2014 Host Mammoth
Well, we busted the piggy bank open, and ordered one in March after seeing it in person.
We had a 1996 Lance 550, and sold that to make the deposit. Host now has dealers again, and is no longer doing factory direct.
After waiting almost 4 months for it, we got it July.. Except the dealer hooked a battery up backwards to it, and fried an inverter, and blew fuses on the charger and radio.
We had 3 extras added:
1) Black tank flush. Wifey said "no more hoses inside the camper, please".
2) Seelevel gauges. I didn't think the traditional gauges was any good - ie, 1/3 2/3 full leds (especially with a 65 gallon water tank, 51 gallon grey tank!)
3) PD built in surge protector.
We also picked the Cherry wood color with Sage cushions - the chocolate made things just too dark inside.
The bad news was, they have soo many orders, they didn't check the order sheet when they built ours and messed up the interior colors. Given the blown up electrical and the wrong interior colors, they requested the unit to come back to the factory if possible.
So, after several weeks of waiting for vacation time and parts to arrive at the factory, I loaded up the unit and went back to the factory with it.
We decided to nit-pick the camper to get every minor detail fixed when it was there (one of the reasons to go - it had more issues than just electrical and color).
So far, we love the room in this camper. We can easily get 7+ people in it. The bathroom space is just incredible - it's actually very, very usable.
Yes, I carry the camper on a 2001 F250/7.3 with 6spd/4x4 with factory HD suspension, Vision 19.5's/Kumho's 245/G range, air bags in the rear, helwig rear sway bar and bilstein HD shocks. The truck/camper handles the same as before with the Lance on it, and does not have excessive sway.
I even know what the weights are empty and loaded, I cat scaled the truck and camper, and plan to weigh again with full load of water to see how the weight is distributed.
No, I'm not going to buy a DRW, we know the F250 over it's GVW. We do not tow a trailer, so I'm not worried about it; it's actually lighter than our previous setup (F250/Lance 550/trailer + samurai).
I've put the pictures and a short walk thru video on my google+ page at Host 2014 Mammoth Camper album
We had a 1996 Lance 550, and sold that to make the deposit. Host now has dealers again, and is no longer doing factory direct.
After waiting almost 4 months for it, we got it July.. Except the dealer hooked a battery up backwards to it, and fried an inverter, and blew fuses on the charger and radio.
We had 3 extras added:
1) Black tank flush. Wifey said "no more hoses inside the camper, please".
2) Seelevel gauges. I didn't think the traditional gauges was any good - ie, 1/3 2/3 full leds (especially with a 65 gallon water tank, 51 gallon grey tank!)
3) PD built in surge protector.
We also picked the Cherry wood color with Sage cushions - the chocolate made things just too dark inside.
The bad news was, they have soo many orders, they didn't check the order sheet when they built ours and messed up the interior colors. Given the blown up electrical and the wrong interior colors, they requested the unit to come back to the factory if possible.
So, after several weeks of waiting for vacation time and parts to arrive at the factory, I loaded up the unit and went back to the factory with it.
We decided to nit-pick the camper to get every minor detail fixed when it was there (one of the reasons to go - it had more issues than just electrical and color).
So far, we love the room in this camper. We can easily get 7+ people in it. The bathroom space is just incredible - it's actually very, very usable.
Yes, I carry the camper on a 2001 F250/7.3 with 6spd/4x4 with factory HD suspension, Vision 19.5's/Kumho's 245/G range, air bags in the rear, helwig rear sway bar and bilstein HD shocks. The truck/camper handles the same as before with the Lance on it, and does not have excessive sway.
I even know what the weights are empty and loaded, I cat scaled the truck and camper, and plan to weigh again with full load of water to see how the weight is distributed.
No, I'm not going to buy a DRW, we know the F250 over it's GVW. We do not tow a trailer, so I'm not worried about it; it's actually lighter than our previous setup (F250/Lance 550/trailer + samurai).
I've put the pictures and a short walk thru video on my google+ page at Host 2014 Mammoth Camper album
