buzzman
Senior Member
Hi all,
It's been awhile since I have participated in this fine forum. My bad! I know. It's good to see some of the old familiar names still here.
Back in 2007 when I was searching for a truck camper you all were a lot of help to me with my search and with deciding what options to order on my new Grandby.
Well, I'm back again asking for information and opinions. Over the last 4-5 years, Sherri and I have gone on a lot of camping trips with the Grandby ranging from one day to about two months. The Grandby has held up well and everything still works as new. But, for the way we travel and camp, it seems like a dinette would be nice to have. At least we think so. Especially when it's raining or too cold outside and we just want to stay inside. The table we got with the Grandby is fairly useless. We have taken it with us maybe once.
However, I think there are both positives and negatives to a dinette in a FWC. I want to hear what someone else has to say, especially somebody who has, or had, a Grandby with a factory installed dinette. Likes, dislikes, issues, etc.
My Grandby has the extended bed with the 16" bed slider pullout and we usually leave the bed made up when we travel and camp. Right away I can see from the photos I got from Stan at FWC that the bed extension slider interferes with the forward seating position when pulled out. And with the table set up, it looks like it would be difficult to climb in and out of bed with the slider out? It also looks like there is a loss of storage with the dinette as compared to what is under the the bench seat. One plus is that It looks like we could actually see out the big window on the passenger side with a dinette. But the big plus I think is that we could use the table to eat, read, etc. and not be blocking the isle.
Tom at FWC says they can do the mod to my camper for around $900 depending on the fabric. I have the tools and shop space to do the mod myself and I could save a little money, but I think in the long run the camper would hold it's value better if it was done by the factory. Sean Dempsey from Go-Anywhere (http://www.go-anywhere.us/) stopped by last fall and we talked about it. He agrees that the camper would hold it's value better if the mod was done by FWC. But I'm not even sure I want to mod this camper and it's a big deal to do this.
Here's some pictures of a Grandby with a factory dinette that I got from Stan. Let me know what you think about the usefulness of the factory dinette.
Thanks,
Buzz
It's been awhile since I have participated in this fine forum. My bad! I know. It's good to see some of the old familiar names still here.
Back in 2007 when I was searching for a truck camper you all were a lot of help to me with my search and with deciding what options to order on my new Grandby.
Well, I'm back again asking for information and opinions. Over the last 4-5 years, Sherri and I have gone on a lot of camping trips with the Grandby ranging from one day to about two months. The Grandby has held up well and everything still works as new. But, for the way we travel and camp, it seems like a dinette would be nice to have. At least we think so. Especially when it's raining or too cold outside and we just want to stay inside. The table we got with the Grandby is fairly useless. We have taken it with us maybe once.
However, I think there are both positives and negatives to a dinette in a FWC. I want to hear what someone else has to say, especially somebody who has, or had, a Grandby with a factory installed dinette. Likes, dislikes, issues, etc.
My Grandby has the extended bed with the 16" bed slider pullout and we usually leave the bed made up when we travel and camp. Right away I can see from the photos I got from Stan at FWC that the bed extension slider interferes with the forward seating position when pulled out. And with the table set up, it looks like it would be difficult to climb in and out of bed with the slider out? It also looks like there is a loss of storage with the dinette as compared to what is under the the bench seat. One plus is that It looks like we could actually see out the big window on the passenger side with a dinette. But the big plus I think is that we could use the table to eat, read, etc. and not be blocking the isle.
Tom at FWC says they can do the mod to my camper for around $900 depending on the fabric. I have the tools and shop space to do the mod myself and I could save a little money, but I think in the long run the camper would hold it's value better if it was done by the factory. Sean Dempsey from Go-Anywhere (http://www.go-anywhere.us/) stopped by last fall and we talked about it. He agrees that the camper would hold it's value better if the mod was done by FWC. But I'm not even sure I want to mod this camper and it's a big deal to do this.
Here's some pictures of a Grandby with a factory dinette that I got from Stan. Let me know what you think about the usefulness of the factory dinette.
Thanks,
Buzz
