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Odyssey's AWD Ford Transit: Ultimate Camper Van Build Tour | Adventure Van Expo Chattanooga, TN 2023
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May 2, 2025
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hey guys we made it to adventur Van Expo
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in Chattanooga Tennessee and I'm going
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to do a quick walk through of our 2020
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Ford Transit High roof all wheeel Drive
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Van we're going to uh yeah let's start
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back here in the
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back so for
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Showtime we left the panels off of the
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power system and the water system so
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when we get back in the shop next week
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we're going to knock all that out but I
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wanted to show you the finished power
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system over here before the panels get
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on it so in here we have 600 amp hours
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of lithium iron phosphate it's the
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Renegy smart lithium iron phosphate
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batteries two 50 amp dc todc mppt solar
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charge controllers from Renegy uh these
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are
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awesome this is the new Renegy Rigo so
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this is their off- grid inverter 3,000 W
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pure sine wave inverter charger and it
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has the 30 amp Shore power plug on the
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other side and then finally to uh manage
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everything we have the victron energy
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links
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distributor uh connecting everything
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from the inverter and check up here we
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have our dtic RTX 2000 air conditioning
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unit that's a 12vt
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unit and uh everything's working great
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we tested it the other day before the
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event and uh pretty awesome last but not
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least we got the Webasto
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air toop 40 heater right
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there and finishing off the back we went
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with the uh Flatline vanco 500 lb drawer
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slide pull out tray and you guys saw me
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in the other video this is inside the
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back of the van and we have uh it
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through bolted to the back of the van so
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if you have anything heavy in here you
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don't have to worry about about it um
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not being
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supported uh the van's also coming with
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a lagoon table Mount and we're going to
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have multiple locations that I'm going
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to show you guys where we're putting the
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table um just so if you're inside you
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want to work somewhere prep food or
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you're outside uh we'll talk about that
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too last but not least on the right side
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we have a 40G Northwest conversion over
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thehe water tank and if you guys have
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not seen how over thehe water tank works
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what's cool about not having these
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panels on here and it mounted is you can
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kind of see the inside of how this works
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so there's a cavity here that allows it
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to come over the wheel well and what's
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nice is you get a lot of benefits one is
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you take care of that area where that
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bump is for the wheel well that some can
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be sometimes hard to build around two
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the width is going to give you enough
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space to put a residential Bosch 4
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gallon hot water heater on the right
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back end side so that way when the panel
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comes through here everything is nice
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and clean uh ready to
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go as we're finishing up the back we
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have the adventure W uh we have the
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Flatline vanco bed system so this is a
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adventure wagon compatible component and
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what it does is it allows you to have a
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full bed you can do north south sleeping
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East West
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sleeping it comes with uh an option to
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have a custom mattress if you want to
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have the north south
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option uh but the best part is there's
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six bolts this whole entire bed system
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comes out so if you want to go to the
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store get some furniture um you can take
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this whole entire thing back and use a
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cargo van uh as a cargo van it's got
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really cool mounts for a uh a Molly
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system so this right here for example is
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a first aid kit and the straps in here
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just kind to come down and we can uh
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strap it into place yeah you can put
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multiple things like that I like doing
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the East West option cuz you you have
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this nice platform that you can hang out
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you can sit uh you can mount stuff to uh
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you know at night time if you want to
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put your cell phone over here when we
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get inside we'll talk about the fast
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charged USB ports that are built into
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the cabinets um when we get
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inside but that's pretty much it from
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the back we're going to go ahead and
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take a look at the front so as we walk
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to the front we're coming underneath our
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fyama f45s awning so this is a 10 foot
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awning we do have a outdoor light so
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right here we've got a rigid
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Industries amber light I like Amber
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because it helps a little bit better
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with the
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bugs uh White's a little bright at night
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time so you this is more comfortable to
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have uh for a longer period of
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time when we finish this panel this is
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going to be a really cool part of the
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van we're going to integrate uh 110
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Outlets that are water resistant up
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front there's going to be a lagoon table
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Mount so that you can come out here with
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your induction stove you can cook
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outside the faucet has enough room to
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come out here top off anything with
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water if you're cooking
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outside uh we'll talk about the
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integrated shower nozzle right here uh
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when we get inside the
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van got a little Nook inside here if you
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guys want to repurpose this for maybe
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some shoes or flip-flop sandals anything
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like that you can kind of tuck it away
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into
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here this is a fully powder coated trim
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kit uh down here from AVC
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rig we do have two Ford options we have
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the factory Ford uh step which is really
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nice and also don't forget this handle
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um some Vans do not come with this
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handle I found out so uh throughout the
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people that have come in the van and
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tested it out this is a really great way
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for them to safely get in and out of the
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van so it's a good positive way to climb
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in uh when we get get back to the shop
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we're going to take a little Notch out
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of this and it's going to be a nice kind
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of grab handle to easily safely get in
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the van so come on in the van and we're
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going to talk about what we got here so
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we're going to start the front we're
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going to make our way to the back up
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here at the top we have a headliner
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shelf just a simple headliner shelf uh I
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covered the brand in a separate video so
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check out the channel for that uh this
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is a lightweight shelf and I just say
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that cuz you don't want to put too much
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weight
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the reason is it's not the quality of
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the Shelf it has to do with the mounting
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locations that are available from Ford
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you only have two bolts here and two
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bolts here
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so uh you're asking a lot of those uh
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shelf mounts so having some nice light
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aluminum up here is a good deal another
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video on the channel we upholstered the
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top of this with the same fabric here so
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it's nice and it doesn't rattle inside
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here we've got of our our bunk window
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covers we've got our insulated
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covers um these covers are from Van
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Essentials uh they're really easy uh
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we're going to put them on the Amazon uh
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the DIY van build cheat sheet so you
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guys can check out these what's what's
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nice is you can get the whole entire
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Ford kit uh off of Amazon at the current
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moment and uh they work really
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well last but not least we have the uh
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vent fan cover for the max fan um we
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actually got this from DIY van uh when
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we purchased the max van so this one's
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good as
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well uh any brand of insulated cover is
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really nice just uh make sure that when
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you buy them you kind of coordinate the
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colors cuz there are some that are very
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light and some that are very dark so uh
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if in case matching covers is something
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that's important to you coming on down
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we have uh Ford factory seats a lot of
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uh viewers today that come to see the
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van think that these are Aftermarket
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seats uh they're actually Ford black
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leather seats um kind of a rarity but we
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do have them in this van they're coupled
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with the
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scopa uh swivels so we got the driver
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and the passenger we've also upgraded uh
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this is necessary if you want to do the
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driver this is a uh handbrake relocation
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bracket um it is I don't want to say too
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invasive but you do need to take some
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time and really plan this out if you
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have an inverter down here from Ford
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you're going to have to remove it
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there's no room for it and if you have
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this bracket down here you'll also have
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to remove that so as you guys can see
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this is a little exposed right here but
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I'm telling you it's the best way is to
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leave it just like that um nice and
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simple and that's going to allow this
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trim right here to to swivel and make
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sure that you don't or that you can
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swivel the um driver's seat and and
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we're going to do an overhead shot right
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here of this seat this is
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our fredman seating flip and fold seat
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it is a a two-seater with seat belts
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with an integrated
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table oh yeah just uh get right here and
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we'll switch
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places so right here what's nice is not
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only do you reclaim all the space inside
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the van you have just nice wide area to
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walk around
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but it has a lock down here so it
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doesn't rattle when you're driving it's
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a Positive
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Locking
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uh little mechanism down here so coming
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up from that you have your release and
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then your safety latch so to bring it
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down you just push your safety latch all
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the way out of the way make sure you
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watch your fingers when you're doing
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this once it's out of the way it comes
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straight down this is a table we'll show
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in just a second pop this up
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and then this is your additional two
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seating with seat belts so if you want
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to take some friends you got plenty of
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room we did the adventure wagon bump out
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right here which gives nice Elbow Room
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to your passengers so kind of think
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about their experience back here in the
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seat normally this is a solid wall with
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no window but we got a seol window with
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a vent with a bump out so it's really
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nice and comfortable back here here and
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right along the shoulder we've got a
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quick charge USB a and type c Port if
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anybody wants to charge their phone or
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devices and that is right by the fridge
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Galley so we'll just show you this
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really quick this is
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the
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table it's so easy to set
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up so if you're cooking over here you
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can prep over here onto this surface you
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got your sink if you do want to cook
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inside um I like to cook outside but if
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you do you got plenty of countertop
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space over
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here and uh it's just easy just nice you
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can people can still sit down you've got
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the Lagoon table Mount right here
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there's also an option over here if you
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do not get this seat to put the table
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Mount but you can see that this takes up
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this room to put this back all you do is
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hold the
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latch so I'm going put this on the bed
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real quick so this safety latch again
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was your fingers and just kind of put on
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your
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knee flip this
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over slide it right
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down into the pocket bring the chair
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up just do a little latch
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here you're
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good we'll talk about um men the entire
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interior yeah so as we're walking
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through the van you'll notice that
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there's a very nice finish and panels so
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that finished upholstery is from from
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Adventure wagon so the
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entire uh inside of this van is an
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adventure wagon system so it is an
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upholstered panels that are thermoform
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plastic so they're really
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nice lrak is the component that actually
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holds the upholster panels in and their
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A-frame is an orange frame that is
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riveted to the van that is a structure
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that holds everything what's nice is
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both of these uh cabinets so these upper
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cabinets and the two kitchen galleries
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are from a company called flat Lan vanco
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the same as the bed system and these
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cabinets uh have Adventure wagon
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compatible mounting locations so we have
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this uh kitchen
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Galley uh bolted to this L trk we have
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this kitchen Galley bolted to this L TR
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so safety is a big uh thing that I um
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have a big proponent of and these
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kitchen gys are positively bolted to the
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van um just to keep you safe uh you know
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in the event of an accident you want to
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make sure all the weight inside here
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does not
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move uh same thing with the Freeman seat
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we have 10 grade eight bolts that are
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holding the seat together uh really four
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would be sufficient but 10 is in the
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mounting plate and we directly bolt that
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to the van chassis so we don't mount it
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to the floor we mount it to the van
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chassis itself so metal metal to
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metal um yeah but the inventure wagon
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kit is a great way to uh be flexible
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with the space so you can add upper
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cabinets they're mounted to the L TR you
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can put them up you can take them out uh
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there's other manufacturers that make
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products So Soft bags some people like
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to do the hard upper cabinets over here
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and do soft bags over the head um you
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know just so you're not bump your head
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in the middle of the night so there's a
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lot of different storage options we use
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the L Trak for our hidden shower that's
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in the floor so underneath
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this we have a a hidden shower pan uh
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that is draining to a 20g gray tank
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that's on the driver side of the
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van if you opt out for
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the forward step as you enter the van
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you can do an additional 20-gallon on
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the passenger side and use it for your
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gray tank and reclaim the space
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underneath here so underneath here we
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have our gray tank for the uh sink we
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also have our fuse panel it's so easy to
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to get to so you don't have to go to the
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back of the
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van uh you know to replace a fuse it's
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right there U we've also got our shower
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curtain so this is what clicks into the
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L track so you have these L track
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mounts they quickly come up
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here lock into place and so you do four
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take your
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shower the max fan is directly over your
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head so whether you're cooking or taking
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a shower you get all the St steam coming
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out of the
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van and again if you do the under mount
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graywater tank you can reclaim all the
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space under here and uh for this van
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don't think that these things are fixed
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if you want to do a different
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orientation it's no big deal um this
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orientation is just to make sure we
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accommodate the flip and fold seat
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moving on back we have uh this area on
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the right side of the van this is a flex
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space it's designed for a isotherm 85
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drawer fridge or you can see we have a
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porta poot here that we can put on
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drawer slides or it's the perfect size
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for a
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microwave so you can put a microwave in
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there if you want to there's come
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there's two drawers here the bottom
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one's going to hold whatever you want we
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have the induction and the shower head
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and the nozzle they're all on soft Clos
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latches same thing with the top and look
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you have a ton it's it's a big drawer
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you put a ton of silverware in there
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again soft
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clothes positive latches nothing
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rattles over here we've got the isotherm
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Cruise
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130 very big
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fridge it's got the ice ice
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tray stainless steel
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front uh I'm going to hop up here talk
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about the cabinets and that's pretty
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much going to be it for us but run the
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bed frame we have this at uh
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okay we'll talk about that um so the bed
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we have a height of 36 in which is
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pretty good for most mountain bikes you
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can raise this higher and you can raise
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it lower um so it's just really based on
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your preference um up here in the
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ceiling we went with the uh the bamboo
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uh option from Adventure wagon we got
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the max fan
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7500k so we have the remote over there
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speaking of remote let's talk about our
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power system so right now we're working
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with the brand new renig G1 and this is
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the M1 controller so this is going to
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take care of monitoring our
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inverter our shore power and our solar
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so we can go to our inverter and find
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out how that's taken in power when we're
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hooked up to shore power we can go to
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our DC todc charger we can find out how
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much our solar is bringing in we can
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find out when we're driving obviously
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we're not going to be standing up you
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can use the app on your phone but the
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app on the phone is going to allow you
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to just going to pull it up real
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quick it's called the DC it's called the
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DC home app and so it's a mirror image
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of what's up here so whatever you have
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here uh you're going to be able to see
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the device you'll see the solar come in
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when you're driving you'll see the how
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much the alternator's
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charging oh yeah um what's pretty wild
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about this system is when you get to
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uh back up
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here when you get to uh the battery
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specifications uh there's more
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information in this this system will
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give you more information than you could
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ever dream of individual cell voltages
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of every single battery the batteries
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are actually networked together so um if
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you want N Out on that go for it but the
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main reason I wanted this system is it
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actually is is very simple you have one
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screen One battery monitor you know how
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much
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uh how long it's going to take to do a
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full charge with the power coming in
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from solar and your current current
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use last you have three buttons we have
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our interior lights six here we've got
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our overhead cabinet
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lights so when you actually open the
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cabinet up you can the cabinet is lit
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from the inside so it does two things it
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looks really nice at night time you can
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turn the main lights off and just have
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this light on and uh the last switch is
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your outside awning light that amber
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light we showed
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earlier so that's our lights Max vanan
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we just talked about
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7500k individual manual button for the
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inverter I find that's the easiest way
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so you don't have to do your app or the
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phone you just turn it on get to cooking
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and then we have our rasto smart temp
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3.0 that is a Bluetooth controlled
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heater if you're in bed you wake up you
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don't want to move you just go on your
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phone heat the van up on a cold day nice
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and
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comfortable again these cabinets are
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completely
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removable um we'll finish up with the
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domenic RTX 2000 right over the
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bed uh stay nice and cool on those hot
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days and uh I'm going to end with the
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very front of the van I'm going to show
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you that we actually have the Ford
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Raptor Style Grill in the
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front
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so we put these on all of our bands and
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uh looks super
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cool so if you guys are worried about
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not getting the transit Trail this is a
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great option uh this is a true Ford
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product this is from the UK Ford Transit
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Trail over in the UK so this is what
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they have on the van you know Ford's not
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going to change everything on the front
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so this snaps in perfectly and uh works
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great we patter coated the factory
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wheels black they look really awesome we
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have the BF goodw wrench K2
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25576 uh that is the biggest size that
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you can put on here of an over siiz tire
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and not
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rub um last but not least I'm going to
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grab this we're going to go up top look
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at the solar and uh we'll close out this
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little video and actually give you a
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little aerial view of the Expo itself so
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we got a flatline vanco roof rack this
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is the version 1.0 2.0 is the version we
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put on on Thomas's van got two 100 W
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reny panels up front max air fan 220
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watt new power and that's right NE WP
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W solar panel this is specific because
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you can see how tight our tolerances are
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we have that much space for the
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fan solar panel and then right there for
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the
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dedic got all of our mc4 connectors
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cleanly in the
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van appropriate inline fuse for the
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solar and uh yeah here's a a Pano of the
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the
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Expo all right guys and last but not
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least this van is for sale so we've got
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about two more weeks and we're going to
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finish up everything on this van uh but
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if you are interested in this 2020 Ford
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Transit it only has 96 miles on it uh we
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actually trailered it here to the EV
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event to make sure we baby this and
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really took care of it so make sure uh
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you guys check out the link in the
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description below because we're going to
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have a link to all the details about the
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solar the power um uh more details on
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all the stuff that we actually did on
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the walkthrough of this van so if you're
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interested in purchasing this van go
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ahead and reach out to me the link is in
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the uh description below uh also you can
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reach out to me sales Odyssey
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customs.com that's a direct email to me
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and and uh yeah hope you guys enjoyed
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the video and we'll see you in the next
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