2025 modifications

Happy New Year! 🎉

As we begin 2026, let’s look back at 2025, as is my tradition on this blog.

I will have a series of blog posts reviewing topics from last year. I typically schedule my posts following a pattern: Modification Mondays, Travel Tuesdays, Whereabouts Wednesdays, and To and Fro Thursdays and Fridays (okay, those last ones are bit of a stretch). So I will post my annual summaries in that order too (though not on those days), starting with modifications today.

We have done a number of modifications to our 2017 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40SP motorhome, to make it more comfortable as a full-time home, to improve the features, or to repair issues. This is a summary of some of the changes done in 2025; also check out the changes from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

You can also see all of these summary posts together via the Modifications Summary tag, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

For each modification topic I include a link to the corresponding blog post, and a sample picture; see the post for details. (Tip: you can click or tap on either the link or picture to go to the corresponding post.)

You can see all of the modification-related blog posts via the modifications category, with the earliest posts at the top, or the latest posts at the top.

Humidifier and water distiller:

Distiller

Broom hanging grippers:

Broom and mop on wall

Girard replaced window awning:

New window awning

Shower soap dispensers:

Shower soap dispensers

Extra pantry shelf:

Pantry shelves

Custom desk tweaks:

Desk

Polished and replaced exhaust tips:

Aqua-Hot exhaust tip

Power steering fluid leak repair, engine bracket replacements, underside of coach:

Behind the front wheels, with air horns and generator exhaust

Clock in bathroom:

Clock

Peeking behind the wet bay:

Pipes

Override Tecma macerating toilet controller with this one weird trick:

Toilet wires

Loose mudguard above rear wheels:

Mudguard above rear wheel

Using a sewer tote tank and macerator pump to dump waste tanks from the back of our truck again:

Dumping at dump station

Using magnets to hold a cupboard door out of the way:

Magnets joined to hold the door

Compact garbage bin fits next to toilet:

Garbage bin

Mirror head replacement:

New mirror head

AC replacements:

Carrying new AC up to roof

Moved toilet paper holder in half bath:

Toilet paper holder

Replacing light under kitchen sink:

Light

Flushing the gray tank:

Wet bay

Exploded AC squirrel cage:

Broken squirrel cage

Polishing wheel rims and headlights:

Purple metal polish

We were stuck! Slide-out failed to retract due to leaking piston:

Capped hydraulic hoses

Replacing cover on vent fan lid lift motor:

Cover on motor

RoamLink cellular service:

RoamLink

Dashcams:

Dashcams

Starlink Mini mounted on our truck:

Starlink dish in magnetic mount

Entry steps stuck:

Disconnected motor

Oregon Motorcoach Center repair of hydraulic slide-out:

Fridge connected to electricity

I hope you found these posts interesting and useful.