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A long road trip with wifeTina from our home on Samish Island near Bow WA in the PNW to Erie Colorado. Helping in the move back home of our Daughter and family we finally sited an Oliver in Livingston Montana on I-90 headed East. We were going back home west and it was a serious wind storm. All that road and good to see at least one Ollie !!!!!! Mike

Thank you for pointing me to that thread! I, like others, found the pictures incredibly helpful!

I have induction at-home, but from what I have read, these dometic/ smev cooktops are similar to home ranges. The gas jet technology was pretty much state if the art when we got our 2008. Tried, and true, now. And. I do have serious envy of your continuous grate. That'd really nice. My skinny wire 2008 grates work, but not "grate." Lol.

No BT thermostat in our 2021 Elite II, hull 699. Don't get me wrong . . . . I'm no technophobe . . . . I embrace technology. But I'm glad to have one less app on my phone and one less tech gadget to manage. As for convenience in adjusting temp from bed, I turn my phone off at night, to give it a rest and chance to recharge. Usually I'm snuggled in my down sleeping bag, so temp doesn't matter. You can set the thermostat to come on at a certain temperature . . . . . don't think you can at a certain time. On another note, I can't believe we just picked up our #699 in December and we are now talking about hull# in the 800's . . . . . Wow!!

Thanks for the advice. I think the caps are attached or, if not, the cap on the rear burner is stuck on tight. Our home gas cooktop has similar base and cap, though the caps are cast iron. The propane comes up in the middle of the base, like a Bunsen burner (ask me how I know!) I do like the looks of the cooktop; the continuous cast iron grate is great (pun intended). The stove itself is an improvement over the one that came installed in our Leisure Travel Van. It had light separate grates over each burner. They fit into the top in grommets that broke and were expensive to replace. And, the stove was set into the counter with a black rubber (or some material) seal around the edges. If you got a pan close to the seal, it melted! One con I have found with the Oliver stove is that the writing on the control knobs comes off if you wash them with any kind of cleaner. It sounds like Oliver has the best choice available. Once I hear from Oliver, we will probably pull the cook top out and inspect to see if any repair is needed.

My son has the same No Bo, only he left the wheels on.

No offense intended, but I'm perfectly happy with my analog 2008 thermostat. I really don't need or want bluetooth. I just want a thermostat that works . I hope mine lasts another 14 years...

My technique has been to take the trailer to Oliver for something else, and they'll put a new screen in for you. I keep taking the screen off to improve the view, and Oliver keeps adding it back. I have a collection of three in the basement now.

I tried to get Oliver to give me a hatch like you're talking about in place of the shower caddy, but they forgot and had the hole cut before I caught it. So they gave me the porthole in the closet instead, which I think is fine. If I need to do major surgery, I'll remove the caddy like Steve says; but the porthole is good enough to check for leaks or tighten the connections. We never use the caddy so it's a bit of an eyesore for me, so perhaps someday I'll swap it out for something else. Biggest issue with those hatches is that they're darned expensive. I'm interested to see what Steve has in mind for his gasket.

With the trailer orders that they have received but have yet to build and deliver, they are well into 1000’s.