Love the simplicity of your concept, you should make a lot of holes of about 2" in the pieces of wood under the mattress so it reduced weight and your mattress gets better ventilation.
Nice to see a handsome young man that is so humble. A real class act. Thank you for the video, I will take this into consideration while building out my Subaru.
Kathryn Ruckman , nope... didn’t need a platform. 60/40 seats , use either half to hold foam mattress and bedding.... plenty of storage left for necessities. Some larger belongings not needed daily into storage. Easy, peasy.
Easily the coolest mini car camper setup I’ve seen! Do you have a build video or anything? I’d love to steal quite a few ideas for when I rework my own build at some point
I have watched at least 100 videos on SUV camper builds and I have to say this is the absolute best! you have designed this modularly to provide many different configuration options and you have done an excellent job. I am going to try to copy your ideas. I'm telling you this is An excellent example on how to do an SUV camper build!
Your setup is just completely amazing!! I have the same car and I’m having this idea of setting it up the same as yours. Nice and creative!!!! Gracias!
Really cool! Yours is the best camper conversion I’ve seen and I think it’s because of the versatility. I can tell you’ve put a lot of thought and planning into this. Excellent work.
yooo! do you have plans for this?? I have been watching honda fit conversion videos all day, but I wanted a stove slide out and none of them have this! I have no idea how to build, but I can follow good instructions!
Rookie first-timer here. Seen a lot of these vids and this one is one of the betters. Never would have thought about extending one side of the bed longer, to keep driver's side intact for a quick "get up and go." The cut-away for the cooler was also something most of us would not have thought to do.
I would switch the positions of the yeti and the stove because while you probably won't need to access your stove lying down (now under your side of the bed), it would be nice to be able to reach into the yeti (now next to your head instead of under it) to grab a beer without getting up. I'm lazy like that. :)
This video is really helpful! I have a 2012 CRV and we are planning to either make it ourself or talk to a local cabinet maker. I work crazy hours so having time to make this myself is questionable. Thank you for this video!
Such an incredible video! So well done and very explained! Thank you for sharing your experience with us! Please record more videos like this... I learned so much!
Your build is awesome!!! I drive a Jeep Rubicon Unlimited and I need the most possible room for my snow board or my surf board. I definitely am going to try and emulate your build for my weekend adventures. Thank you soo much for posting this ☺️
Whether you have the time-in experience of a true craftsman or not, you are crafty, handy, and dang smart about using what happened got. Thinking forward and broadly, and solving your bugaboo about permanence versus temporary installation and built a stable removable puzzle. Fantastic! And the skate bearing drawer...(awe)...now, that's usin' yer noodle! You've got good spatial and abstract reasoning, and if you've got fluid thinkability you've got it all, baby!
Here I am almost 4 years later checking this video out, it's a NICE Build. I really like the detail you took to measure and make sure stuff fits and how it goes in/out easily. My son just turned 6, and I grew up camping with in my teen years with my friend and have a ton of memories. I'd like to covert my Fit to something similar in order to take him out camping - or when kids get older wifey and I can drop kids at grandmas house and take off for a weekend lol. I see it's been a few years since you've posted - hopefully, all has been good, deff outa post more :-)
Do you have the plans for this set up? Ive been looking for plans or at least the material and the pieces you have used for it to build this. Very much appreciated :)
Awesome video and build....Gave me some ideas...I have a 2012 dodge grand caravan and wanted a non permanent camper conversion to do some travel...thanks..
Awesome seeing how your platform is set up for your bed. I have a 01 ZX3 Focus and I'm working on it to make it sleep able for going to conventions across the country. I've slept in it over one week end and it wasn't too bad. It's was an amazing experience sleeping in my car at a rest stop and not paying for an over priced hotel for my weekend away. :)
This is such a simple cool design, and I proberly could do this myself...Would love a list and measurements to buy if you could possibly do that👍 Thank you for sharing this awesome car camper😃
My first car was a Honda CR-V I put 400 000 km on it I practically lived in it going out every night and every weekend it was stock didn’t do any conversions because I was young and dumb but to this day it has been my favourite car I’ve owned thing is built like a tank.
I know it has been a while since you posted this but I was wondering if you had considered putting the dimensions for the build, up for sale! I would totally spend the money to not have to come up with plans that I already love!! Thanks so much for the inspiration by the way, we were considering a minivan but I wouldn't feel nearly as comfortable driving it (plus I already love the crvs)
This is amazing! I have a Honda CRV and was thinking about what to do to convert it. So many awesome ideas I wouldn't have thought of! I've never attempted to do anything like this before. Do you have a blueprint for sale?
I love your build out for your Vehicle I'm about to move into my vehicle at the end of this year and I was wondering is it easy to reinstall the seats. I want to be able to sell my SUV at a later date and was wondering will it be a hassle to remove them and to reinstall them.
@@daytonasayswhat9333 well, I provided a reason in my first comment. Leaving the engine working for few hours is in many countries illegal, generates noise, unnecessary pollute environment and so on.
Very well designed and executed. You did a good job avoiding the obvious bulk and overweighting of these other folks packing 100 pounds of wood in their small SUV. I still think a mattress with a large tablet, some stackable crates (can be used as table as well), soft mesh nets on the sides and roof and soft organizing bags is the way to maximize space in a small SUV rather than a platform/drawers system more suited to larger vehicles or vans. In fact, your system would be perfect if adapted to a larger van.
Thanks for such a comprehensive review of your ingenious camper conversion design. I am currently looking at buying a CR-V, and was wondering if I could use it for overnight sleeping when the weather here in the UK is too bad. Your video answers that with a resounding yes. Many thanks and ATB.
Nice job! Thanks for sharing. I was just wondering if you decided on all your pieces first, like the cooler, the battery and stove top. Then made the measurements for the framing? Sorry if I missed that part.
I did a mix of both. I knew I wanted a stove, cooler, battery, etc.... So I looked into the different kinds and sizes and then figured out what would likely work best. Then once I made the purchases I made the final cuts and measurements based off of the exact sizes and layouts of the items.
This is a great simple design. Very very functional. Have you made any update on it since the time you published this video? It is always great to get new ideas an inspiration for our own builds :) Thanks for sharing!
I have to admit, when this video first started I thought what you made was stupid. But once I got to the window latches, it's actually pretty clever. Good job.
great video man like the build as well im building out mine right now 02 dodge 15 passanger van thanks for posting in the van dwellers group other wise i wouldnt have fund your channel
