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Hi Snowlakemike My wife and I have are on our way home from our trip to several of the National Parks in Montana and Wyoming. We have been on the road this trip for about three months so far and are now headed home to Florida. We are stopping in Hohenwald on the way home for a minor repair on Monday, August 29th. I hope my wife and I get a chance to meet you. We would be glad to answer any questions you might have. I have had an opportunity to meet most of the Oliver family members and many of the Oliver employees. I think my wife and I both agree that the Olivers are all about service and quality. I'd also go as far as to say that the Oliver family and the Oliver Travel Trailer employees are some of the most ethical people that I have ever had the pleasure to deal with. Not sure who you plan to be meeting with on Monday, but hope we can connect sometime during the day. We will be back and forth between the sales office and the plant as the repair is being made. Hap and my wife AKA 'THE BOSS"

Thanks for the picture - there is always more than one way to do everything. Quick Connects are really great to make connecting water lines to the Oliver trailer easier. Personally, I prefer the Home Depot Garden Hose Quick-Connect Kits. They fit neatly onto my trailer and are made out of solid brass for durability. Just my opinion. Also when I get home in a couple of weeks I'm definitely going to give Buzzy's variation on the sewer connection a serious look. I learn something every time I read the comments on this forum. Sometimes in Florida - but now we are in Dodge City, Kansas meandering back to Florida. Who turned on the heat? Two days ago in Wyoming we were having morning temps of 36 degrees. I think it hit 100 in Dodge today. Hap

Hi Robert We have the stock Dometic installed on our Legacy Elite II at the factory and have had really good luck with it. We also carry a moderate size Yeti in the back of the pickup. It is more of a convenience for us and not a necessity, but we like having it to carry more cold food and drink items. We have the large solar panel on the trailer with 4 AGM batteries and a 2000 watt inverter. We run the fridge on DC while traveling with no problems. We turn the gas off at the tanks when traveling - we learned that lesson because of a very bad wreck that we had with another brand of RV. We do a lot of boon docking and after setting up our trailer, the first thing that we do is switch the fridge over to gas even when we are getting direct sun light. The fridge just draws to much energy to leave it on solar. We do have a 3000 watt generator and feel that a generator is a necessity for us because of the amount of boon docking that we do. We depend on our solar a lot and a great deal of the time we need the generator only rarely, but we feel that a generator and a gas fridge is absolutely necessary because of the amount of boon docking that we do in shady state and federal parks with no services, and of course at Walmart when we are on long trips pressing across country. Don't forget solar is limited on overcast and rainy days. Sorry that I can't answer the technical details for you. I'm the type of guy that just knows that you flip the switch and it works. Thank goodness there are some others on this forum who love to dig deep into the details of why it works. Hap

I've used several hoses for our Oliver. I threw the Rhino hose in the trash can and bought a Valterra D04-0450 Viper 15' Sewer Hose Kit from Amazon. You can get it either at Amazon or Camping World. I also bought a 10 foot Valterra extension hose and attached it. Now I have a 25 foot sewer hose that stays permanently attached to the Oliver until I take it off when I get home for cleaning. I have never had the Valterra pull apart like the Rhino. Unfortunately the part that goes into the sewer hole will not fit into the rear bumper compartment so I just detach it and keep it in a breadbox in the rear storage compartment until needed. If you do a little research, you will find out why the Valterra is much harder to pull apart than the Rhino which scared hell out of me every time I used it. For water hose and black tank hook up, I bought from Home Depot three Garden Hose Quick-Connect Kits. They cost about $7 each. I screwed the male ends into water connections on the trailer black tank, city water, and water tank connections and leave them permanently attached to the trailer. I leave the female connected to trailer male section until I start to use it, then disconnect the female - screw it onto the water hose, then reattach it to the trailer, then turn water on. The Quick-Connects make using water lines very, very easy. When traveling, I screw the black dust caps onto the Quick Connects. I'm sure your quite confused by my pitiful attempt to explain all of this, but if you purchase the Quick Connects and play with them for a few minutes you'll get the idea. Can't make any suggestions for rainy days other than to say that in 2013, we bought a new 40 foot Tiffin diesel pusher which we had for about seven months, until a very large semi totaled us. We bought an Oliver Legacy Elite II and have traveled for about 40,000 miles all over this country, including Alaska. Ask the Oliver folks and they will tell you this is true. We loved the very expensive Tiffin, but my wife and I love the Oliver much, much more. Sometimes at our home in Florida but today we are in Wyoming. Hap

Hello all, I agree that the electric jacks on our Oliver Elite Legacy II are great. We do have a pair of Andersen wheel levelers. This is one of those items that we carry that would be immediately replaced if we were to lose one. They are so very easy to use and if we are in a campsite for one or two nights we usually use these instead of the jacks. These are also great when boondocking at places like Walmart where the parking lot is a bit sloped and we need a quick fix to level the trailer. The Ollie is so stable that on an overnighter we don't feel the need to put the jacks down in many cases. If we are in a campsite for a longer period of time, we use the jacks to stabilize the trailer. These levelers are also what we use if we need to level in a campsite where the jacks would lift the trailer off of the ground or almost off of the ground. Another use is when we run into one of those rutted, unkempt dump stations where the front of the trailer is lower than the back. We have on a couple of occasions used these under the pickup's rear tires to get it up a bit higher so the rear of the trailer is lower than the tongue. Just my opinion. Hap Sometimes at home in Florida but now in Tucson, Arizona and soon to be headed west to parts unknown at the present. P.S. The temp got down to 28 last night and the Ollie did great. Last year when we were headed to Alaska, we saw the mid-teens and the Ollie was very comfortable.

We use several but the two that I would hate to do without is www.rvparkreviews.com and "Allstays Pro". Allstays is free but there is a yearly charge for Allstays Pro, but it has so much information that we gladly pay it each year. Since we picked up our Ollie in Hohenwald April 2014, we have traveled over 37,000 miles - to Alaska and back to Florida Keys, then to Colorado and Utah and back to Florida. We have found these two websites to be invaluable during our travels. We have not used the one you mentioned, but we will take a look at that one as well.

My wife and I picked up our 2014 Legacy Elite II 23.5' at the factory last April 1st. We meandered to Washington state and then spent almost three months in Alaska and then back to Florida where we put our trailer in covered storage for a couple of months and then down to the Florida Keys for several weeks. So far we have pulled the Oliver for approximately twenty two thousand miles and love it. May 1st we will be leaving for about five months in Utah and Colorado. Before I hook-up our trailer, I take 0000 steel wool and clean the rust off of the hitch ball which I've been told by a Chevy service manager is the grounding point for the trailer. I keep the trailer in storage with a roof cover, but it does get weather from back and front while stored so I keep the trailer plug in a small plastic bag. Thanks Hap