The Truck Camper experience comes to an end...
Today we sold our F350 after selling the Arctic Fox 990 a few weeks ago. We were able to get exactly what we paid for the AF 990 after owning it for 2-years, so that was nice. It sold in 4 days after listing it on Craigslist. We weren't so lucky with the F350. Bought it for $29K and sold it for $23K 2 years later. Turns out very few people are interested in a gasser dually, but it did eventually sell so I can't complain, and the 2-year depreciation of $6k for both isn't too bad.
We decided to sell because we didn't use it as much as we thought we would, and keeping a truck that is only used for hauling the camper is fairly expensive. Add in the storage lot monthly fee and the hot market for RV's and it seemed like a good time. Both the truck and TC require maintenance and it was hard to find time for that.
The AF 990 was super comfortable and functional in every way, but we did end up with a couple of leaks: One from Dicor failure at the front of the cabover that resulted in water pooling on the underside of the cabover with delamination (disclosed to buyer of course). The delam wasn't significant, but was annoying considering the fact that it only spent 2 years outside. I got a quote of $2K to fix it from Northwoods. The other was the skylight over the bathroom. Small cracks developed in 3 of the 4 corners and that thing leaked a surprising amount for such small cracks. The solution was to put Dicor in all 4 corners, but it took me a couple of months to figure out where the water was coming in because I couldn't see them until I got really close. Northwoods said the strong California sun was to blame for that one:? No damage from that leak luckily.
We will be going back to a TT and are going smaller this time. We ordered an Escape 19 that won't be built until Spring 2017. They are only 7' wide and not very tall so we can park it on the side of the house and not pay for storage. Fiberglass construction should be mostly leak-free. If we only use it 3-4 times a year it's not as big of a deal for it to sit there than it was for the truck we sold.
Thanks to everyone here for the great information that helped us along the way!
We decided to sell because we didn't use it as much as we thought we would, and keeping a truck that is only used for hauling the camper is fairly expensive. Add in the storage lot monthly fee and the hot market for RV's and it seemed like a good time. Both the truck and TC require maintenance and it was hard to find time for that.
The AF 990 was super comfortable and functional in every way, but we did end up with a couple of leaks: One from Dicor failure at the front of the cabover that resulted in water pooling on the underside of the cabover with delamination (disclosed to buyer of course). The delam wasn't significant, but was annoying considering the fact that it only spent 2 years outside. I got a quote of $2K to fix it from Northwoods. The other was the skylight over the bathroom. Small cracks developed in 3 of the 4 corners and that thing leaked a surprising amount for such small cracks. The solution was to put Dicor in all 4 corners, but it took me a couple of months to figure out where the water was coming in because I couldn't see them until I got really close. Northwoods said the strong California sun was to blame for that one:? No damage from that leak luckily.
We will be going back to a TT and are going smaller this time. We ordered an Escape 19 that won't be built until Spring 2017. They are only 7' wide and not very tall so we can park it on the side of the house and not pay for storage. Fiberglass construction should be mostly leak-free. If we only use it 3-4 times a year it's not as big of a deal for it to sit there than it was for the truck we sold.
Thanks to everyone here for the great information that helped us along the way!
