Why I Recommend That You Never Buy An RV 

I just absolutely Love the freedom that a truck camper offers. I also enjoy the honesty and thoughtfulness of your videos and recommendations/reviews of products associated with this type of freedom, to do what we want when we want to. Keep up the good work. Take care, safe travels

Howard....I hope you realize what a service you are providing for folks. Truly golden advice!

We have 2023 1140/GMC 1ton. Agree on every item but wet bath solves bath water issues. Dry bath shower is nice wardrobe if you get wet bath. Wet is easy easy cleanup. Fridge pilot is pain, agree totally- we usually while travelling check by listening to gas hiss noise at black grill at exterior- dont have/ need slide awning- we learned never leave any awning out when away so avoided that issue. You nailed every item we have seen except our table up/down handle wont lock in. Thanks- BTW, bought cheap gas sensor tester on amazon and found tiny leak in propane tank compartment that made detector go off- Thanks for confirming every item to a tee we have seen. BTW - after 8 RVs , Arctic Fox build is best we have seen at price point. Thanks!

I’m a host owner and totally agree with you about the little things that seemed to be overlooked At the price point we pay you’d think details would matter more … That being said also agree with you about having our own space wherever we go

I am not yet an RVer, but I have been thinking about it a lot lately. Thanks for all the useful information. I am a new subscriber. Kudos for a job well done!

Thank you! You have the best videos, so entertaining and I love your enthusiasm! Thanks for sharing all your tips and tricks!

Love you and Corals style, your AF videos are so helpful more than you know, looking forward to finishing the 1000 weeks and many more with you guys! Like others say it is a shame what these units cost and have the amount of issues they have, hopefully Northwood manufacturing watches your video's and learns something. On another note i ordered the book you talked about in your other video, cant wait to start it!

Hello Howard, I'm a recent follower and found you in my research about Arctic Fox campers. I bought my current truck camper a 2000 Alpenlite Pendleton model purchased Oct 1999 for 16K USD. I've only had one major issue in 24 years. At year 7 my 3 way 6 cf. fridge circuit board went out costing a couple hundred bucks for repair. I 95% boondock in NE Wash, North ID, and Western Montana. I've really enjoyed the detailed reporting you have done on your unit. That level of detail is just about impossible to achieve from a walk through on a dealer lot. I was sold on the 1150 until I saw the new 1140 model with the large fridge. My current camper has 4-5 things your camper addresses. 1. Larger water tank. 2. Easier step-up into the cab-over. 3. Slightly larger bath with more storage. 4. More headroom in the cab-over. 5. Larger fridge. 6. No front window in cab-over. But...after this latest video I'm wondering if it's worth the aggravation. :) Best regards, Kevin

Thanks for telling us of your hard earned lessons !

Inspiring video - thank you!

Great video. We’re still waiting for our 1150 but I now know of a few things to watch out for. Thanks for the great content. I think you nailed the bbq issue. The gas is regulated in the camper and then regulated again at your bbq. I think that you need to remove the regulator from the bbq and replace it with a bbq hose that is just a straight hose with a quick connect on one end and threads to fit the bbq on the other. Our dealer warned us about this, so I’ll be picking up a replacement hose too. A quick search of amazon showed a few. Thanks again.

You should have recieved two remotes for your rig. The red one which you reference in your video only will operate when plugged in. The black one ( hopefully you recieved also ) is the wireless version, change out the internal battery and I bet it works. Your slide awning issue is either it’s not rolled up evenly or most likely not enough tension on the return spring mechanism, easy fix. I agree on the bath vanity being a poor design. I installed a locking pin on the exterior to keep the door closed and also mounted a lip on the shelves and some elastic across the unit to keep items in place when opening up door, works fine now. Your frig will default to AC when auto mode is selected but you should be able to select manually propane anytime regardless if your on shore power or not. Just be aware if using the “auto mode” and your using an inverter for AC when camping you will be using a lot of ahr’s so… I ordered my Arctic Fox 990 camper back in April of 2018 and picked it up in May from Apache Camping Center in Portland. Haven’t had ANY issues except a faulty bypass valve on my H2O pump which Northwood sent me a replacement free of charge which I installed and has been fine ever since. Sounds like your rig was built around the “COVID era” and was lacking in QC like a lot of vehicles and such.

Great video as always ! As I watch from my now renovated truck camper on my job site in Kingston Ontario. Just made my coffee and watched your video. Only thing negative was the mess along the bush area. I picked up a grab pull and garbage bags and cleaned up. I’m working at the Walmart and heard the store is thinking of not allowing over night parking for that reason . I went in and told them I cleaned up and posted it as well. I really wish people would take the garbage they create where ever they may be and suppose of properly. My girlfriend and I go for many walks and see the garbage and I told her we should walk with the grab pull and clean up as we go. Enjoy your continued travel and be safe. I’m back in BC again and working in Surrey and Kamloops and taking my son who works with me. Will be stopping in Armstrong again to see parents and brother

All of these problems within 3 months at 100K When are the manufacturing going to fix these items before they sell it. Very frustrating and costly.

I'm a man in my twenties looking to potentially live in a camper for a few years up in northern bc and alberta this stuff helps me out to know

I do love the Arctic Fox but after watching numerous videos of damage from water infiltration in various truck campers I'm going to opt for a camper made with Azdel composite construction... Also, rubber roofs are now obsolete, in my opinion PVC is much stronger and can withstand rips and tears much better than TPO or EDPM. NuCamp's truck camper's are made with Azdel and the roof is aluminum, so no worries about damage to a rubber membrane...

Just want to correct you on the leak of propane sensor..it's a CO sensor not a CO2 sensor...it says so right on it.

We bought a 2022 Lance 1172. First off dealer put a hole in our rear slide topper when water froze on top of it. One of the propane tanks was empty and could not be filled. Shower tub surround cracked in 3 places. Hadn’t used it yet. Fridge wouldn’t work. Wasn’t plugged in. Propane line crimped when moving slide. So wouldn’t work on propane. LTE antenna fell off on our first trip. Unit is at the dealership now. We’ve used it once in a year. Waiting for parts from Lance. No more time to camp now. I’m not into winter camping. Seems like every camper manufacturer has their issues.

Hi Howard. I think you have a 12v fridge without any propane function. The new campers do not have 2 way fridge anymore. I have a 2023 1150 with a propane and AC fridge.