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Old 08-25-2019, 05:55 PM   #1
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Picking up our 2020 Impact 415 this Wednesday. Any insights on this camper?

Bought a Ram 3500 dually with 4:10 gears and aisen transmission.
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Old 08-25-2019, 06:56 PM   #2
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Nice setup. Welcome to the forum.
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Old 08-25-2019, 08:57 PM   #3
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Wow

2020 impact 415/2020(I’m guessing) 3500 dually - you’re quite the under achiever (lol) welcome to the forum!
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Old 08-26-2019, 04:45 AM   #4
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Picking up our 2020 Impact 415 this Wednesday. Any insights on this camper?

Bought a Ram 3500 dually with 4:10 gears and aisen transmission.

Not sure you have enough 5er for your TV!

Welcome to the forum, glad to see there are still those that do their research!
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Old 08-26-2019, 06:08 AM   #5
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Welcome to the forum. That's sure a lot of trailer! You've got yourself a nice set up. What's your experience? My guess is you're not a rookie at towing.
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Old 08-26-2019, 07:57 AM   #6
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I strongly suggest you plan fuel stops carefully. On my first stop at a fuel station with my first fiver, I found I wasn't real good at estimating how close I could turn the rig next to one of those big metal pipes they have next to the pumps and ended up learning how to do some body work. Was so far away, didn't see the damage till we were at our destination. If I had to do it over, would learn how to extend tow mirrors (who-da thunk there were tow mirrors on my truck) and go into a big empty parking lot with a couple of SOFT cones or such and practice getting around. Your new rig looks great, by the way and I expect you will learn how to get around dragging it behind your new truck quickly.

Second bit of advice.... I do all our driving and I ask my missus to go sit somewhere while I take a stab at backing into a space. A witness nearby makes the backing up time triple. I also get totally confused if she stands to the year and waves her arms in circles. I still haven't caught on how to turn the wheel by arm circle directions. Back up slow and don't be afraid to get out to check where things are if there is anything harder than the trailer to make friends with.
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Old 08-29-2019, 10:23 AM   #7
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this is our second fifth wheel. The other was a 35' toy hauler too. Just brought it back from Tampa yesterday. The rain was insane but it tracked nice and other than some chucking, it was very safe.

Decided that we will go full time and needed a setup that was never going to be under-powered or unsafe.
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Old 08-29-2019, 10:39 AM   #8
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the beauty is that Loves and Pilot diesel stations are everywhere (which are easy to enter and exit). I purchased the Copilot GPS for routing and use our uconnect traffic app in the truck to get diesel locations.


Thanks for the advice. This camper is L O N G
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Old 08-29-2019, 12:25 PM   #9
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the beauty is that Loves and Pilot diesel stations are everywhere (which are easy to enter and exit). I purchased the Copilot GPS for routing and use our uconnect traffic app in the truck to get diesel locations.


Thanks for the advice. This camper is L O N G
Towing a big 5er with a diesel getting fuel is much easier than fighting the cars at the pumps for gas, there's always a truck stop near by.
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