Recent content by Chasingopenspaces

Think you’re probably right generally, a lot of boutique manufacturers going to have some trouble. I know of two mountain bike companies that have bit the dust in the last couple months already, similar spending category/the first thing people cut from the budget when going gets tough. I hope...

For sure, I was looking everywhere for this type of info before I decided on what camper to buy. Yeah overall it’s put together really well, at the end of the day I think all trailers have issues and need repairs. I’m rough on my toys and have two young kids who are rough on things too

Lastly, was on an extended washboard and then rough dirt road earlier this month and found the water filter had popped off. Honestly I’m surprised it took this long as it’s pretty heavy when full and apparently only attached by three screws. Wondering if the newer EOS uses this same attachment...

Also the dinette backs are coming off, screws stripped as well. I decided to attach aluminum plate there as well using adhesive and then will re-screw it on. I think the main culprit for this failure is all the Velcro they used to attach the cushions. It requires a significant amount of force to...

camper is approaching 5 years old and no longer new. Some wear and tear showing up, support leg for turning dinette into a bed stripped the screws out of thin aluminum. I welded some thicker 1/8” thick aluminum plate on and retapped them. Hopefully that will hold up a bit longer

Not familiar with those trails but do have a family of four and a bóreas EOS. We don’t take it on true rock crawling style routes, not sure that we could. We do camp off grid about half the time, and this trailer lets us not worry too much about forest service roads/fire roads as we are...

I don’t think so, I have side windows as well from them and the latching mechanism is totally different and seems much more fool proof. The skylight didn’t seem to me an equivalent quality compared to their other offerings. I agree regarding skylights. In general, the less holes in the roof the...

Last few weeks was a little rough on this camper. We had 65+ mph winds and the roof hatch from tern overland was not up to the task. Have been having issues with the struts for awhile now and they were repeatedly popping on and off. Unfortunately the hatch was perpendicular to the wind and I...

ha! good point. I do not like the empty battery spot either

thanks for this, super helpful. Sounds like the geny would have to run for more than an hour or two.

Couple quick overnights into the Nevada desert. Spec in the middle of the first pic is our campers.

Upped the power bank to 300 Ah in total. Hoping that should be enough with the solar for our 3-7 day trips. Otherwise can’t decide on a 4th battery or just giving in and buying a small generator. Anyone have an idea of how quickly a 2000w generator will recharge 300 Ah of batteries? I’m...

Finished the windscreen. didn’t come out quite as I expected but calling it good for now.

Newest project is building a cover and windscreen for the stove. Ours didn’t come with #1 like the final model dead initially didn’t think it would be a big deal but can barely boil water in the wind currently. Almost done just have to add the hinges and a strap to keep it all from rattling on...