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I suspect that if you weighed everything that you've introduced to that vehicle since 2018, you'll find that your payload capacity is full... Andersen hitch 60 pounds Oliver Tongue Weight 600 pounds Two slightly overweight adults and a 100 lb dog 460 pounds Two mountain bikes 60 pounds Mountain bike roof rack 30 pounds These things alone will put you over 1200 pounds. That still gives you almost 400 pounds to play with, but be careful if you are overloaded and have an accident your insurance company could abandon you. Please watch this video, it should open your eyes.

The last time I spoke with the sales manager he told me it was at about 10 months. Compared to Escape's 24 months that sounds almost like next May, wait it is next May.

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No, You have to consider the trailer in the final row as being an equation inside parentheses.

Not exactly, but we are in Tupelo. How 'bout them Dawgs?

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Looking back through all your previous posts in this thread. You stated: "The combined weight of occupants and cargo should not exceed 1408 pounds." I'm not sure where the max tongue weight of 920 pounds comes from. Your tongue weight probably won't be 700 pounds. But it probably will be around 600 pounds give or take. But, your stated calculations are correct.

I've read posts in which composting toilet folks said it would be nice if "...they [could] directed liquid waste into the black water tank instead of the provided plastic container..." I've never read a post that someone said they'd actually done it, although if I had that toilet, I would do it. It doesn't like brain surgery.

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Whenever I'm asked this question, my first response is to ask what type of camping do you plan to do. If the answer is "we plan to always stay in established campground with full hookups", I advise them to go with the least expensive battery system even going so far as to forego the solar option unless they are worried about resale value. On the other hand, if the response is "we want to boondock as much as possible" my answer is to buy the best battery system you can afford and definitely get the solar system. We do a lot of boondocking. If I were buying a new trailer today, my choice would be Lithium. My way of thinking is that I would eventually end up with them anyway so why wait. Oliver offered a lithium option for the first time in 2021 and the majority of current owners never had an opportunity to choose so what we all did is a moot point. Prior to that the best choice was AGM's. Many of our AGM systems have reached the end of their life (ours lasted seven years) and we have switched to Lithium's. If expense is an issue, choose the AGM's, otherwise buy the biggest lithium package you can afford. It goes without saying that in either case you have to have the solar option as well, but I said it anyway in case you didn't know.

The amp draw is determined by the appliance that is being used. If it is a small 12 volt fan it might be taking an amp or two out of the batteries. If you were trying to run a small electric heater using your inverter it might be drawing 100 amps. The batteries will only output what is needed for a given situation. It would be virtually impossible to have enough things on at the same time to draw a continuous 275 amps. I believe the smaller switch would do just fine. And, BTW, don't try running an electric heater using your inverter and batteries, they will be dead-dead in an hour or so.

But it won't decrease the tongue weight as it applies to reaching your max cargo carrying capacity. It transfers part of the weight to the front axle, but the total tongue weight is the same.

All trailers have a "phantom" power drain. There are things that are "on" even if they are turned off. All the little idiot lights on the USB chargers and the radio for instance. Our trailer (Hull #050) has a phantom draw of about 0.5 amps. That means that every day about 12 amps of power disappear from the batteries. In our case, starting with batteries at 100%, 28 days with no power input x 12 amps a day would drain 336 amps from our battery bank. We have 3 x 100aH Lithium's. As you can see we would be dead dead long before 28 days were up. You state that yours started at 35%. What you don't say is the size of your battery bank (number of total aH). But even if you had Oliver's largest system (630aH) at 35% they would have only lasted (using our trailer as an example) 18 days. Luckily, your lithium batteries were not damaged by their lack of charging, AGM's would be a different story. How do you normally keep your batteries charged?

John, don't you just love starting an easy project and then creating more work for yourself...

Based on your supplied numbers, you have the capacity for 368 more pounds of cargo in your vehicle. Be careful, it won't take long to get there. I would not try to shift weight from the vehicle to the trailer since you're already so close to your max tow rating.

The possible addition of bunk beds has been cussed and discussed hundreds of times by both owners and the factory. To the best of my knowledge, no one has ever come up with a workable solution. Personally, I think it is a great idea and if you can figure out a feasible way to accomplish this, I'm sure Oliver would be interested in seeing it.

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Nice work, very impressive. If I'd have known you were about to tackle this difficult job, I would have loaned you my trained octopus. She can reach anywhere from several different directions at the same time.

Personally, I'd go with option #3. You get the trailer you really want and you get to keep the truck you already own. You will be able to use the combination and see how it meets your needs. If not, then you can see about getting a bigger truck. If I were traveling single with the EII, I would get the setup of one rear bed opposite a sitting area (couch like).

Remember that the weight of everything you've added to the vehicle or put into the vehicle comes out of the cargo carrying capacity (CCC). i.e. for two adults, between 300 and 400 pounds or whatever your actually weigh. The tongue weight of the trailer, easily 500-600 pounds for the EII. Those two things will usually eat up about half of the CCC. Then there's everything else, cell phones, pets, all your camping gear, clothes not stored in the trailer, the hitch and ball you put into the receiver. This includes literally everything that was not attached to the car when you picked it up new.

That's your gross vehicle weight rating and is not the information you're looking for. Look for the tire sticker and it will have a line that says ..."the weight of occupants and cargo should not exceed xxxx pounds" This is your cargo carrying capacity.

My sister in law and her husband had an r-pod. They thought it was cute. Until all the problems started with it. They got rid of it. I wouldn't recommend one.

There is a 2008 model (Hull # 024) being advertised on facebook right now for $37,500, It originally sold for $27,924. How's that for holding its value?

On average, a fully loaded Elite II will weigh in at 6000 pounds or more. Personally, I'd consider a 6600 pound towing capacity extremely marginal. Plus, your cargo carrying capacity would be very limited as the tongue weight of the Oliver will be about 600 pounds. All that said, it would easily handle the weight of the Elite and be a reasonably good tow vehicle for it. Many owners are towing with a 2500 3/4 ton diesel vehicle. Some are even using 3500 1 ton vehicle. At the end of the day, you're gonna need a bigger truck for an Elite II.