Valterra EZ Coupler RV Starter Kit

Video Transcript for Valterra EZ Coupler RV Starter Kit Review

AJ: What's up everybody, it's AJ with etrailer.com. Today, I'm going to be checking out this EZ Coupler RV accessory kit. This is a good place to start, if you just now getting into. You've got a camper or an RV and you're taking it out for the first time. Let's open it up and check it out. We've already opened up the kit.

We're going to go over everything one by one and just briefly go over how they work. But I'm also going to give you some add-ons that'll make your life easier and help you in the long run.First up is this fresh drinking water hose. This is going to be good for when you get to the campsite. You'll run this side to where they have the hookup for the water. And the other end, here, will go to your RV or camper.

Now, when you go to hook it up to their station, that they give you the water from, you're going to use this pressure regulator, as well. That way, if there's a 100 PSIs of pressure coming out of their side, you don't want it blasting through into your rig. Those pipes aren't meant for that much. This is going to drop it back down to 50. It's much more manageable for your rig.

With 25 feet of hose, we're going to have plenty to get back to our right here and screw it in.And now, you should have plenty of fresh water. My recommendation though, this doesn't come with the kit, but I would recommend getting one of these brass hose savers to run it in this side. That way, if the hose gets pulled down, it doesn't pinch anywhere, for any reason. And then you couldn't get water in there. You just remove this, tighten this in like you would the hose, then easily screw in the hose here.You can see now, that the hose comes down, the bend here is in the brass and this is going to last you a really long time.

And now your hose will last you way longer too. Another thing you may want to think about is a water filter. You can put a water filter here, that would sit here, in between your hose and your connection and filter the water going in to your city water connection. Back on this side of the hose, I just want to point out that it does include a replacement rubber washer, just in case this one was damaged or got lost. You'd easily just replace it with the extra one they give you. And then also the pressure regulator has a rubber washer with a filter on it. So, it's got this nice screen, that's going to keep any debris coming in from that outside source and it'll never touch your rig. The kit also comes with a 15 to 30 amp converter. So if your rig has a 30 amp plugin like this, it's going to be perfect. Just plug it in.And now it's converted to plug into your garage. Let's say you're at home, getting the camper set up to take out for the weekend. You're going to have power in there, clean it out, or load it up. But I'm going to be honest you, it's not the best way to do it. I would recommend getting one of these power cords, so you can just plug it in like that. It's much heavier duty. It's going to last a lot longer. Plus the loops help you when you go to plug it in and then pull it apart. The kit also includes some things to help you with your sewer system. First off, it has gloves. You're always going to want to wear gloves when you're dealing with this kind of stuff. We have the EZ Coupler sewer hose here that stretches out to about 10 feet and connects with bayonet connections.And I'll show you how to do that in just a second, but I want to talk about the durability of the hose. This one seems pretty heavy duty. I like it because you can see I'm pulling it tight. It doesn't seem like it's about to rip or anything like that. I can push down on it, not causing problems. Some of them can be really cheap and just me pushing on it would rip it. And then there goes your sewer hose. You definitely don't want one of these springing leak. I'll show you how the bayonet fitting works with the sewer connection. You can see, it connects like that. And then you just twist it around and it slides into place. I'll try and pull it apart, remove it. It's not going anywhere. It's not going to let anything out. It's going to stay here in the clear part, so you can watch it as it dumps.And when it changes through a more clear color, you know that that's water coming through and you've dumped out your tank. Now, it will fit dump stations for three, three and a half and four inches diameter. So, that's good to know because you never know what kind of size it's going to have. It'll fit all three different sizes of those, so you're covered wherever you are.It also comes with a couple of other bathroom related items. You have the bio pouch, which you're going to drop in the tank of your toilet and that's going to help break down things in your tank overall. So, it'll help break down waste and toilet paper in there, making the cleaning out process even easier. Plus, it gets rid of the smell. You're going to get four of these in the kit and two rolls of two-ply toilet paper because your RV or camper can't use the same toilet paper you use in your house. The plumbing is not set up for that. So two-ply is the way to go. It also comes with a leveler. You can just easily set that on your tongue of your trailer, and you can see if your camper or RV is level.Now, it does have sticky two-sided tape here. So you can just peel this off and you can stick it there permanently. You can stick it to your rig too, but I recommend buying a bigger version of one of these, with a bigger bubble in there. That way, you can see it from, maybe, the rear view mirror of your vehicle while you're backing up, when you're trying to find that level ground. I would rather just put it here. And it certainly helps you see when you pull up and you just look and say, oh, I can adjust the side to side or front to back to get this bubble more here in the middle.Now, another way you can do that is get some leveling blocks. We carry a bunch of them here on etrailer.com. I recommend checking some of those out, so you can kind of balance out your camper. That way when you're inside of it, it's nice and level. Well, that's all the items in the kit. I think it's a really good start for your first few adventures. You'll learn how to do all that stuff and kind of get a better handle on the way things go. I didn't want to throw out some other suggestions, just to help you out and make life easier. That way you can focus more on adventure and less on the unfun stuff. I think that does it for our look at the EZ Coupler kit. I hope this helped..