it's already offset. That's right. That worked well. This is a, this just came from, I think it was Home Depot, you know, but anyone else has a regular, you know, faucet for your kitchen. You know, it does have the pull down, which is nice. It has the sprayer, which is nice, but. And you did have to drill a hole. I did have to drill a hole in that and just, and hook that up. That's okay. But yeah, that was, that was not a big deal. And I'm, well, yeah, tell us about this. So this is just one of those, it's a thin. Like a silicone net. Yeah, right. And you know, and it just helps, it does a couple of things. One, it just kind of helps protect this. Look how clean that is. Yeah. And that's, that's, that's the big thing on it is. Yeah. If you have one of these, you know, everything that you spill, you know, white over dry, ends up in here, you know. This is a given. Especially right in here. Yeah, it's just a given. And this, this just makes it nice. So you got this here. So whatever it gets, you get anything wet or, or whatever, it just falls on here. It makes it much easier to keep it clean and it protects the glass. Yeah. And when you, you know, when you want to use a stove, you just, you know, roll this up and stick it somewhere. Yeah. So you have a counter extension. You have an usual countertop, but solid white, which is kind of pretty. Yeah, that's, and that's, that was the, the standard, the option, you know. Yeah. You can steal any color you want as long as it was pure white. There was no option on that one. So what's missing is the basket here. So you could put a paper towel holder. That's pretty cool. Yeah, so I did that. The nice thing about this paper towel holder is a ratchet. Oh, so it doesn't. So it doesn't have as much of a tendency. It does once in a while, but not much of a tendency to unroll itself while you're driving. And you've taken good advantage of this space here. That is a really nice space. Yeah. As you can see, you know, we use our stove. Yeah, well, I do the same thing. Mine is very well used. A lot of mods. Pretty cool. A few more little things back here that Roger wants to show us. That's really simple, really inexpensive, but super functional. I love these kind of tips. Wait till you see this. Okay, so what we're looking at, this is the Murphy bed. We know what this looks like. You've put a basket here. Is this standard now? That was standard. Standard, okay. These are great. It's great to put stuff, you know. Right, okay. So that's handy. As long as you're not having to get out of bed to get to it. That's kind of cool. Right, right. You've got your basket here. But what we want to show the folks is what's back here. Let me see if I can zoom in here for you. So what we've got going here is some extra things here. So a couple of things I did. I added a 12-volt outlet back here and put the USB, you know, double USB in here so we can plug our phones in here at night. And then, you know, Jane puts her phone in the little, there's a little pocket down there where she can stick her phone or book and stuff in. And I've got a magnet, you know, just metal on the back of mine that I just stick it to the magnet and it can just stick there at night, you know, so out of the way. And then the other thing we also like to read for when we go to bed, so we have our glasses. So we, so I bought these little glass, you know, just little things. You just, they just pop down and you can stick your glasses, you know, your glasses in there. You know where they are at a moment's notice. Right, right. They're out of the way and you don't have to get up and shove them somewhere. You can, when you're done reading or whatever, it gets popped up there, turn the lights off and go to bed. That is so great. Go to sleep. And this is the Luke shelf. Yep, we use that a lot, you know. Yeah, right. And your drawer. Yep, that's the junk drawer for us. Junk drawer. And this is, again, very different from the current 2022 plus floor plan. So we have extra storage that is not available. And this is tons of storage down here, right? Yeah, yeah. And what, the one thing about the GLs today is, you know, the electronics on this one are all in that jump seat. Right, which is this thing right here. Or water, if you don't have a voltage system. You have the water, but in here it's the jump seat. So we move all of that. All electronics, all electronics then are under here. So you're losing a lot of this space. Right. You know, and this is real handy space to put stuff. Completely agree with you. Yeah, just, there's a lot of stuff in here that we can put in there. Completely agree. Out of the way. And we use this, this is all our, we use this for clothes. Yeah. You know, because there's two of us. Yeah. So that's our, this is my closet. This is Jane's closet. This is her closet. Where's the liquor cabinet? That's my question. The liquor stuff ends up going in there. In here. This is where all our food goes, you know? So that's where, we looked at that earlier, but that's, so that's where all that stuff goes. Yeah, these are good to deal with to pull out. That makes it easy just to be able to, you know, put your stuff in there. So you don't have to dig way back. Right. That's so great. Makes it handy. One more thing, Roger. So you might've been, we talked about the sink earlier, and with no cover, it's kind of useless space. So how'd you guys solve that problem? Yeah, so we just bought, again, bought this offline, and I just put, I put feet on the bottom of it that are the right distance for the, you know, for inside of the sink. So I put it on there, it fits, and then it doesn't move. So the cover, a cutting board, adds to the space, functionality of the sink. It's not nice and flat like the original is, but still, it does cover this up, so if you want space to happen, of course, this'll slide out of the way. Right, right. That's so smart. It does that, and actually rides, we keep it right where it was. We just leave it there, and it really hasn't been in the way because we just, you know, if we're eating or doing stuff or whatever there, we just use it as part of the table. It becomes a cheese board if you're doing cheese and crumpets. Exactly, you can use it for anything like that. Like I said, it's a great cutting board or whatever you want to use it for. We find it really handy like that. That is so great. Okay. The other thing I can show real quick is I like having, this is the control for the max fan, the max air fan. I like having it here because I can reach it from my seat, you know, driver's seat, if I want to turn or do anything with the fan from my driver's seat, but at night, you like to have it by the bed. For sure. Again, I put a piece of metal on here, and you can just stick it, I got two magnets up here. I can just stick it to one of those. So I got one for my phone, one for that. Then it's right, if I want it, I grab it and turn the fan on and off or up or down. So smart. So this is a cool modification that most anybody, even me can do. We have to close the door, but any of you with van patio sliding doors, you know what a problem it is to slam the door shut. Roger's got a really cool remedy here. Watch this. So what we did is we put just a regular pull handle. So when you close the door, you just grab that and pull. And all of that, that's from, I think it was Home Depot. It's just a drawer pull is all it is. And if you take this panel off, you have access to the back back here. And that just screws in with a little. Yeah, I just made a template and put it in a screw. I did put some big washers on the back in order to support the metal. And what's the, why is that? Because you're just throwing this thing forward. And the real trick is the geometry getting around this curve, right? And then you pull it and you're not slamming your door then. Right, right. If you look at the way the door shuts, it's sliding until it gets to about here. And now it's actually coming in. So now what you're doing is you're actually helping it come in by just pulling it. And you can see I don't, instead of having to, otherwise you're doing this. All the time. And even then you gotta look at half the time it's not closed all the way. Which probably puts so much stress on this window. I'm just amazed they don't fall out. But this is a genius move. Cost you what, about two hours and 20 bucks, I thought. I think it was less than that. I think I think. $10? I think it was a six or $7 handle. There wasn't much. It's just, so far after a year and a half it's holding up just fine. Yeah, that is really smart. So watch this. So we saw about pulling the handle from the inside, but from the outside it's kind of the same thing. You're slamming this thing forward, but where the pressure point's right here, right? Cause it's coming around this curve to go in to the van body. So maybe just show us that one more time. Yeah, so if you actually push on it back here, you'll notice I don't have to slam the door very hard. And it shuts really different, right? Which is less wear and tear on the handle, certainly on this rail system, and the window. So I'm gonna start doing that right away. That's a genius. I think it works really well. Cost free. Yeah, yeah. Simplistic solution to make that a little easier. So let's just take a minute and talk about the Volta system. Why you chose that? What, do you have the, well, why did you choose it, number one? And how's it enable your RVing? We love the Volta system. I'd spoil the hell out of this. I wouldn't be without it. Yeah, Volta's great. It allows you to have full 30 amp power wherever you are, sitting here. We could be running the air conditioner, running a microwave at the same time. In silence. And yes, yes. With no generator running, no anything else. And it'll run it all afternoon, or all night, pretty much. We love it. It's got, what, 9,600 watts, and this one, I think, is a little more than what you had. That's right. We upped it a little bit. That's right. Today, you can get a four pack. This has a three pack. You can actually get a four pack on it, which I can't remember. It was 11,000 something. It's a 13. It will be about 13. It's quite large, anyway. It's quite large. If that was available and we ordered this one, we'd have ordered it. Yeah, me too. I would have done it. But we haven't really run into any issues that being said, either, with what we have. But we just love it. It's total freedom. You know, we've gone to, you know, we tend to stay away from campgrounds a lot, and go park, you know, go, we like Hull of Harvest Hosts, and Boondockers Welcome, things like that. So we tend to stay away. But even sometimes, we do park in a, in fact, this last trip we were on, and we went to a, because I needed to dump tanks, and it's handy to do that, you know, stay the night. I never even plugged in. Yeah, isn't that great? I mean, it plugs right there, but it's like, I didn't, it was kind of rainy, and that, I don't need it. Don't need it. No, I have all the power I need, in the back of this thing. We just absolutely, absolutely love it. Yeah, it's so great. You had some cool things. We talked about the tire pressure monitoring system. Maybe show us what's going on up front. Sure, sure, yeah. Show us, there's some cool gadgets here. What's going on here? Well, this is a tire minder. It's a tire monitoring, tire pressure and temperature monitoring system. And we talked about earlier, you know, the little, just the little sensors that screw right onto the airport on the tire. And what I like about it is, is it gives you, you know, your current, you know, pressures and temperatures, you know, of your tires all the time. And it also monitors. It monitors for, you know, slow leaks, for fast leaks, for pressure, and for high temperature, you know, low pressure. It's monitoring this all the time, and if anything were to happen, it would beep. So hopefully, the idea is, if you hit a nail or something, you can know right away, this is gonna come out and tell you, hey, you've got a slow leak going on. Before it gets down to the point, you know, where you're at a little higher pressure, you're gonna know about it right away to give you a chance to go someplace and do something about it before it becomes a big issue. And what's this little dude? And that's a, like, that's a Scangage 2, they call it. It actually, it's a, it plugs into the ODB2 port, which is right here, you know, which is a, which is a computer port, you know, for the engine. So it, so it monitors things. What I like about it is, I can monitor the actual water temperature, you know, exactly what it is. You know, the water, water temperature gauge on these things is a glorified idiot light. You never, you notice it never moves. It never does. It's like, when it moves, you're, when it finally jumps to being hot, you're really hot now, you know. With this, I can tell, I know exactly what the water temperature is, I know what the oil temperature is, I know what the transmission temperature is all the time. So I know I can watch it as I'm climbing hills. I can watch them all go up, you know, as the engine's working hard. And I know if I'm pushing, you know, pushing her too hard or whatever. What's this little dude here? Oh, that's a, that's a dash cam. Oh, okay. So anytime the- Oh, I see the camera faces forward. Exactly, yeah, that's a screen, but which is most of the time it's blank, you know, but it, so anytime that the ignition's on, it's recording. So a couple of things nice about that, if you're driving in a really neat area, you know, you know, through Arches National Park or wherever, you can pull that, you just got a card, you pull the card out, it can transfer it to your computer and you get a really nice video off of that. And of course, the other thing is if anything bad happens, you've got a video record of it, you know? So it's those two functions. And this came standard in the, this is a new rear view mirror. So- It's a 2021's Toymaster chassis has had that. So when this is on, it acts like a rear view mirror, except you can see everything, instead of trying to get out and see through the back of the van, which is really troublesome, to say the least. Here, Roger's gonna start the chassis, I think. If I just turned it on. Oh yeah. So you can see, it's just like looking, it's like looking in a rear view without having all the stuff behind you. All the stuff behind you. So again, cause you know, even with the window shades out, it's pretty minimal at best. Right. And this here, I got a whole view back there. So I know exactly what's going on behind me. It's really nice. Which is really an improvement of what I have, which is this little backup screen here. And we have, we still have that. And you still have that. Yeah. Oh yeah. And you need that, cause this is, this is a, this makes- Rear view. But this is really a rear view mirror. This is the backup. This works better for that. Interesting. But you can flip the thing off and now you're looking at what's behind you. Oh. So I can, so I can see, you know. That's cool. Hi, what's up? Yeah. So now here we can see your tire gauge, whoops, on, which is pretty cool. Right. And the scan gauge will come on when, when you- Yeah, there you go. Just start the engine. Right. Right with that. So, very cool. And the nice thing about the scan gauge too, it's also, it's also a trip computer as well. Oh cool. And it will tell you all the things, you know, like your miles per gallon, how many miles you have left, all that kind of stuff like that. Roger, just thank you so much for sharing Discovery and all of the modifications you've made. So practical, so helpful for traveling. And if you haven't seen the, you folks were on the What's Up Wednesday live show and you were gracious enough to print out your modifications and where you got the stuff. And that's on my website, go small, live large.com. Go to the Woo tab, W-U-W, What's Up Wednesday. And you can actually download that. And all that came from Roger and Jane and all the stuff they've done. And I just want to thank you again for sharing your experiences with us. And you guys are just some of the most awesome people on the road. Well, thank you very much. And just thank you again, sir. You bet, you bet. And yeah, we enjoy it. Like I said, we love this machine. It allows us to explore. You can park it anywhere. You can park a car, just about. You know, I haven't run any place yet, except for at Luftsville. Right. But it's, we just love it, you know. And we love Volta. Yeah, Volta just changes everything. So just thanks again for sharing. And until we see you next time, we'll say, journey on. Thanks, Roger. And Roger brings up a good point, which is since he's done so many of these modifications and is very happy to talk about them. So if you've got questions about this specifically, just put the comment and the question down below and we'll work with Roger and Jane to get some of this stuff answered. Because again, reference that guide for sure. And then it lists where to get all the stuff, which is great. But yeah, thanks for helping out, answering questions. Cause I would be like, huh, I don't know. Some of these mods I need to do to myself or to my van and myself. It's pretty cool stuff. So thanks for offering that. Yep, no problem.