Eagle Cap quality?
So I have been looking at truck campers trying to narrow down to the best one for my wife and my needs, I really want a couple of recliners or theater seating so the Eagle Cap 850 looks great with the...
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I have a 2009 EC 995 (La Grande, OR. second generation builder-owner Chris Epp), and I can say now with likely 125k mi on the camper, and having lived in it for about 6 mos, the quality has held up very well and overall has been good, thanks to the use of quality build materials, including one-piece sheet fiberglass sidewalls (no luan or filon), and fiberglass front and rear full caps...
(Note: Chris was also the owner of Canada’s former Okanagan campers. It was Okanagan’s creative product planners who developed the 995, 1160 and later the ‘over-the-rail’ (OTR) floor plans leading to the revised OTR 1160 (and later the 1165))...
In about 2011-12 Chris sold EC to his brother, Adventurer builder-owner James Epp in Yakama, WA. Thus, the third build generation...James reported that EC would become Adventurer’s quality line, but gone is the one-piece fiberglass sidewalls and end caps, and now with the same luan-filon as Adventurer...Filon atop of (no rot) Azdel composite sidewalls would seem to be a fair compromise, but from what I can tell, it appears that the ‘higher end’ EC is now built on the same line as Adventurer with similar if not the same build and materials... I will say that of all the changes James has made, the only one that I might prefer is the much better aluminum rear bumper rather than moulded-in fiberglass bumper, but the latter has served me well (though difficult to attach things to)...
BTW, tanks in the second generation (La Grande, OR. Build) are uber secure and rest on wooden sleepers which provide for warm air circulation...I hope that the loose tanks in the video clip are an anomaly only...JMHO
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(Note: Chris was also the owner of Canada’s former Okanagan campers. It was Okanagan’s creative product planners who developed the 995, 1160 and later the ‘over-the-rail’ (OTR) floor plans leading to the revised OTR 1160 (and later the 1165))...
In about 2011-12 Chris sold EC to his brother, Adventurer builder-owner James Epp in Yakama, WA. Thus, the third build generation...James reported that EC would become Adventurer’s quality line, but gone is the one-piece fiberglass sidewalls and end caps, and now with the same luan-filon as Adventurer...Filon atop of (no rot) Azdel composite sidewalls would seem to be a fair compromise, but from what I can tell, it appears that the ‘higher end’ EC is now built on the same line as Adventurer with similar if not the same build and materials... I will say that of all the changes James has made, the only one that I might prefer is the much better aluminum rear bumper rather than moulded-in fiberglass bumper, but the latter has served me well (though difficult to attach things to)...
BTW, tanks in the second generation (La Grande, OR. Build) are uber secure and rest on wooden sleepers which provide for warm air circulation...I hope that the loose tanks in the video clip are an anomaly only...JMHO
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