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Sounds like you're doing a good job with the analysis. One anecdote is not data, but my Big Tree is still going strong at about 210,000 miles. Beyond that, mine is still quite solid and everything on it works. But I'll readily admit that it's not as serious an off-roader as the other two. That...

I appreciate the update. Darrin must be the country's only combination potti seller and shooting range owner. :sombrero: BTW, my own personal tally over the years is 11 Seitz windows usable on receipt, 7 broken. :(

Here's hoping it works out. FWIW, one camper builder I know ordered the minimum from Maygood maybe three years back, which was at the time 10 units. He needed seven for his camper and sold the remaining three on eBay. If I'm remembering correctly, his opinion was that there was no substantial...

Also T@b trailers and a couple of slide-in camper builders. Also, EarthCruiser either uses them or their equivalent, it appears. Let us know how it goes. No one seems to have announced yet whether the "buy a replacement" strategy works. There is another, more current ongoing thread on the...

They drive a little differently but both are fine. The 100, to my mind, commands a bit of a price premium for just being a Hundy. The GX is an old design, but the 100 is older--an early 100 is a four-speed with a 235hp engine. The five-speed is a good thing. The narrowness of the GX is...

I don't own one, but I'm glad you're about to, as it is a very interesting camera. Please let us have your opinions once you form them, as they'd make a difference to my plans.

Yep. Between the windscreen, slider, and one I bought to potentially pull across the front of the potti, they've got a bunch of my money. http://www.dashdesigns.com/content/carsunshades.aspx The silver reflective seems both classy and useful, but if your Astro needs a cheerfulness upgrade...

I'm pleased to learn that I didn't know what I'm talking about. It's starting to sound like the situation has improved enough to have multiple U.S. sources. I don't need a toilet, but next time I go past that Camping World, I'll make an inquiry about getting some of the other stuff. In another...

That is interesting. Thanks for taking the time to post it here.

Well, stone the crows. Darrin and I used to be close friends but lost track of each other a few years back. He'd never spoken very highly of his cows, so I'd have expected him to have left the ranch by now. I'm glad to know RUF is still a going concern. Anyway, if anyone buys from him, tell him...

And a few loose ends . . . We have privacy shades, custom made for T1Ns, that go around the outside of the windshield and front windows. However, it's inarguably easier to use shades that deploy from the inside. A pleated, reflective accordion shade that stores in a fairly innocuous plastic...

Few things are as pitiful as a build thread after the build is completed. It sits around as a lonely and uninteresting couch potato, so boring as to be forgotten even by those closest to it. :) Humor aside, I've have indeed been negligent in not having updated this thread lately, especially...

No harm in trying, but I'd be pretty amazed if Darrin still does that sort of thing. The webpage is from 2004 and the last camper RUF built is going on a decade old. There is a problem with many European things Dometic distributes (Seitz windows, Heki hatches, Thetford cassette toilets, Truma...

I always count on Steve, master designer and fabricator that he is, to come up with top-notch ideas for my projects. I'll be calling Red Cannon this very morning to see what Dion thinks. Not. :sombrero:

Yeah, I know. Oh, dear. I like it, too--the made-in-Ohio base unit is particularly nice--but I need to do something to the form factor. For those who have no idea what we're talking about, rather than continue to hijack my own build thread (yet again), I direct you here...

Geez, good memory. I'm saving money, time and energy to tackle the lifting roof. In its current non-lifting roof configuration, far too many people think they should be able to buy a waffle cone from it. :-( If/when the lifting roof goes on, I'll move the side walls to the outside edges of...

Thanks, Pat. I was thinking back to the comment you made last month about all the makeovers . . . You're right; it's pretty weird that this little Jeep will end up having had three completely different configurations. Oh, well, every boy needs a hobby. :)

And now that we've covered sidecarcross . . . :) I had a really good conversation with Dion last evening and got an update on how things are progressing with my Jeep camper . . . Pretty much all fiberglass, all the time. The past couple of weeks have been spent getting the top made and the...

It's not that I'll need Turbo-level stock braking, but it's not worth messing with it . . . the off-pavement use doesn't warrant any special efforts, and keeping the pavement performance is a higher priority. Given the cost of fixing damage if I screwed up, the "trails" I'll be undertaking will...

You're right. I'm an idiot. Don't know a damn thing about what I'm doing. :sombrero: I'd previously avoided posting on this thread as I'm not engaging in any serious Cayenne off-roading, but given all of the difficulty I had finding information as to what wheel and tire sizes would fit on a Gen...