SimplyAnAdventure
Well-known member
Hello all,
We've been on a long quest for the perfect vehicle to transport us on our adventures around the country. We've had 2 Power Wagons, 4 Door Jeeps, A Tacoma that had one of the first GFC's and than wore a Alu Cab Khaya before being sold as a package. Right now we're rocking a Rav4 Adventure with a 3rd Gen iKamper Mini and Falken Wildpeaks.... To cut my ramblings short we aren't new to the game but we would like something that will work for the long-ish term that can be livable for a few weeks to a couple months at a time. After a couple years of climbing in and out of every camper we could find at various Expo's and watching what seems like every YouTube video on the subject we have come to the conclusion that a SuperTramp and a Ford Tremor might be the right setup for us. We actually looked exhaustively at OEV campers and just found that unless going flatbed/ camper (which was cost prohibitive for us) there's just not much storage in a OEV Backcountry.
On to my question, I am planning on placing an order with Ford this week, in hopes I can get the truck this year spec'd as follows, for you experts out there can you think of something that I am missing? or specifically should or should not opt for?
Ford F350, 7.3L Gas Crew Cab 6.75ft Bed
Tremor Off Road package (after lifting countless vehicles I want to just leave this alone and retain all factory options and geometry)
Sport Package, this is purely for looks, no chrome.
XLT Premium Package, comes with some nice upgrades. This has BLIS monitoring which when looking at doing a flatbed seemed to be a big no no.
360 Degree Camera package WITHOUT Center Mounted Stop Lamp Camera as a full time truck camper that camera seems like it would be in a bad place, Planning on using a camera source relocation kit to move the tailgate camera to the camper.
Front and rear mud flaps, and wheel well liners.
Spray in bed liner.
Exterior backup alarm, again full time camper truck this just seems like a benefit in crowded national parks.
Dual alternators and batteries. Ford told me if I opt for the factory installed Winch they won't start the build so this allows me to add it myself later.
Cloth 40/ Console/ 40 Seats, Seeing the little Dometic Console fridge, seems like that might be handy to keep a few drinks and snack in.
Carpet Delete!! Owned a Cummins with Vinyl flooring, every truck on earth should be built this way if you ask me.
Upfitter switches, had a lot of lights on my Taco, not sure if I will on this one but this should make it easier.
That's it. Any glaring omissions or un-necessary items you see on there? To be honest it seems just about like my dream truck for this kind of build, I can't imagine wanting anything else or getting rid of something but if it makes for a more useable vehicle i'm all ears.
Finnally the SuperTramp camper. Only options I was thinking were as follows.
1500W inverter
A second 100AH LiFePO battery
L-Track on both sides.
The Eco Plus Combi heater, we don't often use campgrounds, but we certainly do occasionally and this just allows heat from 120V 20A outlet to save propane.
My wife works full remote so the battery and inverter should be all we need to power a starlink and her laptop.
Any opinions of the Supertramp would be greatly appreciated, we already booked a flight to fly out to Denver to see one in person.
That's it, please give us any and all contructive critisism. This is a big purchase and we want it to be right.
We are headed for Tuktoyuktuk in August Through the end of Sept and would love for this to be our vehicle, though I really doubt everything thing will be done, but you never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all in advance!
-SAA
We've been on a long quest for the perfect vehicle to transport us on our adventures around the country. We've had 2 Power Wagons, 4 Door Jeeps, A Tacoma that had one of the first GFC's and than wore a Alu Cab Khaya before being sold as a package. Right now we're rocking a Rav4 Adventure with a 3rd Gen iKamper Mini and Falken Wildpeaks.... To cut my ramblings short we aren't new to the game but we would like something that will work for the long-ish term that can be livable for a few weeks to a couple months at a time. After a couple years of climbing in and out of every camper we could find at various Expo's and watching what seems like every YouTube video on the subject we have come to the conclusion that a SuperTramp and a Ford Tremor might be the right setup for us. We actually looked exhaustively at OEV campers and just found that unless going flatbed/ camper (which was cost prohibitive for us) there's just not much storage in a OEV Backcountry.
On to my question, I am planning on placing an order with Ford this week, in hopes I can get the truck this year spec'd as follows, for you experts out there can you think of something that I am missing? or specifically should or should not opt for?
Ford F350, 7.3L Gas Crew Cab 6.75ft Bed
Tremor Off Road package (after lifting countless vehicles I want to just leave this alone and retain all factory options and geometry)
Sport Package, this is purely for looks, no chrome.
XLT Premium Package, comes with some nice upgrades. This has BLIS monitoring which when looking at doing a flatbed seemed to be a big no no.
360 Degree Camera package WITHOUT Center Mounted Stop Lamp Camera as a full time truck camper that camera seems like it would be in a bad place, Planning on using a camera source relocation kit to move the tailgate camera to the camper.
Front and rear mud flaps, and wheel well liners.
Spray in bed liner.
Exterior backup alarm, again full time camper truck this just seems like a benefit in crowded national parks.
Dual alternators and batteries. Ford told me if I opt for the factory installed Winch they won't start the build so this allows me to add it myself later.
Cloth 40/ Console/ 40 Seats, Seeing the little Dometic Console fridge, seems like that might be handy to keep a few drinks and snack in.
Carpet Delete!! Owned a Cummins with Vinyl flooring, every truck on earth should be built this way if you ask me.
Upfitter switches, had a lot of lights on my Taco, not sure if I will on this one but this should make it easier.
That's it. Any glaring omissions or un-necessary items you see on there? To be honest it seems just about like my dream truck for this kind of build, I can't imagine wanting anything else or getting rid of something but if it makes for a more useable vehicle i'm all ears.
Finnally the SuperTramp camper. Only options I was thinking were as follows.
1500W inverter
A second 100AH LiFePO battery
L-Track on both sides.
The Eco Plus Combi heater, we don't often use campgrounds, but we certainly do occasionally and this just allows heat from 120V 20A outlet to save propane.
My wife works full remote so the battery and inverter should be all we need to power a starlink and her laptop.
Any opinions of the Supertramp would be greatly appreciated, we already booked a flight to fly out to Denver to see one in person.
That's it, please give us any and all contructive critisism. This is a big purchase and we want it to be right.
We are headed for Tuktoyuktuk in August Through the end of Sept and would love for this to be our vehicle, though I really doubt everything thing will be done, but you never know!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you all in advance!
-SAA
