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We found the picture we liked for the tire cover. Auto Arts in Raleigh NC had an artist on site to air brush a duplicate of the picture to the cover, and then they applied several coats of clear coat. Great job auto arts ! Disclosure, We are very proud of our son in law and daughter's business. (Auto Arts) http://www.autoartsinc.com/

I think we are talking about two issues here. 1---How to drain the tanks at the dump station quickly and efficiently. Answer: Raise the nose. The more lift, the faster the gray tank will drain. 2---How to maximize the fresh water you have access to. Answer: Raise the nose a little bit above level should do it. (unless your water pump pick-up point is wrong, as may be the case in #200)

We DO have that interagency senior pass and use it often. Best $10 I ever spent. Sadly, we left Yellowstone this morning. We are overnighting in nowhere Montana planning to hit the Glacier National Park sometime tomorrow. Most of the later pics at Yellowstone were beyond what this phone can do we did see hundreds of bison, dozens of elk, five mountain goats and two black bears we missed the wolves somehow here is a pic from the east entrance

I strongly second this. Plus it is legal to transport into western Canada, if declared at your crossing. The odds of even seeing a griz are very very low, but you do not want to be defenseless if the worst should happen. A handgun is legal in Glacier if you have a valid pistol permit, but shooting a bear in a National Park brings you untold legal grief....That does't stop me from carrying a big revolver. A mountain biker (a Park employee) was killed there by a bear last year, but in his case he came barreling around a blind turn on the wooded trail, right into the bear. You can hardly blame the bear for what happened next. Enjoy Glacier. It is a beautiful place. John Davies Spokane WA

Mike & Elizabeth - be a bit more careful of the bears in Glacier. In my experience, there seems to be more of them or just possibly there are less people in the places I hike/fish. A neighbor of mine was on site during a griz attack several years ago. The momma bear came at a father - daughter from the uphill side when she realized that her cubs were on the downhill side with humans in the middle. The father - daughter never realized that there were any bears there until it was too late (both survived as did all three bears). Bear spray is a good thing. Bill

I fixed our gray tank problem over a month ago. It would drain down to 25% because the diamond plate was bent up. Now it drains to 6% quickly, and if you're on full hook ups, leveled out, in about 10 minutes it will all drain out now to 0%. You can read about that here at post 53462 - . . . http://olivertraveltrailers.com/topic/reed-karens-blog/#post-53462

If you are at a campground with full hookups, and simply raising the nose of the trailer to completely drain the gray water tank before leaving for a new destination, that may be ok, not too inconvenient. If you are hooked up to your tow vehicle at a dump station, and you have to unhitch to raise the nose to completely drain the gray water tank, then rehitch to the tow vehicle, how is that an acceptable solution? When we are boondocking I can draw the fresh water tank down to 10-15 percent( 3-4 gallons left in tank) without having to raise the nose of the trl, it's a simple matter to raise the nose of the trl. The front jack is robust enough to raise the trl with your tow vehicle hooked up when dumping your tanks, it has a 3,500 lb capacity, you don't have to lift it very high, just above level works fine.

Oliver pays for a night at a local campground. Recommend planning on two nights - even if there are no issues it's good to have a full day to check out all the features. We didn't get to the campground until late afternoon. We did do some checking out, but had to have time for a nice dinner and celebratory glass of wine! Mike

There are a number of issues that have been discussed in this thread. 1) Quality Control during the trailer build, especially as Oliver has ramped up production. 2) Communication problems between the sales office and the factory. 3) Potential design flaws in the tanks. 1) Quality Control. We found only a couple of problems in our unit. One of these is a mis-aligned bathroom door latch. We returned to the factory the next day, and they spent an hour trying to fix it quickly, but were not successful. Their solution would be to dismantle and reassemble the door and frame, which they estimated would be four hours. We elected to live with it, as we had camping reservations in Missouri that night, and we needed to return home to Utah for our full time jobs. The Lesson, as several people have advised here, is to plan to spend several days nearby. We did not, and I wish we had. We discovered several other problems after we returned home. Each time Oliver shipped us parts, and for one of the items, offered to pay a local RV shop to perform the installation. That offer shows commitment to the customer and the product. As it turned out, I was able to install things myself. 2) Communication problems. Canoe12 mentioned the problem of the awning that was the wrong color after they made a change order. We had similar issues, where we made several changes subsequent to our initial build order. These changes were listed on the revised excel order sheet the sales office emailed me, but they failed to communicate these changes to the factory. This is a Systems problem, one which I hope Oliver will address. The Lesson for buyers is to specifically ask the sales office staff to communicate these changes to the factory. 3) Potential design flaws in the tanks. I don’t think the tank design has changed between my 2016 unit and the Lukens’ 2017 unit. Grey and black tanks. We have had no problems draining the grey and black tanks, once we learned to raise the nose of the trailer when draining. I did post about the monitor calibration for the grey tank, and how it was not really linear. My solution is to post my graph of Monitor Reading vs Percent Full on the inside of the pantry door, so I can infer a true reading. I did enough research on tank monitors before we decided on the Oliver to know that the See Level Monitor is the best in the industry. Fresh water tank. We have not had the problems that the Lukens describe with the fresh water tank. The problem the Lukens describe will only be apparent when boondocking, and not when using hookups. On our last boondocking trip, we drained our tank to a monitor reading of probably 15-20% capacity, when we went to get more water and pumped it into the tank. I think the Lukens are describing a problem unique to their unit, and I hope it is an easy fix. Thus, in my opinion, this is not a systematic problem or a design flaw. David

Spoke at great length today with Anita, sales consultant at Oliver. She called me. We discussed all these issues and she assured me all problems are taken care of by Oliver and ongoing issues are being addressed so they stop happening. But she also stated that most owners have no problems, except for the expected kinks that usually get worked out quickly. We are still planning on touring the factory at the end of June and talking about everything. I think the best advice I have seen on here so far is when picking up your new Ollie to plan on spending a night, or two, or however long it takes to get any problem you can discover worked out.

David and Gail, While the shallow, yet long design of the tanks results in a languid empying of the gray tank, I believe (and hope) this is a problem unique to hull #200. You know those drinking containers we carry around with a straw to suck on for drinking water? If the straw did not go to the bottom, we may not have access to all of that good water we carry. It sounds like Reed and Karen may have something like this going on with #200. Let's hope the factory sends out a top mechanic with a box of tools and "stuff" to make them whole so Karen can always get the soap out of her hair and Reed doesn't have to haul the buckets of water around all the time. Pete