6 Online Tools and Calculators For RV Owners
RV'ing is a wonderful past time and can be something that many people aspire to do "one day." But there's more to RV'ing than what meets the eye from the outside looking in. Whether a person already owns an RV or they are thinking of buying an RV, these 6 free calculators and tools can help enhance your RV experience now and/or in the future.
IQ Calculators RV Loan Calculator
Whether one is thinking of purchasing and financing an RV, or already owns an RV with a loan, this RV loan calculator will help you calculate your loan payments and loan amortization schedule. Here's everything this calculator calculates to help them understand their loan better.
- RV loan monthly payment
- Total payments, principal, and interest paid during the life of the loan
- RV value at the end of the loan if the user chooses to enter their purchase price and an annual depreciation rate
- Full amortization schedule or table of the RV loan
- Charting and graphing of loan balance, principal and interest, and RV value over time
- Extra monthly payment capabilities to determine the affect of extra monthly payments on the loan schedule
- Ability to calculate loan payments on existing loan by using the "years left to pay" field
Why We Love It
Call us biased, but we believe this is the most complete and diverse RV loan calculator on the internet. There's not another RV loan calculator with this much functionality packed into an easy to use interface. We hope you think so too!
Fifth Wheel Street - RV Tow Check Calculator
This RV Tow Check calculator allows the user to enter the amount their vehicle is certified to tow and then subtracts the weight of the RV trailer, as well as other weight in order to calculate whether the vehicle will be able to tow the RV trailer.
Why We Love It
The user interface is not the friendliest, but the calculation fields are all equipped with tooltips that give the user very clear instructions on how to not only use the calculator but also find the numbers from their vehicle in order to enter them into the correct fields.
Husky RV Towing Calculator
This is another RV towing calculator for trailers of all types and sizes. But it can specifically be used for RV trailers. This calculator calculates a lot of numbers so here is the complete list:
- GVW w/ Trailer
- GAW(Gross Axle Weight)
- Hitch (Pin) Weight
- Reserve Trailer Cargo Capacity
- GCW w/ Trailer (Gross Combined Weight)
- Reserve Trailer Capacity
Why We Love It
This RV Trailer calculator has a really nice user interface and is very simple and intuitive to use. Since it's created for all kinds of trailers and not just RV fifth wheel trailers, it has a lot more options for the user. For example, the user can enter the specific types of cargo on the trailer and that cargo's weight.
KOA's RV Fuel Cost Calculator
KOA is the organization that runs many campground and RV parks around the country. Since they own many RV parks, they were kind enough to offer this RV Fuel Cost Estimator for their patrons. The calculator has the user enter a current fuel price and an anticipated fuel price and the number of miles per gallon the vehicle or RV gets. Lastly, by entering the miles expected for the trip, the calculator easily calculates the estimated cost of the fuel for the trip.
Why We Love It
KOA is one of the main provider of RV campgrounds and parks in America. Its a great way to help park patrons plan and get to their RV destination.
RV Cost of Ownership Calculator
This calculator is brought to us by RVtipster.com and is a cost of ownership calculator for RVs. Many people don't realize how expensive it can be to live in an RV full time or to even travel in one part time. This RV calculator helps the user break down the costs into an excel spreadsheet and calculates a final "total travel cost per day" number.
Why We Love It
This RV cost of ownership calculator is very simple to use and is in spreadsheet layout form which seems to be very intuitive. The best part is that this spreadsheet creates a template for someone to think through before buying an RV or think through before taking a trip in the RV they currently own. Between RV site hookup costs, maintenance and repairs, and fuel costs, traveling in an RV can be expensive!
Escapees RV Trip Mapping Tool
This RV trip mapping tool is a fantastic tool! It helps RV travelers plan their stops along a route. For example, if I entered that I was going from Kansas City, Missouri to Denver, Colorado, the map would pull up all of the RV sites between Kansas City and Colorado. A simple search in Google Maps may render the same result, but this is targeted only toward RV hookup sites whereas a Google Maps search may deliver more unwanted results.
Why We Love It
This RV trip mapping tool is great for planning RV routes and trips....however, user beware that this may not have all RV site hookups on one's route and it might be wise to double check another source as well. If not for that, this is a really cool RV tool and hopefully, it continues to improve.
Conclusion
We hope these free online RV calculators and tools are useful to their readers. If there are any others worth mentioning, give us a shout and they can be added to the list.
