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I purchased the Micro-Air Start at the May rally. Trailer was purchased May 2016. The Dometic Heat Pump is the original unit. Finally purchased Honda 2000 Companion. Starts ac in both standard and eco-throttle mode. I have the Progressive Industries Surge Protector and their dummy ground plug in the 120V Honda outlet. Thanks to Matteo Giovanetti who did the install.

Well... we've been home for 5 days but we are still sleeping in the trailer. After 6 months it's our home! Sure we have a cabin in the woods also but home is where your heart is... And we haven't lived together in the new house yet, so here we are, out in the trailer where everything is set up perfectly already :) It will be a few weeks before we head out again to the Quincy Fiberglass RV Rally and in all honesty, we are still moving into the house between trips, so... Yup we love our Oliver,yea the voltage is down to 12.2 tonight but I'll set up the Renogy Solar Suitcase tomorrow and charge it back up. I will be changing out the Zamp Solar soon but this week I have a bunch of rewiring and plumbing repairs to do on both the house and the trailer now that we are home and all of the parts have arrived from Oliver. We found out tonight that the USB recepticals can only handle charging one cord at a time. Karen tried plugging in her iPad and her phone and it kept kicking out until she removed one of the cords :) I've been making or finishing up some more movies and here's part 4 on the Fiamma Awning -

Welcome. We took the factory tour a couple years ago, and the rest is history. We're currently in Montana in a 10 site forest service campground only partially full and had someone stop by our site to ask about our Oliver. Everyone we've ever shown it to was impressed, but more importantly, we love it and can't say enough good things about the Oliver brand and company.

Welcome to the Oliver family!!! We have also owned several RVs including our last one a 40ft Dutch Star. We full-timed in the Dutch Star 7 years ago for 2 years. Today we full-time in our 2017 Oliver Legacy Elite II and are loving it!! We are very happy with our Ollie. Low maintenance along with lower cost upkeep, high quality, easy to travel and park with many more site options!! You will have an exceptional manufacturer to back up your purchase!! Even though we full-time we spend a lot of time in our "home" base of Auburn Alabama!! Hope to see you down the road!!

The only downside to owning an Ollie I have experienced since we towed ours home from Hohenwald to SE Arizona this past June is the embarrassment I sometimes feel in falling in love with an inanimate object. After we decided on the Oliver, which was after conducting considerable research on travel trailers, we asked a lot of questions on this forum, and greatly benefitted from the answers we received. Ask away . . . --Jeff (Spike)

Obviously most of the owners of these wonderful campers have written that check - all for a reason. AND, now you too know the reason(s). Lob away with those questions - there are some very good minds here that just love the excitement of helping a (prospective) new owner get into our world. Bill

Welcome to the growing family of Oliver owners and want to bes. We have been down the road with 5th wheels, class A motorhomes, and little Scamps. A wireless rear camera allows safe passing on Interstates (and being able to with a stable towing Oliver). Solar power for being able to stop anywhere. No slides to constantly mess with. A creature space that is easy to heat, cool, and clean. These all add up to allowing us to do what we want, or do nothing at all...

Welcome Darrell &Kathy :) We have been in ours for over 6 months and Oliver continues to make improvements every day, you made the right choice.

We had a nice cloudy day here on the Oregon Coast today, so I was able to film part2 of our "Oliver Legacy Elite II - 2017" series, The Outside Storage Compartments. This also finishes up the rest of the Black Tank Cleaning movie that I started in part I. Filmed, edited, uploaded & produced all in just a couple hours this evening. We've been boondocking up here at Karen's mom's house waiting for water heater parts to get here from Oliver for a couple extra days. Jason overnighted the parts to us but I guess the delivery services in Florence,OR. have some catching up with the Jones's to accomplish because overnight was so... yesterday... :) Reed

I started finding stray hardware in my overhead cabinets, I took a closer look and found this: The holes are sized for a number 8 screw. The installed hardware is a number 4 FINE thread screw with a number 6 COARSE thead plain nut run down it. Whoever did this had his head in a very strange place indeed. The plain nuts rattle loose and the screws fall out. Then your expensive door can bang open and break out the hinge screws or worse. Simply unbelieveable! Here are the 8-32 x 3/4 stainless panhead screws and nylock (self locking) nuts that I installed. The washers are optional: For most of the latch plates I was able to get them to adjust back far enough to eliminate play. Some ran out of adjustment (probably the reason the too-small screws were installed) so for those I ground part of the head off the screws and also filed the slots in the brackets a little longer, so I could get more travel back.. I also checked and tightened as needed all the hinge screws. Please check your hardware, let us know here if you find the wrong size installed. Thanks, John Davies Spokane WA

After leaving Hohenwald last week, we headed NE We stopped in Kentucky and now at Gettysburg. Leaving tomorrow for Philadelphia. After Philadelphia, we want to visit NYC. At a loss of where to stay. Only listing I see is Liberty Harbor in NJ but recent reviews are terrible. Can anyone offer advice of other options? Will want to leave rig the rig unattended for a couple of days and take public transportation into the city.

Thanks for the clarification, Bill. I appreciate your input and am still considering adding the Anderson, for I totally agree with your view that "Virtually anything that I can do to make towing a bit safer for me, my family, and for others on the road is worth strong consideration."

Hello, We are Darrell and Kathy Waters and are currently on a western states trip (from Atlanta area) and on our way out we made our first stop in Hohenwald to tour the Ollie plant. I had done a fair amount of reading on the web so I was pretty interested/curious but had never seen one close up before then. Actually the first we'd heard of an Ollie was when we went to Alaska last year and we saw a couple on the road during that trip. Needless to say we were pretty impressed with what we saw in Hohenwald and have decided to put our current rig (Forest River 5th wheel) on the market when we return and hopefully we will be getting in the production line before long. We are spending time now reading and researching some options but at some point I may begin lobbing questions to some current owners for their input/suggestions. The Ollie is a considerable downsize from our current camper (30ft with 3 slides) but all of the maintenance issues I have dealt with on this rig have been engineered out of the Ollie.....slides, bad tires, and roof challenges. I am prepared to sacrifice some living space for less maintenance! We hope to be joining the ranks soon :-)

Jeff - My only point in asking the question was to allow people to think about and/or know what the capacities/capabilities of their particular tow vehicle are as recommended by the manufacturer. With my F-150 I can tow a bit over 12,000 pounds and have a hitch weight of up to 500 pounds without the use of a weight distribution hitch. Many of our Olivers are under (well under in the case of the total weight) both these numbers, but, they are close to that hitch weight. I do not think that any of the trucks (non HD) currently on the market are really all that different as far as these numbers are concerned. In my case, even though I am under the limits imposed by the manufacturer, I chose to not press those limits (that are already probably very conservative) and believe that I receive the benefits I have listed earlier. Virtually anything that I can do to make towing a bit safer for me, my family, and for others on the road is worth strong consideration in my book. Bill

Bill-- To try to answer your question about the towing capacity of my tow vehicle, I searched online and found this towing information from a Toyota website that is specific to my 2012 Tundra CrewMax 4x4, 5.7-liter V8 with 381 horsepower and integrated tow package: "The tow Package on all V8 models helps increase towing capacity up to 10,400 pounds. A one-piece towing receiver is integrated into the frame prior to bed installation. The structure runs nearly two feet down the length of the frame and attaches to each side around the rear spring shackles' cross-member with 12 bolts. Tow Package rear springs help level full-load rear suspension height and maintain a full range of suspension travel. Trailer Sway Control uses the Vehicle Stability Control (VSC) to help counteract handling forces applied to the truck in an effort to minimize the impact of trailer sway." When towing my Ollie, I have used and appreciated the "TOW/HAUL shift mode, selectable by a dedicated switch. The TOW/HAUL mode applies specific logic for adjusting the throttle sensitivity and transmission shift control, favoring and holding lower gears when accelerating or decelerating to help enhance control and safety." This is perhaps more than you asked for, but it helped me to review the capabilities of my tow vehicle. Thanks for asking. --Jeff (Spike)

Nope, it's not something that I really crank down on unless the wind is severe. Having water pooling on top is what worries me as far as stretching. I came back to my motorhome one day after my kids went down and used it in the rain and forgot to lower it back down, and found the awning stretched into a swimming pool full of water... After bailing until I couldn't reach anymore water, I ended up grabbing my knife and putting a slice in the bottom of the lake... It still took an hour or 2 to drain and the weight of all of the water pulled it off of the track and I ended up having to cut it off before I could drive it. But at least they said sorry... Lol. An old pic of the motorhome, my sister and the kids at our mining claim on the Yuba river when the awning had been drained :)

I am towing with a 2017 Ford 250. I have a back problem and I tow with a normal hitch (rated 8000). In 2017 Ford updated their towing guide for the 250 Series and removed any reference requiring WDH's. Limit on dead weight on hitch ball - 2016:600lbs -2017:1,200lbs. My Anderson is napping in my garage.

Spike - What does your owner's manual have to say about towing with the Tundra (i.e. at what point is a weight distribution hitch required)? Bill

Just returned home from camping at Bandit's Roost ACE Campground NC. We enjoy Kayaking and hiking while camping there.

Welcome! So your drank the kool-aid too. Ours goes into production in October and we just can't wait! This is our first. After literally years of no, not that one, over and over again from pop-ups all the way to motorhomes, the Ollie was the first and only, of any type that we felt wouldn't mean "throwing money out the window". Maybe we'll see you in May or "on the road". Trish

Darrell and Kathy, Welcome! We're camping in the Ollie right now. There was a knock on the door yesterday and it was a couple wanting to see the Ollie. We spent about 30 minutes showing the Ollie inside and out. Told them we purchased the Ollie used and they thought it was brand new. After getting up in the morning, make the beds up first, because many folks want to look in the Ollie after seeing the beautiful exterior finish. Debbie and I like camping in our Ollie! Time for Coffee!!!!!!!!!!

We dodged most of it too. We have our son and family here since their neighborhood is under water. We also have their good friends here who also managed to get out at the last minute. 4 adults, 3 little kids and 3 big dogs. It's a party! They've got some great stories about neighbors helping neighbors. It's hard to imagine what is happening just 3 hours away. Mike