2023 New OEV High Country Hard Wall Camper Flatbed and Fixed

mk216v

Der Chef der Fahrzeuge
I agree with you guys. I cannot keep the constantly-evolving model names straight, the changes and conflicting information and all, it's exhausting. All of these different cabins they're offerings are awesome, but they need a clear and definitive naming system IMHO, beyond SW(SoftWall) or HW(HardWall), and R(Removable) or F(Fixed).
Earthroamer had it for a bit; XV-LT, XV-LTS(Stretch). XV-LTSS (SuperStretch).

I've run this feedback up the flag pole.
 

klahanie

daydream believer
So I see on OEV's home page Hybrid is gone and they now have:
Fixed
Flat-bed
Slide-in

Who says they don't listen 😃. Actually, I think they do, and have, --> to everyone's benefit.

And they have a teaser E-Series 4x4 camper project. Yay, I do like what this co. is doing.

Built a better pop up, trays for integration, keeping their units narrow, NA sourced where possible, fixed mount (we need more of these), and now E-Series.

Dynamite !
 

mk216v

Der Chef der Fahrzeuge
So I see on OEV's home page Hybrid is gone and they now have:
Fixed
Flat-bed
Slide-in

Who says they don't listen 😃. Actually, I think they do, and have, --> to everyone's benefit.

And they have a teaser E-Series 4x4 camper project. Yay, I do like what this co. is doing.

Built a better pop up, trays for integration, keeping their units narrow, NA sourced where possible, fixed mount (we need more of these), and now E-Series.

Dynamite !
They now have dropdowns for HardWall, Removable, and Fixed. That really should instead say Removable-HW, Removable-SW, and Fixed...because the 3 Fixed cabins are all HW as well so HardWall is misleading/confusing.

E-Series cutaway will be interesting. All of their campers have pretty industry-standard 60"L cabovers, whereas the cab for an E-Series is super short compared to a CrewCab truck, so how will this work? Cabover can't hang over the hood of the E, and it'd look silly to have a really long aft-of-cab cab extension.

Fixed mount; why do we need more? They're over double the price of a removable camper (ie BC-SW at $160k, when an 8' HB-SW is $68k). I think the BC is great, but I do not see/understand the value in the $92k delta over a standard SW camper, do you?
A fully custom flatbed/headache cross frame tunnel box(allowing more storage than BC-HW setup offers, at less weight), 4 custom under-bed boxes is ~$30k installed. That still leaves $62k. Subtract ~$10k for power roof = $52k remaining. So a horseshoe dinette, shower pan in the entry floor, no propane, Hydronic, extra solar panel, Molle on the back, some higher end Victron and a 2000W inverter...is worth $52,000? Not trying to come across critical, I'm trying to wrap my brain around the math.

HC-R, under Download specs, still says diesel or petrol heater, OEV hydronic. That'll be cool.
 
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chadx

♫ Off the road again. Just can't wait to get...
HC-R, under Download specs, still says diesel or petrol heater, OEV hydronic. That'll be cool.
Welllllll, that just means the download spec is still wrong. ;) That is the spec for the HC-F; not HC-R. Click on the Plumbing/Heating/Cooling tab to see the real specs (screen shot pasted below).

Diesel/gas heat source are plumbed it directly into the pickups fuel tank. Yes, they likely could rig a removable camper to have the same gas/diesel source by placing an onboard fuel tank for the gas/diesel, but I find that unlikely, especially because the images of the HC-R already show a propane compartment. That also aligns with OEV's history of only putting gas/diesel on fixed campers while all removable campers use propane.

Paste of HC-removable specs noting propane:
HC-R specs.JPG




Paste of HC-Fixed specs noting gas/diesel:
HC-F specs.JPG
 

chadx

♫ Off the road again. Just can't wait to get...
And pics confirm HC-R will have propane heat and single propane/single induction burners rather than gas/diesel heat and full induction burners.
 

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