Hi, just wanted to say thank you all for all the information on your site.
I recently purchased a 2008 Granby for my Dodge 1500, 6'4" bed, 1700 lb load capacity truck.
I first encountered a FWC Hawk that a friend of my purchased a couple of winters ago.
I checked them out and the price drove me towards looking for other pop-up campers.
I actually placed a deposit on a Palomino SS 550 on eBay from a company called Cheyenne Camping out of Iowa. Price was under $10,000 so I thought it was a good deal and I was willing to put in the extremely long drive to pick it up, but then I started reading up on gross vehicle weight and camper weight and decided that camper would be way too heavy for my truck.
What to do?
Luckily the owner, who is quite a character, but a totally honest person and let me out of my contract because he agreed that camper wasn't a good match for my truck.
I started looking at used pop-up campers and a 2008 Granby showed up on RV Trader and it was in my home State.
I called the owner and immediately purchased it from the pictures even though it would take me a couple days to go look at it. So off to Lopez Island, Wa. where I encountered another totally honest person who held the camper for me for 2 days and was even willing to come down $900 in price. I was the first caller so I got lucky because he said there were many calls after mine.
Lots of great ideas on this forum which I'm going to implement such as a gray water holding tank made of 4" PVC,vented the battery box, and going to add a angle iron supporting the end of the camper in place of the tailgate for weight reduction and Rock Chip damage mitigation to the tailgate.
Also followed one of the recommendations for a bike rack here that swings out of the way of the door, I installed the Firestone coil Rite air bags which definitely leveled out the truck and removed the rear seat in the quad cab for weight reduction and dog comfort.
So thanks for the help.
It's kind of funny that now I'm seeing four-wheel campers on a lot of trucks out there where before I hadn't even noticed them.
I recently purchased a 2008 Granby for my Dodge 1500, 6'4" bed, 1700 lb load capacity truck.
I first encountered a FWC Hawk that a friend of my purchased a couple of winters ago.
I checked them out and the price drove me towards looking for other pop-up campers.
I actually placed a deposit on a Palomino SS 550 on eBay from a company called Cheyenne Camping out of Iowa. Price was under $10,000 so I thought it was a good deal and I was willing to put in the extremely long drive to pick it up, but then I started reading up on gross vehicle weight and camper weight and decided that camper would be way too heavy for my truck.
What to do?
Luckily the owner, who is quite a character, but a totally honest person and let me out of my contract because he agreed that camper wasn't a good match for my truck.
I started looking at used pop-up campers and a 2008 Granby showed up on RV Trader and it was in my home State.
I called the owner and immediately purchased it from the pictures even though it would take me a couple days to go look at it. So off to Lopez Island, Wa. where I encountered another totally honest person who held the camper for me for 2 days and was even willing to come down $900 in price. I was the first caller so I got lucky because he said there were many calls after mine.
Lots of great ideas on this forum which I'm going to implement such as a gray water holding tank made of 4" PVC,vented the battery box, and going to add a angle iron supporting the end of the camper in place of the tailgate for weight reduction and Rock Chip damage mitigation to the tailgate.
Also followed one of the recommendations for a bike rack here that swings out of the way of the door, I installed the Firestone coil Rite air bags which definitely leveled out the truck and removed the rear seat in the quad cab for weight reduction and dog comfort.
So thanks for the help.
It's kind of funny that now I'm seeing four-wheel campers on a lot of trucks out there where before I hadn't even noticed them.