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OLIVER FORUM GUIDELINES Welcome to the Oliver Forum, a great place for Oliver Travel Trailer owners and future owners to interact, share knowledge, solve problems, and most importantly, to develop friendships. Respectful and considerate responses help build this community. You’ll find a wealth of experiences here, and many owners willing to share their experiences. Have fun, but please keep others’ viewpoints in mind. Respectfully state your point, share your information, or ask your question. Keep it casual and friendly. Reread your post before you hit submit. Is it helpful? Thoughtful? Please try to stay on the original topic of the thread. Confusing the issue may cause the member’s original question to go unanswered. Start a new topic if you have a new question. It’s important for all members to have the environment and opportunity to contribute in a considerate manner, and to learn. Inflammatory and trolling comments shall be removed by a volunteer moderator. We encourage members to use the “REPORT” function (bottom right corner of each post) to help us, as we’re not reading every post, 24/7. If your post is removed, you’ll receive a PM about it. If there is a continuing problem, further action may be taken, up to and including your removal from the forum. Some inflammatory topics to avoid include religion and politics. We’re all about camping, and Oliver campers. Over the years, we’ve seen a few simple topics turn into heated debates. It’s natural to want to jump in, but honestly, it’s often better to let it go, and hit the report button, instead. We moderators are avid campers. Even as we write this, we are all out camping, some with limited bandwidth. We respond as quickly as we can, and the sooner we know, the better. Some have asked why our forum is linked to the Oliver website. Valid question. Since the beginning of our forum in 2008, Oliver Travel Trailers (OTT) has paid for our Oliver “sandbox”, including our web space and an administrator who knows way more than we do about maintaining the software, for which we are very grateful. OTT DOES NOT CENSOR OR INTERFERE with the moderators’ management of the forum content. Moderators are not employees of OTT. We are Ollie owners, and receive no remuneration. OTT does have a employee designated to read the forum for the purpose of improving the “Ollie Experience” for all, but that’s a few minutes a day in a busy job description. If you should ever have an issue or a warranty claim, call tech support. Your post might not be seen on the forum by an Oliver employee. With that in mind, we moderators ask you to communicate directly with the company and afford them an opportunity to satisfy any serious needs before flaming OTT on the forum. We are not asking that anything to be swept under the rug. Just, please, let Oliver Travel Trailers have the first shot to meet and exceed your expectations. Sometimes, communications here may be misinterpreted, because the written word just doesn’t carry the visual clues of face to face conversations. Should you believe a post is a little ill-mannered, consider the poster might be trying to be helpful, but isn’t able to put his or her words together the way you might. Forums work best when our skin tends to be a bit on the thicker side. Remember as well, whatever you post will likely be permanent, and picked up by automated internet software programs. Though this is our forum, it’s still on the world wide web. Our words may very well outlive us. Please, be especially patient with newbies. Our search feature is still being tweaked, and they may not have found an answer by simply using “Search”. You may remember your own newbie questions . . . of many years ago. If you have already answered the same newbie question as many times as you care to, relax and allow someone else to step up and reply. Help foster a community of teachers. We recommend all phone numbers and email addresses be sent in private messages and NOT posted. If you must post personal data, we suggest you post in a manner so trolling automated internet programs will not grab your personal information and use it nefariously. For instance, a phone number might be “8ThreeZero, 5one5, 9 2 eight seven”, or for an email address, something like “Bill DOT Fisher at flyboy DOT com”. Please reread this, and help us continue to make our forum a great place for everyone. We hope you enjoy our forum. Thank you, bugeyedriver, SeaDawg, ScubaRx, Mike and Carol, topgun2 , Mossemi Oliver Owner Moderator Team

The 2020 Oliver Travel Trailer Owners’ Rally will be held Thursday, May 14 thru Sunday, May 17, 2020. Once again, the Oliver Travel Trailer Owners’ Rally will be held at Lake Guntersville State Park, located in Guntersville, AL The cost for the 2020 rally will be in two parts: the rally registration costs (mostly rally meals), and the campground registration costs. At this time, we are working to lower the rally registration costs. We will announce the costs after we have adaquate sponsorship. We will be working with Oliver and the vendors to have rally sponsorship to reduce attendee costs. We do, however, know that campground cost is going to be $24.00/night (or $14.00/night for a boon docking spot). Camping Reservations –(256) 571-5455 For the 2020 rally, all the Oliver Travel Trailer Owners will need to call the campground and reserve their campsites for the dates that you want. They will ask for a one-night deposit of $24.00 (or $14.00 for boon docking). When you arrive at the campground for the 2020 rally, you will pay for your remaining nights in the campground. And then in a few weeks, when we finalize the rally costs, we will all need to call the Lodge to make rally reservations and pay for the rally costs. We will give you the exact rally costs as soon as we know. Thanks to everyone that attended the 2019 Rally. A big THANKS to all of the great volunteers. Fun was had by all, we learned much from each other and we are now better campers as a result of our rally. I look forward to seeing you next year. More Information and Registration here: https://olivertraveltrailers.com/events/2020-oliver-owners-rally/

I installed the LED awing lights the other day, I used the aluminum holders that are sold on Amazon along with a LED Kit they sell. I put it all up with double sticky tape and no drilling was used, since the lights are mounted to the awning part that extends out when opening, I will just plug in the light controller and 12v converter and Velcro them to the awning arms when I use the lights, as there is no room on the arms to permanently affix them when arms close and fold up. At this time I do not want to drill any holes in the trailer for running wires, maybe at a later date I will do that, but see no reason at this time. The aluminum holders are done very nice and have a plastic light cover that gives the lights when lit a mat look, comes with all the trim ends and mounting hardware, no double sticky tape is included. You do get enough aluminum strips to do two awnings, so you have extra to do something else if wanted. Install time was around two hours, most of that time was thinking about what I was going to do and how. trainman

For the time being I will just lay the LED controller and 12V power supply along inside the awing cover when we use the lights and then run the wire along the awing arms and down the side of the trailer and plug into the 120v outside plug. This is not my preferred way of doing it, but for the time being it will work as we will only be using the lights when we are camping in one place and not setting up everyday and have to take the wires up and down. If I wanted a permanent way of doing it I would just run the 12V wires from the lights along the awning arms and put a small hole in the fiberglass by the light switch inside panel by the door and power them from there. This way the lights could be used anytime with the awning in, or out. One other idea is to purchase a 12V battery power source with a charger and just Velcro the battery behind the the LED's and power the lights that way, no wires, no drilling, just recharge when needed, will probably go this way after I find out if I'm happy with the lights. This might be the best way yet for me, https://www.amazon.com/TalentCell-Rechargeable-12000mAh-Multi-led-indicator/dp/B00ME3ZH7C/ref=sr_1_7?crid=2IQFDY04UVSFU&keywords=12v+battery+pack+with+charger&qid=1566069641&s=gateway&sprefix=12v+battery+pack+with+charger%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-7 trainman

We’ve had #313 since March 2018 and the propane detector has never gone off. I think Overland may be correct:

I set mine off while cleaning glue from the edge of the vinyl floor under the dinette with Goof Off (MEK?). I guess that shouldn’t have surprised me. But it’s never gone off otherwise. I imagine that each unit has its own particular tolerance so replacing it with another might well solve the problem.

Probably not everywhere, but my local Lowe's carries several models of the Little Giant in stock, including the newer, lighter, but not quite as adjustable fiberglass King Kombo. Not as easy to carry in the truck bed. More available online, ship free to store. Costco has only one, aluminim, 1a rated, online right now. I think its a model made for them, but a really nice size. Sherry

I've been looking at replacing all the switches with relays on a 16 channel board with a raspberry pi. That'd make easy app control, or with the an IO board, easy control with physical switches to include a big red button. Bonus in that you can now automate it all as well so you get "welcome home" lighting as desired. As for loud noises, we have a dog that will take care of that in abundance. Animals seem to similarly shy away when the dog goes ballistic. If someone wants to open the door when they hear the dog, then not much in blinking lights and sirens will work and they are probably high and it's best to turn to plan C. Front cameras don't look like they are offered anymore, but the wiring diagram says there is still power run for it. Front camera would cover the biggest blindspot. I'd like to get 360 coverage for parking as well as keeping tabs on what's going on outside without having to peek through the blinds - with recording. At a minimum, I want to be able to see who's at the door without having to peak out.

Little further down this rabbit hole. It's easy to lift and put some bigger tires on the upper trims of the Expedition: It allows greater tire sizes. The MAX allows 630 lbs of tongue weight without a WDH, so I might try that. We've also looked at the Navigator a bit -- only 600lbs allowed on the tongue and lower towing (in the 8000's) but plenty for our needs. Bonus is the headlights become auto leveling in the Navigator and more power and torques. They both drive much smoother than an F150 and handle rutted/potholed roads without the drama the F150 has. The MAX/Navigator L can even fit plywood in the back (all seats down). Also checked out the Explorer based Aviator's specs - it supports 670 tongue weight and 6700 lbs trailers. It might not be a bad option for someone who doesn't need the space/need to max out their ollie. No Pro Trailer assist for backup but does have lane centering assist. It only weighs 4600 for the base model though...