matthasnofriends wrote:
Appreciate everyone's responses! You guys are all very helpful. Thanks for asking these:
1) plan to finance truck and purchase used camper outright. budget is approx. 35k and under, 10k and under, respectfully.
2) mix of both. definitely want to hit the backcountry fairly extensively, hence wanting the cabover.
3) used
4) besides camper, no.
5) minimal.
sonuvabug wrote:
Before anyone can really answer your questions ... you need to provide a little more information:
1) What's your budget for the truck & truck camper?
2) Where/how do you plan to travel i.e. mostly superslabs and paved roads or back country boondocking via forest roads etc?
3) Preference for new(ness) vs. used equipment?
4) Will you be towing anything behind you on this trip?
5) What's your level of maintenance/mechanical know-how?
As a guiding principle, you first acquire the truck camper that suits your needs, then match the truck to carry it.
3 thoughts. 1) Some RV rentals places sell off their truck and truck camper inventories every year or two years. You may want to look at those options. i.e. here in my next of the woods, Fraserway RV rents for a couple of years then sells those truck/TC units
sales.fraserway.comYour USD$45,000 budget would easily cover the cost of one of their 2 year old combination rental sell offs.
2) You may wish to consider a pop up truck camper. This is basely largely on your desire to hit the back country. A hard side, even without a slide out gets pretty big pretty fast and makes it tougher to go off road. A dually will also present some challenges regarding getting too far off road.
3) Last idea, you and your lady might want to rent a unit a couple of times and see how and what works for you. You have a lot of options (as demonstrated by the breadth of opinions expressed in this thread) and it would serve you well to give yourselves a trial run or two before locking in on any one approach.
