2024 Truck Campers: A Home on Wheels
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- 00:00 Welcome to our tour!
00:10 2024 Adventurer 80RB
05:37 2023 Cirus 620
14:28 2024 Wolf Creek 850SB
21:41 2023 Adventurer 901SB
30:28 2024 Adventurer 86FB
40:10 2023 Adventurer 910DB
52:24 2024 Northern Lite 8-11 EXLE-WB
58:44 2023 Arctic Fox 811LB
01:06:24 2024 Arctic Fox 992
01:14:17 2024 Arctic Fox 990
01:19:59 2024 Arctic Fox 1150
01:25:19 Wrap up
This week we're touring 11 truck campers. Join us as we crawl, fall, stumble and discect the latest truck camper offerings from Northern Lite, Great Wolf, Acrtic Fox and Adventurer. We live full time in a truck camper, so we know what we like, and we know what we don't like. Let's find out if our thinking lines up!
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We're traveling throughout the US and Canada in our Arctic Fox 990 truck camper. Where do you think we should go next?
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Loved the no sales pitch video, by full timers!
Thanks. We’re just regular people with no vested interest beyond our love for truck campers. 😄
Great Comprehensive Video On The New Truck Campers. Thank You For Taking Us Along.
Thanks! It’s a long one 🤣🤣
Thanks for all the tours!
Our pleasure! We had fun crawling through the TC’s. Thanks for watching. 😀
One small step for Steve, one giant leap for Noelle😁. Glad we bought our Cirrus when we did. The prices have sure gone up.
That step was ridiculous!!! 😲
We’re glad to have bought when we did too. Prices are so high now!
Love that 1150. Might just have to get one. Something to plan for a winter trip so we could exchange our Lance 960 for one of them bad boys. 😉 That Denali Rugged Mountain is on our dream list too but who knows.
Hey there! That 1150 is sure nice. We have a huge dream list of campers and trucks. 🤣 I heard that the newest Arctic Foxes finally have an updated color scheme. Of course, a lot of people hate any change. But I’m excited to see one in person since I think they’re way past due for something more modern.
Ikea has the Luroy slatted bed base, which is as close to what you can get in the froli system, and it's $50 bux.
Most all of the campers now are coming with 350-400 watts of solar because the fridges are all 12v now... so take that for what it is. Looked like Adventurer was using up the last of their stock propane fridges.
On your oven, I haven't done it yet but a few different people told me about placing a baking stone at the bottom rack of oven and so that will soak up heat and hold more evenly at bottom of stove. Another piece of clutter for the camper I guess but supposed to work decent.
Hey Todd. It’s always good to hear from you! We heard about that IKEA bed base too. It’s a decent price and probably pretty light weight.
You know we think solar is the way to go for sure. And yeah it does seem like Adventurer is using up the propane fridges. 12v fridge is appealing to us. If ours ever takes a dive, we’ll lean toward one.
We also haven’t put the tile in the oven although we’ve talked about it. We don’t bake super often. And the damn thing doesn’t even like to stay on. It hasn’t been a great experience with our stove. Steve is going to replace the thermocouple and see if that helps. But honestly, I’m pretty good to just use it for storage 😆.
Noelle
@CupcakeChroniclesTC I like my propane fridge for the boonedocking factor, and ultimately, I think the 3 way ones are the best bc who doesn't love more options. Before all these manufacturers ousted propane on a whim... they should've taken 3 or 7 minutes to think about exactly who is insane enough to purchase a truck camper between $55(entry level)-95k 🤷♂️🤦♂️
You didn't miss much by not seeing Lance. The last small batch of brand new one's I saw at a dealer came complete from factory with ext delamination bubbles and loose/falling off trim all over the inside. For now we like the 2007 AF990
@@ToddStull Propane for boondocking is nice. It’s crazy what these new campers cost. Between the camper and the truck it’s a ton of cash 💰😲.
That surprised us about the Lance. We saw the 2023 ones at last years RV show and they looked nice inside. They’re all so close together at those shows that you can’t see much of the exterior. I’m feeling disappointed in the poor quality you saw!
@CupcakeChroniclesTC I did recently contact Arctic Fox with a suggestion/complaint that they don't have any non-slide model in-between the 865 and the 990 where you can still have the back wrap and generator if you have a long box truck. They actually did reply back and said that they have some things in the works with that and to keep checking back. So, at least they are listening. I'd actually love basically a 990 without the slide, tho to take off a solid 500 lbs or so of weight.
@@ToddStull A 990 without the slide would be just about perfect. We’d go no-slide if we were doing it over.
If you're 6'3" tall, and "solidly built" you need a Northern Lite 10-2. Headroom is 6'8" except under the A/C where it's 6'5". The bathroom is taller too. N-L campers last forever, so you pay more, but they last 2-3x as long. Also maintenance costs are lower as there is only 1 seam to maintain and the roof is solid fibreglass, not TPO. It doesn't require special cleaning materials, can't get torn by tree branches and since it's one piece, won't leak at the seams, or edges. Also, it's good to -20, I'd hate to try that in abything other than a N-L or maybe an Adventurer. The basement on both of those is heated, so your tanks, lines and valves won't freeze.
I like to think of myself as “husky.” 😂the AF 990 gives me a lot of headroom in the living space and bedroom. I can stand up in the bathroom, which is a nice bonus. I’ve not looked at the northern lite, but I’m all about more headroom. The northern lites look amazing! Thanks for writing!
Prices are scary. The toilet when your cooking the oysters would have been handy 😂. What do you do on the fox if you need a dump? Is it in the shower area?
The prices are absolutely insane. A new TC isn’t cheap! Our 990 Arctic Fix has a toilet in the same space as the shower.