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Never considered it, but for the record we have the Fiama brand and rarely if ever use it. Too much of a PITA to deal with. If you go through with it would love to hear your experiences in changing.

We don’t watch TV even when at home, let alone camping. Yanked ours out within the first few months of ownership. Agree with @Wandering Sagebrush the Furion products are crap. It would take a deeply troubled mind to invent a system so difficult to use. Same goes for the Furion audio system, never use it more trouble than its worth.

I have never installed mine mainly because it worked flawlessly without it. However with new truck that is supposed to recognize a TPMS system I have yet to get it to do that. Thinking maybe I should install it to see if that helps. Be nice to have it within the trucks system vs having a monitor on the dashboard.

Mine came with one, but only purchased it a couple of years ago, so apparently the more recent editions have changed with what is included.

Good grief this is quite a story and horrible experience. Glad you made it through unscathed. May I ask what tires (LT or ST and or brand) you have or had on your Oliver? PSI setting? I can't imagine what would cause so many tire failures in such rapid succession. To answer your questions I suspect you will receive a variety of different answers but I do not carry a jack along and use the built in electric leveling jacks if needed for an emergency. Oliver no longer recommends this but people have been doing it for years. If I were to bring an extra jack it would be a bottle jack stacked on platforms if needed. I have used bottle jacks directly under those plates exactly where the tech used his jack. BTW looking at those rubber grommets on you shocks they seem over tightened and cracking pretty bad. Might want to consider replacing those too. I have an impact wrench which makes for quick work with tire and wheel work but have never carried it along on trips, though I have thought about it for this very reason. Perhaps I should reconsider this. Good luck getting this all figured out.

An ambitious project! Good luck

Have you @Rivernerd ever considered the system linked below. It's not a hitch mount which personally I don't care for although I do own the original 1UP double hitch rack but rarely if ever use it. The Ride 88 truck bed mounts are really well engineered and made, which assumes you do not object to placing bikes in the truck bed. I prefer it myself. It does take up some storage room and unless you use a soft cover roll up tonneau will not work with most if not all hard tonneaus but can be implemented with topper shells. The system seems to be very reasonably priced too, far less expensive than most hitch mount systems once you factor in the Oliver hitch receiver. We have carried our road bikes and kayaks doubled up in the truck bed for years, but now that we are transitioning to trail/mountain biking the Ride 88 system seems to be the best I've seen yet. https://www.ride88.com/toyota-tundra

Until now I have never heard of nor seen curly cable safety chains. Had to look it up to see WTH this was about. Our Ollie #70 came with traditional linked chains but after implementing the Andersen hitch they were too short. Went to the local farm and ranch supply store to purchase a longer set which ended up being considerably heavier duty and also heavier to boot. A mixed blessing I guess. Really appreciate @topgun2 explanation on why one should cross their cables which makes total sense, but never bothered to investigate the reason.

Love the idea of induction cooktop for a litany of different reasons. As mentioned they are way more energy efficient. A few years ago we incorporated an induction range into our house after having a gas version for decades. Neither of us would ever go back to gas much preferring induction. The amount of control one has over the heating range is on orders of magnitude better and far more precise. It's nearly impossible to turn a gas cooktop down enough for slow simmers or any type of slow cooking too even with the use of diffusers, with induction it is a piece of cake to do this. As someone else mentioned it also provides addition work space when not using the burners, if you could actually call them that. There is no pollutants within the trailer either or our house for that matter, no issues with ignition at cold temps and high altitudes something we constantly encounter. Cutting to the chase I applaud Oliver for providing this feature! The only downside I can think of is the need for "possibly" more Li-ON battery and a large at least 2000 watt inverter, both which adds to the cost of admission for induction, but offset somewhat by fewer propane bottle refills. We look at gas cooktops propane or natural gas is a severely outdated technology, belonging in the 20th century dust bin.

We have run into this issue a few times but only on very rough back country roads, ie BLM or USFS roads. Typically before traveling down these types of roads I will take all 3 off their mounts and lay on the king bed in the back. To my way of thinking the clips seem like a poor connection method for this type of application anyway. Seems to me a better method might be a long run of velcro across the bottom, either that or some extremely strong neodymium magnets. I have seen this type of magnet so strong it's virtually impossible to pull apart. Just a thought or two

Correct the X22 series was discontinued a couple years ago, and seemed to have expanded their lineup since. They now have a Sport, Explore and Outback series both in single axle (X145) and double axle (X195) although they are really not axles in the truest sense of the word. Their claim is to withstand -40º below zero. The day I looked into them it was well into the 90's on an intense sunny day but they felt quite comfortable inside, considerably more so than the Oliver, it was quite obvious. Their options include a massive solar array and battery storage. Had never heard of those batteries and they are technically very different than most others but also extremely expensive. The salesman said you could end up paying $30K + or - just for the solar/battery setup. Too rich for my blood but it was impressive.

Awesome. The only time we have been there was in our younger years with pre-teen daughter tent camping. Loved the park. Wind picked up that night and I swear it was like having a freight train running right through the campground. Wife and I were up in the middle of the night literally holding the tent up from the inside before it came apart. Daughter slept right through the entire thing.

@FloraFauna I do understand your thoughts between the two, Oliver and IO trailers. I was told by our local dealer, yes we have one in Bozeman, that you cannot use a WDH with their trailers but he didn't go into great detail explaining why. Looking at the massive size of the frames though would most likely eliminate most if not all of the WDH on the market. It's interesting most of the photos and videos illustrate half ton pickups towing these things. And on one of their videos a guy explains the issues with a WDH and stress and torque it applies to the ball joint while the CR Master hitch does not do this. Of course none of this addresses the limits of a tow vehicle's hitch weight and load carry capacity. I didn't mind the beds at all, don't carry for the dry flush toilet, love the windows, suspension and just about everything else. They are ugly enough that no one will ever ask for a tour in one though. The off roading is truly what appeals to me and frustrates me about the Oliver. While I have traveled down many BLM and Forest Service roads with our Oliver there is a limit.

To me it’s sort of like comparing apples to oranges with the two. I have never thought of the Base Camp as an off road camper let along an overlander or anything near that. I do agree with many of this guy’s assessments on both though. Clearly Oliver has made many excellent improvements compared to my much older #70 which seems crude in many ways by comparison. But if I were starting over with a new trailer now it would be hands down an Imperial Outdoors. I have been in these campers and absolutely nothing I have ever seen comes close to the build quality or engineering of these off road overlanders. They are not particularly attractive from the outside, the interior however is awesome and well manicured and crafted. https://imperial-outdoors.com

They began production again in 2014. Surprised there was an E2 as far back as 2010 though, don't recall ever hearing about that one.