Can you use your camper with the slideout not out?

My AF990 is usable with the slide in. Getting in and/or getting to the bathroom is possible but is tight. Everything else except the long storage compartment along the front of the dinette is no problem. In fact we have used the camper in -18 F temps and chose to keep the slide in.

Lance 1161...YES...that is one of the reasons for the rebuild...that camper is so usable for us!

my 2008 Lance 992 I could.
my 2015 EC 1160 you can not

Our AF1140 we can.

Snow Bird aka Snow River in the US - first campers to feature a slide - yes.

Even in a truck stop, there's room to deploy the slide... but parking at a truck stop is very noisy when parked between all the trucks.... so I wouldn't recommend that as a viable option for overnighting if you are a light sleeper and can't deal with noise.

AF811 is tight but I have used it slide in.

06Fargo wrote:
Snow Bird aka Snow River in the US - first campers to feature a slide - yes.

I tend to agree with that! :B

Course, I may be a tad biased. :B (SnowRiver 10-8 seen in signature).

No, honestly with the slide in, a little tight getting through but nothing major.

And it stays very warm. Spent a week up in North Dakota early last month and nights were cold. Low 20's and we stayed snug and warm. I was surprised at how much propane we had remaining when I refilled the tanks.

However, I did make one major mistake. On one of the coldest nights, I didn't extend the slide all the way out. Figured it would keep us warmer. WRONG! Silly me never noticed until the next morning that it was not sealed around the bottom corners of the slides unless they were either all the way in, or all the way out.

Oh well, one learns, sometimes the hard way.

2008 Lance 981, yes.

Very usable