Arctic Fox

Yeah Northwood in LaGrande, OR.

I'm not going to say Arctic Fox is better or worse than any other brand, but I have found the build quality of my 2013 Arctic Fox 992 to be very good and have no complaints with it - I bought it new. I thoroughly checked out all the brands before I bought it, and I chose the AF. I even traveled over 600 miles to a dealer that had the one I was looking for to buy it.

Princesscraft RV in Texas carries about everything....Lance, AF, Bigfoot, Camplite, Living Lite, Adventurer, maybe more. But it is still unusual to see a TC in Texas.

travelnutz wrote:


...Per their salesman own verbal words, Arctic Fox TC's are hard to sell as they do not have a very high reputation for quality in the Midwest and some other areas of the country. Lots of customer/owner complaints. Not my words, his!

I'm not in the Mid-West but I had a dealer tell me something similar...it was at the dealer that I bought my AF 811 from a few years prior and was visiting because I was considering ordering a race car trailer with living quarters. The topic came up when I noticed they were carrying Lance and had dropped Northwood. Of course the sales pitch was completely the opposite when they originally sold me the AF.

Maybe AF/Northwood is more loyal to their current dealers then Lance? Not going to open up another dealer in their back year/ territory if that said dealer is selling enough product.

This is not borne out in real world experience in western Nevada as there prior was one Arctic Fox dealer, now two. About a mile apart. And the second dealer also sells Lance campers so Lance must have softened their hard line stance about selling only Lance products.

I guess these things are quite regional, up here I hardly ever see a Lance camper. Had one local dealer carry them for a year or two then they were gone.

Arctic Fox are available but very expensive, they also have a rep of being very well built but heavy. Northern Lites are pretty much the gold standard here but super expensive and I don't care for their interiors.

Lots of Adventurer's around here as they are cheaper and lots of dealers, I know it's not a high end brand but been happy with mine. For comparison a Northern Lite was almost double the cost.

DUH! Truck Campers are very popular in the Midwest and several brands are made in Southern Michigan and Indiana which is the capital of the RV industry by far of all types of RV's. Elkhart, Indiana is only about 10 miles south of the Michigan border and just east of South Bend. We go there a few times each year as it's only about 110 miles south of our home. The campgrounds in the Midwest always have several TC in them and down in Florida too where we go for 2-1/2 months each winter.

By far and I mean far, the most TC's you will see on the road or in CG's are Lance Camper TC's - made for over 50 years now and lots of dealers, Lots of Travel Lites, Palomino - made since 1968 in southern Michigan, Fleetwoods (Caribou etc)- not Outfitter, Sun Lites no longer made, occasional Bigfoot, now a few Cirrus, a few others. Arctic Fox or Wolf Creek TC's are among the least seen in most of the east half of the USA. Same was true in our trips to the N.E. (Bar Harbor etc).

We have had a min of one TC ourselves at any time for 52 years along with our other RV's of different types. WE know what's on the roads and in CG's in a lot of the east side of the USA.

If Arctic Fox or Wolf Creek were wanted of popular in the eastern half of the country, you'd see a lot more dealers selling them but you DON"T and guess why? Do a little research and you will know too!

Forgot about Real lite TC's as still a lot of them in CG's.

travelnutz wrote:
Arctic Fox is mainly only popular in the Northwest USA. Dealers have a hard time selling them in the eastern half of the USA as their customers have had lots of problems and quality issues with them.

Not correct that AF/Nash requires their dealers to have their products as their main brand they handle. Huge American RV and Camping World location on the south side of Grand Rapids MI has Lance as their main TC line and for many years, and they also sell Arctic Fox, Travel Lite, and Cirrus TC lines.

Per their salesman own verbal words, Arctic Fox TC's are hard to sell as they do not have a very high reputation for quality in the Midwest and some other areas of the country. Lots of customer/owner complaints. Not my words, his!

I hope this catches Northwood Mfg attention. Either the salesman was spinning a lie to sell another unit or his information was dated. He definitely is not doing the RV industry any favors. One of the other brands he sells has some pretty angry owners due to lack of quality...

GeoBoy wrote:

travelnutz wrote:
Arctic Fox is mainly only popular in the Northwest USA. Dealers have a hard time selling them in the eastern half of the USA as their customers have had lots of problems and quality issues with them.

Not correct that AF/Nash requires their dealers to have their products as their main brand they handle. Huge American RV and Camping World location on the south side of Grand Rapids MI has Lance as their main TC line and for many years, and they also sell Arctic Fox, Travel Lite, and Cirrus TC lines.

Per their salesman own verbal words, Arctic Fox TC's are hard to sell as they do not have a very high reputation for quality in the Midwest and some other areas of the country. Lots of customer/owner complaints. Not my words, his!

Not true. The main reason that you do not see many AF truck campers on the east coast is that TC's are not popular on the east coast. The freight to get AF on the east coast gets expensive. Quality issues from the Oregon facility are minimal if at all, but Northwood did try to start up manufacturing in the east coast, Winchester, VA, had sub'd out the chassis and laminations to Lippert and there were problems with the TT's. When the economy took a downturn Northwood elected to close the facility in the east but maintained a service facility there to take care of their customers. Great customer service.
There is a very large AF TC dealer in NH, Truck Camper Warehouse, and Bill has a hard time keeping AF and Wolf Creeks in stock. Bill was a Lance TC dealer at one time but elected to drop Lance when he was given an ultimatum from Lance.

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travelnutz wrote:
Dealers (of Arctic Fox) have a hard time selling them in the eastern half of the USA as their customers have had lots of problems and quality issues with them.

This things that get invented on this forum never cease to amaze me.