Redfour5
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At a decent price, you get the "sky breaker." It is lifted as in an "axle flip" giving you around the same clearance as a Gladiator off road tires and you could get somewhere. My wife has a Cherokee with the tow package and the V6 and is always talking about wanting a travel trailer she could pull (4500 max tow/900 tongue). PLUS, she has "requirements" with the first being a dry bath. Well, real quick there is virtually nothing out there... and "tear drops" ain't happenin.
Well, good luck... then last year I saw that Bish's had brought out an amazing trailer at 2300 dry weight and 3500 max. AND it has a dry bath. And with 30 gallon tanks, you could do around one shower a day. My wife gets the shower. I rough it sponge bath or swim. I also suggest one of the small Rhino portable gray water tanks you can lift into the back of the gladiator to add another day of camping as long as you got water to fill the fresh tank. One person can do a 15 gallon version. Two can easily do the 21 gallon versions. ONLY buy Rhino portable tanks. I've done all the R and D over the years and got dirty so you don't have to. I've seem then as cheap as 110 on sale.
A 30 gallon black tank makes the bathroom end of things quite doable for four or five days two people. Oh, and it sleeps up to "six." Well, if they are all kids I suppose... But four definitely with a little work changing out the dinette at night. The way they did it was by going back to the "hybrid" approach which I've always kept an open mind to going back to my pop up days 20 years ago. Hybrids with the hanging bed outside is really nice and essentially expands your floor space. Further, this thing has suprisingly good storage including pulling down that bunk in front as storage. I'm impressed.
And so, And relatively inexpensively. If financing with decent credit, you could get into it for a hundre(ish) bucks a month. Understand you finance for like 120 to 140 months on these to get payments down so IF cash flow is an issue you do that. Then later pay off early or just ride it for two or three years till you are ready to move up and hope to break roughly even. I think these will do that or a slight upside down. But a hundred a month is how I got into a hard side unit in 2017. It worked out great.
I've also seen a couple of others copying it. I know one thing that makes some people nervous is the side air conditioner. I had one on a 2017 Aspen Trail that frankly I ended up loving. The advantage of the side airco's is that they don't cost a thousand bucks and can be replaced for as little as 150 bucks at the end of a hardware store summer sale... AND can be installed by a handy person. But mine went three years, no problems kept things quite cool. The negatives on the side airco are people complaining that it drains into the camper. Well, yes it will if you have the camper leaning so the water comes back in. The key is to always ensure that you are just a skosh low on the one side, just barely and NEVER high on the airco side. Then it is never a problem...at least in my three years with one.
The other negative is that it has a 12 volt fridge that frankly is not supported by the 12 volt battery system. IF you are going to go off grid, I"d likely put a couple of 100AH lithium ion batts up front and well rated ones are now as low as 150 bucks each and they are like a third of the weight of lead acid. I'd also have a small generator like a 2200 unit along with solar whether you install more on top but also a 110 or so on the side. You get up to 300 watts, and that would likely power the fridge along with periodic generator charging/airco use.
Another advantage of the small air conditioner is that the small generator will work with it from experience. But, IF you've camped a while for two to three days, I'd just get block ice and use the fridge like a big cooler... The guy who sells these in the video says flat out they would use a two way gas/elec but the last company to make them at scale has really gone out of business and now your choices are 12 volt or 12 volt... Heck I camped for well over a decade basically doing the cooler routine. I and apparently "go lite" really wish someone still made a decent two way gas electric fridge, but that ship has sailed...
Take it from a 40 year camper starting in a tent, then a pop up with a Subaru and finally a 30 footer with all the bells and whistles. This thing has potential for someone on a smaller budget but adventurous partner and a Gladiator. LIke I said it appears a couple of other company's have copied this floor plan also. Kudos to Go Lite. And frankly, it beats the heck out of a teardrop if you want to first stand up in your camper, and have a few bells and whistles...at roughly the same price.
So, the unit is pretty basic but you do get a "dry bath." and a decent "light" off road package at a decent price.
Well, good luck... then last year I saw that Bish's had brought out an amazing trailer at 2300 dry weight and 3500 max. AND it has a dry bath. And with 30 gallon tanks, you could do around one shower a day. My wife gets the shower. I rough it sponge bath or swim. I also suggest one of the small Rhino portable gray water tanks you can lift into the back of the gladiator to add another day of camping as long as you got water to fill the fresh tank. One person can do a 15 gallon version. Two can easily do the 21 gallon versions. ONLY buy Rhino portable tanks. I've done all the R and D over the years and got dirty so you don't have to. I've seem then as cheap as 110 on sale.
A 30 gallon black tank makes the bathroom end of things quite doable for four or five days two people. Oh, and it sleeps up to "six." Well, if they are all kids I suppose... But four definitely with a little work changing out the dinette at night. The way they did it was by going back to the "hybrid" approach which I've always kept an open mind to going back to my pop up days 20 years ago. Hybrids with the hanging bed outside is really nice and essentially expands your floor space. Further, this thing has suprisingly good storage including pulling down that bunk in front as storage. I'm impressed.
And so, And relatively inexpensively. If financing with decent credit, you could get into it for a hundre(ish) bucks a month. Understand you finance for like 120 to 140 months on these to get payments down so IF cash flow is an issue you do that. Then later pay off early or just ride it for two or three years till you are ready to move up and hope to break roughly even. I think these will do that or a slight upside down. But a hundred a month is how I got into a hard side unit in 2017. It worked out great.
I've also seen a couple of others copying it. I know one thing that makes some people nervous is the side air conditioner. I had one on a 2017 Aspen Trail that frankly I ended up loving. The advantage of the side airco's is that they don't cost a thousand bucks and can be replaced for as little as 150 bucks at the end of a hardware store summer sale... AND can be installed by a handy person. But mine went three years, no problems kept things quite cool. The negatives on the side airco are people complaining that it drains into the camper. Well, yes it will if you have the camper leaning so the water comes back in. The key is to always ensure that you are just a skosh low on the one side, just barely and NEVER high on the airco side. Then it is never a problem...at least in my three years with one.
The other negative is that it has a 12 volt fridge that frankly is not supported by the 12 volt battery system. IF you are going to go off grid, I"d likely put a couple of 100AH lithium ion batts up front and well rated ones are now as low as 150 bucks each and they are like a third of the weight of lead acid. I'd also have a small generator like a 2200 unit along with solar whether you install more on top but also a 110 or so on the side. You get up to 300 watts, and that would likely power the fridge along with periodic generator charging/airco use.
Another advantage of the small air conditioner is that the small generator will work with it from experience. But, IF you've camped a while for two to three days, I'd just get block ice and use the fridge like a big cooler... The guy who sells these in the video says flat out they would use a two way gas/elec but the last company to make them at scale has really gone out of business and now your choices are 12 volt or 12 volt... Heck I camped for well over a decade basically doing the cooler routine. I and apparently "go lite" really wish someone still made a decent two way gas electric fridge, but that ship has sailed...
Take it from a 40 year camper starting in a tent, then a pop up with a Subaru and finally a 30 footer with all the bells and whistles. This thing has potential for someone on a smaller budget but adventurous partner and a Gladiator. LIke I said it appears a couple of other company's have copied this floor plan also. Kudos to Go Lite. And frankly, it beats the heck out of a teardrop if you want to first stand up in your camper, and have a few bells and whistles...at roughly the same price.
So, the unit is pretty basic but you do get a "dry bath." and a decent "light" off road package at a decent price.
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