Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches February 28, 2026 ...

For the washer/dryer, while sucking in antifreeze at the fresh water pump, have someone start the washer/dryer on a cycle that involves warm, and watch for pink stuff to appear in the drum.  Cancel the cycle and run the drain/spin one.  Repeat.  That will flush antifreeze through the fill and drain lines of the washer.  Do this last since it takes the most antifreeze.


We usually did the following as our winterizing process (easiest with 2 people):

Open low point drains (including the one for the fresh tank), faucets.  Extend fresh water hose fully.  Let everything drain.  Close all faucets and drains, don't put hose away yet. <--- Don't forget to close ALL or you'll be buying more antifreeze 

Using a 2-5 gallon bucket, open at least 5 bottles of antifreeze and have within reach, pour antifreeze into bucket.  Start sucking pink stuff via water pump and replenish the bucket level as you go (easier than starting and stopping water pump to move to a new gallon container.

Starting with the wet bay faucet (because it's easy to see if you forgot to close an AquaHot drain if you are by its bay), run cold tap until pink comes out, close, the run hot until pink comes out and close.

Next go through every faucet in the coach, including shower, filtered water at sink, and cycle icemaker in fridge until pink appears in ice cube openings (use paper towels to check for this.  Do both hot and cold until pink stuff comes out.

Flush toilet and use spray wand (if so equipped) until pink appears.  Repeat, especially if you have a VacuFlush toilet.

Flush Splendide twice.

Turn off fresh water pump.

Pour any remaining antifreeze into fresh water hose and hold up to attempt to get antifreeze into rest of hose reel.  If you have enough antifreeze you can turn on the fresh water fill valve and you might get a little antifreeze through it via the gravity fill from holding the hose up high.

We would typically then open all faucets and the fresh water tank drain and leave them open for the winter.  We also removed the drain screw on the utility bay faucet.  We did not re-dump the grey or black tanks since they should have decent freeze protection with the antifreeze that went into them.

How do you cycle the ice maker? By turning it off and then on again?

It depends on the fridge model.  Check the owner's manual for your fridge on how to do it.

On our Samsung residential side by side there's a small button on the bottom of the ice tray mechanism. Hard to see but you can feel it and hear the gears moving when it's pushed in.