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07-23-2013, 06:16 PM
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Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Blinds while in Tow
Do you guys leave the blinds up or pulled down while in tow?
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07-23-2013, 06:42 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Olympia, Washington
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Up! The original owners of my trailer told me to travel that way because it can leave marks when down. I don't know if it's true, but it makes sense to leave them up since the loops that hold them when they're down don't really seem to hold well even when the trailer is stationary.
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07-23-2013, 06:46 PM
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Location: Calgary, Alberta
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I have actually never thought about it, nor noticed any difference either way. I would bet they are down more than up though.
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07-23-2013, 08:01 PM
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Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
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We travel with the blinds down.
No problem so far with loops (if you mean the part that the string is attached to at the bottom?) and them staying down. Maybe there is a different blind system in the newer models? Have not checked the walls to see if they leave marks.
One advantage of having them down is it keeps the sun out and therefore probably keeps the trailer cooler on warm sunny days?
There could be a security benefit to keeping them down as well. If you can't see what is inside there is probably less likelihood that someone would want to get in and take things!
Other than that I guess it would be personal preference.
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07-23-2013, 08:45 PM
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Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
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We have the pleated blinds and travel with them down. for the same reasons as JohnB. I imagine they would migrate down while traveling anyway.....
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07-23-2013, 08:53 PM
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Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia
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Down. Down Bowser. Down.
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07-23-2013, 09:30 PM
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Location: Kelowna, British Columbia
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UV will cook them eventually. I say drive with them up.
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07-23-2013, 10:39 PM
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You think? Tinted windows.
But, they also have to survive the mashed mosquitoes.
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07-23-2013, 11:10 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Olympia, Washington
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I have the old metal blinds, I believe you all with newer trailers have cellular shades (the connected kind). The metal kind rattle and make all sorts of racket if you barely bump them, and I think it makes sense to ride with them up, the shades would probably be fine either way.
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07-24-2013, 12:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Steveston B.C., British Columbia
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Some down, some up, some half either way. No matter.
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07-24-2013, 12:29 AM
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I concur. According to the official Escape Trailer Industries check list - "Blinds secure".
I've always pulled them down to the bottom, but now I realize that I really don't know what "secure" is.
I don't think it matters at all.
What are they going to do? Open the fridge and drink my beer?
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07-24-2013, 01:17 AM
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Hi: gbaglo... If you cross the border with the blinds closed "They" might think you're smuggling a trailer full of aliens into their country. Or worse yet... too much strong Canadian beer!!! Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie
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07-24-2013, 09:18 AM
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Member
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Location: Gabriola Island, BC, British Columbia
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We always travel with them down. You get the nosy lookie-lous in the ferry line-ups otherwise! Those nose marks are a bugger to get off.........
Christine
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07-24-2013, 09:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Devil Dog
Some down, some up, some half either way. No matter.
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Yeah, just not something I ever worried about. I imagine ours are in the same state of closed as yours.
Christine, could the nose marks possibly be on the inside from the good lookin' furkid in your user photo?
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07-24-2013, 12:18 PM
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Member
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Location: Gabriola Island, BC, British Columbia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Bennett
Christine, could the nose marks possibly be on the inside from the good lookin' furkid in your user photo?
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Oh, the inside? That's a whole other thing. But to be fair to her, I never have to worry about condensation on the dinette windows!
We were inside the 5.0 once in a ferry line up when a couple stuck their noses to the windows. I guess they didn't see us soon enough through the tinted glass. They looked a bit shaken when Minnie (the Springer) put her nose to theirs on the inside and barked
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