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Landrover's mod has been high on my mod list since the day I brought ILOVHER home. Imitation is a genuine form of flattery they say! I have a sewer clean out near my driveway and I really wanted to be able to run grey into it while keeping the door shut and locked. I have a few tools/cords that I don't want to walk off. Keeping the door open while raining also seems counterintuitive. I admit to showering in the trailer and driveway camp as we get frequent power outages here. Something that I was worried about was exact measuring. I came up with an idea to use a pencil eraser super glued to the middle of the handle. I added bit of chalk line chalk to hit the inside of the door to find center. I'm happy to say it worked well! Attached are the photos of my progress. I'm a girl and these kind of things freak me out a little but I'm happy to say everything worked out perfect! I used butyl tape around the marine fitting and stainless screws and nylocks nuts. I decided to paint the handle silver as well since the shortening and grinding of the handle (with a Dremel) made it look ugly. I'm really pleased with this mod.. THANK You Landrover!

I can see where this would be a problem and I'm glad you pointed it out. Some of the time, I see these mounted the other way around and that is definitely a problem. So the protective cover needs a protective cover. Hmmmm, this could go on forever...

We picked our Ollie up last Thursday 8/5/21. After an excellent walkthrough by Hannah we got u/w for Davey Crockett site 67 where we spent 5 nights. Based on others forum posts i figured to test everything and if a problem arose i would be close to the factory. Well, no problems 861 was in excellent shape, as i expected😊. I have been reading these forms constantly since i first started thinking about buying one. They have been invaluable to me. Too many to name individually, especially for fear I would forget someone, but lots of great advise and suggestion are available for anyone willing to read. Thanks alot to all you who contribute. On our way home in Florida, but looks like TS Fred will change our schedule😂. For info the pickup is a Ram 2500 with the 6.4 Hemi. I started to get the Cummings but after realizing the cargo was equal to a half ton around 1500 lbs where as this one was 3002 lbs. To me that was a game changer as i don’t expect to live long enough to wear out a diesel. Dewey

John, A 3/4 ton truck with a diesel is far from an overkill. In fact you will find it to be the ideal tow vehicle for an LE2. Steve

Thanks. All well and good, I think I have seen that page before, but the specs are for steel wheels. Alloys usually have a lower recommended figure. John Davies Spokane WA

Great news and great pictures! Glad it’s going so well, enjoy your journey home. Hope to meet you out on the road somewhere! Mike

Greetings from Anchorage, Alaska; We have been searching for a "travel" vehicle for the past few years, camper, van, trailer, but not a tent. (Been there done that.) I stumbled upon the Oliver website, joined this forum and have read countless posts by current Ollie owners and I think we have found our dream traveler. The only BIG problem is that living and owning an Oliver in Alaska is quite rare. The only Ollie I have seen in Alaska is last week while my wife and I were driving between Savage River and Teklanika River campgrounds in Denali National Park. Imagine my surprise to see an older Oliver Elite being towed by a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck 30 miles into Denali National Park. We were not able to stop to chat, but it was pretty cool to actually see an Oliver in Alaska. However, we want to experience areas in the Lower 48 where most Ollie owners live and travel. This means a 4,000+ mile journey to and from the Pacific Northwest or Montana before and after our exploring with an Ollie. (I have driven cars, trucks and a Born Free motorhome to Alaska many times since 1974 and loved the journey each and every trip.) Our kids and grandkids also live in Alaska and we would love to go camping with them durning our short, but intense Alaskan summers. An Ollie should allow us to travel "The roads less traveled" here in Alaska and explore durning the fall and spring in the lower 48. Sorry for the long post, but we are semi struggling with ordering an Oliver trailer that will spend a lot of time enduring the weather and Mother Nature events of Alaska. Also concerned about the thousands of miles of wear and tear on an Ollie traveling the Alcan highway on a yearly basis. Any thoughts, comments or alternative ideas from current Oliver owners? We will be here in Anchorage until October 8, when we head to Maui for some R & R, so if any Ollie owners who make it to the Anchorage area in the next few months, we would love to meet you, (and your Ollie!) Since this is my first post, I am not sure if someone can PM or contact us, but I'm sure someone will lead us in the right direction. Thanks for reading our rather long post, and I look forward to any replies regarding owning an Ollie in Alaska. AlaskaGreg

https://jalopnik.com/winnebago-made-a-flying-rv-that-camped-where-no-other-r-1847458400 Imagine the maintenance needed to keep a helicopter with a 1300 bhp radial piston engine operating. Safely…. The turbine option would definitely be my choice. And I would no longer need to bring along my gas leaf blower to clear the pine needles and dirt away from the site. John Davies Spokane WA

Quiet, safe, inexpensive, simple to operate, and great for the environment. It’s the perfect camper. When I was a kid I’d always see the Popular Mechanics magazines on the shelf and wonder why our family didn’t have a subscription. Then I’d thumb through one and answer that question.

Thank you all for your valuable input on my Touareg tow vehicle. We have decided to purchase a 2021 Ram 2500 Cummings for payload and safety reasons, I know it is a little over kill and we are ok with that. Hopefully mpg will not be that bad. We will keep our Touareg as it has been a great car and Volkswagen has been very good to us with all the emissions issues they had, This Forum Group is the best! Hope to see you on the road and meet up in mid Sept. Travel on.

We bought one; attached it to the tongue (we don't have the storage basket) with zip ties, to see how it worked. My husband doesn't like that the holder fills up with road dirt while traveling. Unless you wash it out before storing the plug, the dirt transfers to the plug. He thinks there are better ways to store the plug and protect it from the elements.

Yep, had bugs living in my 7 pin plug . this was the catalyst for me to get a plug storage cover. this option is a no drill solution that installs with worm screws that tighten the bands around your front jack. takes 5 minutes the install. its clean and works well https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MFFC0IU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Click image to open expanded view

People sometimes do not like to change to something new to them, like a composting toilet. Being somewhat of a nature person, I am glad to have my composting toilet. 1. Saves empting the ugly black water tank contents and using rubber gloves during that operation. 2. Empting the pee tank is not a problem for me. There is always a CG flush to pour it in or the CG dump station. 3. If you remember In the old days outhouses were the norm and the composting toilet is a outgrowth of that technology. 4. Saving fresh water is important. Look at those folks in the west desert areas. With the drought, they will be running out of water at their homes. 5. Only problem I have is using up the natural resource .... Peat Moss. I am glad I have the composting toilet. To make the wife happier (and myself), I purchased a wooden squatty potty step (which I modified to get it closer to the toilet) it is easier to have your feet on this instead of farther down on the shower floor.

When I first got the Ollie, I used to raise the RV, when attached to the TV, with the trailer jack to put some slack in the chains as others have said above. This did not work all the time and I usually had to loosen the chains connected to the whale tale and then retighten the chains after hooking up. Now before hooking up to the trailer, I raise the trailer bull dog up high enough so I can back up (the 2" ball) past the bull connector of the trailer. This gives plenty of slack in the chains so I can hook up the whale tale with no problem. I then slowly drive the TV forward enough to when the chains are tight and I can then lower the trailer onto the 2" ball.

I have a 7 pin plug holder mount on the front of the storage box which I do not use. The previous owner told me a no cost option. Tuck the 7 pin plug in between the fiberglass shell in front of the propane tanks and the frame of the trailer (the fiberglass shell is the one you can see in FrankC's picture.) This location works great, the plug stays in place and no moisture or water gets into the plug.

This page is from the Dexter Axle Manual. Mossey

Thanks John. That was very useful. I can see now that the Ollie will do either boondocking or full hook up very well. Everyone on the forum has been very helpful. I am getting my option list figured out. I think next month we will be ready to order.

Mine is mounted vertically also. Keeps water out, and no problems with plug retention.

Not all sites have full hookups, especially in the West and in National Parks and Monuments. Do not expect to have that convenience everywhere you go….. There are a number of different products, you can use these two with a 3/4” garden hose to drain the grey tank into the sewer opening. In some western states, when primitive boondocking in the desert, it is acceptable, but not actually legal, to run the hose away from the site and under a sage brush. Let it trickle over a few hours to prevent erosion! I have not used that second item, but i use the first and it works most excellently! The four ears are way more secure than the two ears on the Valterra version, those snap off if you look at it wrong. But buy a second Camco one as a spare, regardless. Alternately, just use the big 3” stinky hose that comes with the Ollie, it works fine for just grey water, though it is bulky and you must add a support thingy to allow it to drain properly. Or go out ocassionally and lift it up to get the trapped water to flow out. For a black tank with, errr, solids, you must wait until the tank is full, then drain it in a big rush, followed by a rinse, or all that yucky stuff will remain in the low spots. John Davies Spokane WA

Not exactly sure what you are referring to as the site drain? Only thing you could drain into is a sewer outlet. If you do have a sewer outlet, you can get a sewer cap that has a hose outlet on it. Onto that you can use a garden hose to the outlet. Would recommend a different color than your drinking hose. Then just open your gray water hose only, but it will drain through the gray water tank.. OK, back up..I noted you have a tent trailer, and hence probably not gray tank. There probably might be a gray water hookup there somewhere. Maybe best to go to your brand tent trailer web somewhere, and ask there. Should be pretty basic...

Send a note to Jason Essary through the service ticket system.

The blue tape is for protection during manufacture, the same can be said for the white peel-off film on the cabinet doors, which may be mirrored. Plus the taped down foam pads on the horizontal surfaces. As are the production workers and other trailers visible through the windows, that is a pretty strong strong hint that this is on the production line, not in storage. 🙂 BTW "Mouse" has those ugly yellow frames, I hate them but not enough to replace them, maybe one day I will coat them with Krylon Fusion All-In-One https://www.krylon.com/products/fusion-allinone/ in a color that coordinates better with my interior colors. It might require completely disassembling them, and I am not sure it is worth the effort. How well would a vinyl wrap work? John Davies Spokane WA

Howdy! I'm thinking of jumping ship from our 2019 21' Escape to Ollie. We had the twin beds in Casita and loved it, but our current Escape has a queen bed which I don't love. Plus, want more of a 3 season trailer for winter camping. Guess I need to contact sales to see how long it takes to make one. scott

Howdy Scott, there are a number of jumpers here that are now in Oliver’s. Welcome! If you have any questions or concerns you’re in the right place. Mike

The settings inside the inverter are dependent on the type of batteries, number of batteries, incoming AC power, and how it is used. Below is a link to the Xantrex Inverter Settings article for best setup. You may find that some settings require a change as not everyone uses their camper in the same way but we have reviewed these settings and set them based on majority rule and least amount of callbacks for issues. You may have to change some of the settings based on your current location, current shore power connection, or if you make a change to your battery bank. https://support.olivertraveltrailers.com/portal/en/kb/articles/xantrex-inverter-settings If you need assistance changing your settings please contact the Oliver service department. If you are able to download the Xantrex App and Bluetooth connect to the inverter remote it is much easier to change the settings. How to connect via Bluetooth is included in the article link above.

When we wanted to buy a used Ollie, they were selling for almost full price within a few days of being listed. So we decided that we would buy a new one, enjoy getting to choose all our options, and if trailer camping didn't turn out to be for us we were confident that we would recoup almost all of our investment. We have had our Ollie for 9 months and are truly enjoying it.

Thank you ALL for responding, and so quickly! I’m very grateful. Our latest trailer, a 2020 K-Z we just bought last fall, is in the shop waiting for a prognosis after I found the ceiling insulation saturated and brown water running along the ceiling panel joints. It’s so discouraging. This is the third trailer we’ve had with major issues. I just want quality. A company that takes pride in what they build. If it does or doesn’t go back to the factory for the repairs, which will include replacement of delaminating roof decking, I think it’s gone. I almost am ready to quit camping all together. We have two kids in college. Both still want to camp. I’m thankful, but no Oliver really accommodate four adults, and while I’m 6’-5”, my son is 6’-4”. I am so fed up with garbage quality I’m considering the Oliver for the DW and I, and finding a good used pop-up for my son to drag along if he wants to camp. I know the Oliver will last me another 30 years of camping, and my kids will fight over it. I’m so impressed with the details. My son and I are engineers. We agree that the Oliver is close to what we’d design if we were building a trailer… a dream we have, but not a reality. The fit and finish, the details, the lack of points for water and rodent entry, the ease of maintenance, the materials, etc. all add to the list. My wife is not taking part in the $65k plus cost, but I told her in the next 30 years, we’ll go through three stick and tin trailers just because of the poor build quality, harsh Midwest weather, and it sitting outside… but only one Oliver. I’m not winning, but then again, I am the one who deals with the problems. No one else sees the problems. They just camp.

John TY TY TY, I was looking for something along this line. Especially the 2 & 3 Tabs. Maggie said we could $ave Money by buying an Oliver, and now i will track it and show here how much we will be $aving... I too will keep a paper log... which is an empty printout of the TAB, and i will fill it in each day. when we eventually return home, then i will transfer it to excel.

Hello, Potential New Members, We love adding new members, and hearing new ideas. However, we have had an enormous number of sp @ mmers who have tried to join our forum over the last several months, and we have had to resort to individualized approval before you can be allowed to post. If you are, indeed, a real person, you can gain membership much more readily by choosing a "real" name... something easily recognizable, in English, as a name, nickname, or "handle". If you choose an obscure combination of random vowels and consonants, with, perhaps a number, your application will in all likelihood, be deleted. Why? Because all our moderators are volunteers (read, unpaid), and we just don't have time to figure out if a weird combination of vowels and consonants is a person. Seriously. No offense. We'd love to have you come and hang out, and have some fun, but we also like to think that you are here to do that, and not spread sp @ m. Thanks in advance. Sherry