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I don’t want to sleep outside with the bears, coyotes and human predators. That’s the whole reason for the security of the truck camper! Sleep on the roof, if necessary, but to sleep on the ground is just asking for trouble. Love your new rig!

Lance makes the best long lasting campers. The one you have looks to be in pretty good shape.

Enjoy the camper! It’s nice to have something dry to live out of!

My best memories in a truck camper was a 2001 Lance 915, we took that thing everywhere and we didn't have solar. 22 years later I bought an 70 thousand dollar Northern lite. Great camper but way to much money. I miss my 22 thousand dollar Lance, so simple. Thanks for sharing, Nice camper!

Nice set up! I’ve lived in Colorado for most of my life and I’m over 60. I’ve owned every type of camper/RV since I was 19. My wife and I currently own a 2007 Monaco 45’ diesel pusher w/tag, 4 slides, 525 Cummins, etc. A gradual evolution over the years but I miss no longer being able to camp in the forest as you cannot get something this large into the national forest. At one time, years ago, I owned a beautiful rig of a 1990 F350 Super Cab Lariat w/460 with a 1990 11’3” Lance top of the line camper. It was pretty massive and heavy but it was loaded with every option. I loved it. That rig, I swear, got like 7 mpg with or without the camper. It was a massive gas hog. I think you’ll love your new camper! Have fun!👍

Great new camper, Congratulations. I've had a Lance truck camper for 5 years now and I still really, really like it.

I had two Lance campers(An 8-ft; & 8-1/2-ft) that i basically lived in for almost 8-years while on the road doing field engineering. They had the same layout as yours which I quite like. The only issues were the entry doors of both become askew, hard to close and latch eventually needing remounting, and the rear Jacks mounting area developed rot and I replaced the wood and added 3" angle iron to the entire corners for remounting the jacks. ' I steel framed a cargo box for the rear roof area with solar panel for a lid. I also had additional solar panels for 400-watts of gross power, net is less. The equipment, fridge, heater, air, never failed on either but the inverters in both failed rather quickly. These are mild weather campers as the undersides are not insulated so the beds in the overhead and dinette area get quite cold in freezing weather, so added 1-1/2" closed cell padding(actually yoga mats cut to fit) to those areas, including the dinette floor which provide an insulated thermal barrier for a big improvement. I added foil backed insulation to the exterior underside of the wings of the camper, and the camper sat on rubber stall panels available at a farm supply, but freezing weather combined with wind is not a situation you want to endure even with the furnace running full time...expensive! Both of these campers had over 100,000 road miles on them and several hundred off-pavement miles. Road miles are hard on these campers so annual roof resealing is a must on a typical metal roof. The only draw back to truck campers is the wind resistance which greatly affects MPG. And off-road, to much lean can cause contact with trees or overhanging rock. Now days I will be pulling a 14-ft purpose built trailer with high clearance independent suspension and 1,600-watts of solar and no propane equipment. Heat by a mini-split and a Marine wood stove and highly insulated. The total area of the trailer is about the same as an 8-ft. camper and the layout is nearly the same, but with a full width rear dinette and a lot more storage available. You will enjoy the camper RV life as I did and I still sometimes miss having a truck camper. Note; the 8'-8-1/2' campers are the sweet spot, anything bigger has weight and size issues.

Very nice and almost identical to my 2004 Lance 815 which I have had almost 12 years now and no major issues so far.

Hey Andy!! Congrats on your new home! We tried living fulltime in a truck camper and it did not work for us. We now are working on a van for fulltime travel... What a cozy comfy little home!! Safe travels with your new home! 💙Terry and Terri

Just subscribed. Awesome rig and great content. Looking forward to the next video.

I strongly advise you STAY OFF the roof of a 26 year old camper, if it doesn't already leak you walking around the roof will crack the sealing of the stuff bolted on the roof.

DOOOD! nice upgrade, again. I know campers and Lance is a hi-quality brand for drop-ins. Does it have a deadhead sticker on it as well?? hahaha.

Do not directly connect solar panels to your battery. You need a charge controller between them. I just looked it up because I had never seen it directly.

Hello From Northern Virginia, Just subscribed, we love our 2006 Lance 851, heading to Boonville this Week, safe travels to ya👍🏼🇺🇸

We upgraded to a hardside from a pop up last spring and it was quite a change. No more issues with drying canvas after camping in the rain, less noise to keep us up at night, more storage, AC and the new one has electric jacks.

awesome tour thanks for showing us.

Cool video! It's really enjoyable listening to you. In comparison to your last camper it's a full on house xD Cheers from Ukraine!

You've made a good choice. Truck campers are the way to go for mobil living. Truck campers are the most versatile. I think you'll find as those of us that live full time have found, simple is best. Slide outs are nice but are heavy and inconvenient to access the inside for minor things. It's nice to just open the door and walk in. I travel cross county in mine and have found pop-ups and slides to be more hassle than they are worth. They are fine for a weekend or a short camping trip, but for full time you need simple and easy. You'll love that camper in the long run.

No drive through..you'll have many many good times I love my lance 900..there well made

A very nice, clean rig. Put in a Laveo waterless toilet and it would be perfect...

I would love to have a full size camper,but I'm concerned about very high winds,so I settled for pop up palomino (no complaints)except for winterizing in winter can't use the faucet for water.

I have a truck camper too!! I enjoy my camper alot and so will you! Happy trails my friend 😀

I love my pop-up truck camper for camping and the occasion overnight work trip but for full time a hard side like this is the way to go.

I love it.Still can't decide ,van or truck.I am retire,planning to travel and live on the road.

I have a Lance 825 and went with a DC to DC charger that chargers the battery from the alternator. It's worth looking into depending on your use case.

Very nice!

That’s a really nice camper! I like it. Congratulations

The Lance 3000 is similar in floor plan to the Lance 815 which we had from 2002 to 2020 and did many mods to our rig. The wooden frame Lance were made very strong so it will hold up very well doing all kinds of off roading. Just a note when we added AC to our rig we used a window unit and installed it where the back window is, you do lost some of the ladder.

I just bought a 1995 lance squire lite 185, looks alot like yours but yours is bigger and nicer. I got a deal $3,500 no AC and it gets way over 100 here. Lance is built very well. I got some work to do on it, re caulking the roof right now what a pain. Yours looks sweet I will follow you to see what you do. Good luck, look forward to watching you maybe you can give me some Ideas...thanks.

A severe upgrade damn dude

Nice ! I have looked at them.

That's nice camper

Really nice rig !

Lance is a good option, but the floor plans Host makes takes campers to the next level for full-timers.

I think I'd really like the dinette next to the door. More air, less claustrophobic.

We bought a lance like yours last year. Ill be interested to see how you remodel it.

Nice rig, wouldn't mind one myself..

I have had good luck with ceiling little cracks on roofs on my camper. I used to clear spray flex seal, I had a roof vent that was leaking on the edge I cleaned it very thoroughly and put a whole can of flex seal around those edges and it never leaked again.

Awesome thanks for your video

Very nice

As far as the previous comment about your roof, I don't think you've made a bad choice and pretty much all truck campers are pretty solid choices. Sure you may have to do a little servicing but, I think you made the right choice....

Sweeeet rig dude

Very nice 👌.

Great job on this presentation! Question: How tall are you? I noticed you can sit up in the cab-over bed area and stand in the shower. I'm 6'2 and thinking these spaces might be too cramped for me. Thank you.

Andy, how did you luck out and find this one? It is in such great shape and looks good. Now that I am retired 61 I would like to find a Lance to kick around in. Good luck and enjoy.

Congratulations on your new home! I was totally with you until you said "No Air Conditioner, I dont go where it's 100 degrees". I'm a Texan, and we dont buy anything without AC. Plus, I lived in Denver area many years and my rule still applied, as Denver has MANY days in the 90's-100's. You can always add AC later, though. Nice rig, but 15-15.5' tall is about 5' taller than I'd feel safe driving. But being able to offload the camper and use the truck separately is definitely an advantage. Enjoy!

You said it was about 15 feet high, I believe it is under 13 6 , if not, watch the bridges

this is cool man...

Great vid. Does the shower situation work or does it get to be too cramped?

Do you often put down those legs of the camper to not put extra stress on the suspension of the car?

Before you went inside, I was going to say that you're not an authentic YT camper liver-inner unless you take that very nice camper and start tearing it apart, for a remodel. Then, alas, you go in and state that you will be tearing it apart for a remodel. There must be some kind of lethal gas, that these campers give off, that makes people who say they want the simple life of camper living, to feel that they must dis-embowel their perfectly nice camper and turn it into a huge remodel headache.. Geeze loueeze!

What truck are you using to hold this with? I'm thinking about getting a truck with a slide in camper.

This might sound dumb but where do you get the cable that goes from your solar panel to the battery with those clips on it? I'm new to solar don't know much about it. Thanks if someone could help me.

Don't hook solar directly to battery it can be remote control so must use inverter

Hope you reinforced the bed mounts

How about off road capability? compared to fwc.. Why do you move from fwc to lance? I want to know main reason..

What do you people do for a living???? I am really curious to know.

What's with those crazy steps?

I seriously doubt the camper is 15' high unless your truck is jacked up. Many of the old tunnels are 13.5' max.

Brand and model of truck? Size of truck needed for this size camper ( 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, 1 ton?)

I've got a cl900..lance

definitely not 15 feet high. the maximum legal height before requiring an over size permit to be on the road is 13 feet 6 inches. your set up is about 10 or 11 feet tall.

Can't be 15' in height that's over the DOT maximum height of any vehicle for underpasses etc. in all 50 states. Believe the max is still 13'9". Sayin

15 feet high?

You better fumigate, i saw a roach!

This model? You can walk on any full size truck camper They wouldn’t put a ladder on it then say not to use it

Can I have your old one...

I learned "rig" is the show off braggy word for "vehicle "

After the remark about your girlfriend..probably past ..now

Your 10ft...not 15 lol

Hello 6 MPG! HAHA