Hondo Garage's New Thing

You may have just saved me some money and hard work. I may just mount my fridge to my wood platform and say no to the fridge slide. I wasnt thinking about the possibility of this.

 

I’ll take a six pack if you’re ever in SoCal lol

 

Closest I will get is the grand canyon in November. Lol. I usually carry beer in my fridge on trips. I was going to build a diy fridge slide but I think reaching in the side would be a lot more simple. K.I.S.S.

 

I have a cfx50 dometic side hinge fridge and you can swap what side its on n a few minutes. Works out well for this application.

 

The indel B fridge if you fully open the top will hit the side of the canopy though. 3/4 is fine though

 

2.0 version?? Any more details on that?

 

I hate to agree with a guy with a Chevy... (just kidding @I_eat_tacos) but yeah come on with the updates guys!!!!

You’ve sold in excess of 1 Million bucks in campers, which is awesome, but how about some updates? Changing the graphics? How about an email to paid customers as to why? Switch upgrade or change? Let us know... I belive mine is supposed to be built the week of July 2nd but I haven’t heard anything since that estimate email.

You have a lot of paying customers, that obviously already plunked down a decent amount of money on these, which allowed for the huge shop expansion. I know I am very interested in knowing what’s going on, and when I can expect you heading this way (NY).

I realize that everyone is busy but take the 5 mins a day and post up or email out some updates. I’ve had to change two camping trips so far around the delayed delivery (compared to my initial order) which is fine, but it sure would help to know what’s up so I can cancel and or change things as I need too.

Your products are amazing, your customer service (IE delivery’s and meet ups) are awesome. Just don’t forget about your fan base on here. We need some lovin’ too!!!

Thank you for your long hours and hard work, I look forward to some more updates!!!

Oh and if it’ll speed up your trip East I have a fridge full of Heady Topper (top 100 IPA’s in the world) and a friend that works at Dogfish Head Brewery has 16 bottles of 120 min IPA that she’s bringing me this weekend. My Garage beer fridge is ready for my GFC install!!!

 

Trust me. I feel you. I paid up front a lot of cash and waited a long time too. The updates were few and far, but they are doing it. They are making it work. Graeme is literally hauling ass across half the country and Wiley is doing his best with designing and creating amazing add ons. Sit tight man, well worth it all

 

You don’t need to remind me of this. I Paid the very first day I could too. Been here since the beginning. I’m just anxious to get going is all. As I’m sure a lot of people are.

We are all sitting tight, what choice do we have. Any idea how many have been delivered so far anyone? Are they into the 30’s yet?

 

With all the planned accessories, it looks like GFC will be getting my mod money this summer. Sorry Goose Gear, maybe next year.
$50 DIY Tacoma Bed Plate:

 

Awesome... so when was #20 installed? I’m 41, so I guess I’m still going to be a while. I’ve got 16 days off starting Sept 28th, I’m sure it’ll be here by than. I hope.

 

I’m patient but I have to agree. A little more info would go a long way.

 

. Owned my share of taco’s, but unimpressed with current offerings. Just happy GFC included most all makes/models capable of raging off the beaten path! Have to see what they come up with on the mounting system; my bed has holes for gripping the bed near the tailgate.

 

Considering I’m not going to thumb through 194 pages, on a 3rd gen I can only assume with the overhang the gps signal through the shark fin is non existent and likely a week FM signal as well?

 

This will get you up to speed. Courtesy of @DoorDing https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/hondo-garages-new-thing.516490/page-52#post-17133730

Thats the F.A.Q.

 

Goin fishin?

 

I don't think you guys realize how much effort it takes to send a big email out or do updates. For one I'm sire they ha e a nice formated graphic design for email blasts. That takes time to setup. It's not just typing. Then God knows how many forums there are out there with tons of people just like us constantly asking questions about it. It takes a lot of time to check multiple forums. We all do it for fun and in passing but if you really think about it...it takes up a good chunk of our day.

You can't just hire someone and sit them on a computer to do that either. They need to be passionate about the product and know literally everything about it to be able to stand alone as much as possible to answer every weird question thrown at them as possible. Hiring someone that is constant having to check with their boss about a question...not helpful for the boss.

I'm sure the guys knew this product would take off...but come on. I don't think they were expecting quite the massive response they got. It's huge. And they are small company.

They will work it out. It'll take some time and hopefully it'll work out sooner than later.

 

I think I was plenty nice about my concern. I get it there is a lot going on. But it has been 6 weeks since the so called weekly updates of which there were 2. I could’ve cared less if there were no updates, but the point is if you commit to weekly updates and neglect that then you set yourself up for failure. All I was asking for is an update, nothing more. If it takes them 4 more weeks to get to mine then so be it, I’m patient. I Just would like to know so I can plan trips around it. Either way it sounds like Graeme/Wiley are aware and sending an update soon.

 

I’m writing up an email update tonight. But for now I’ll
leave you with this photo of Tom making lots of tents:

 

The more i read about this the more intrigued I am. I do have a couple questions which may or may not have already been addressed:

1) Accessibility: Is the only access through the bed of the truck? I showed this to my wife and that was her first question. She didnt like the idea of having a bit of an obstacle course to get in or how we can close the truck bed and stuff from inside the truck.

2) Dust: How well does it all seal up. It looks like the composite flooring is just free floating on the bottom of the tent which makes me wonder if dust and what not can creep up into the mattresses of the tent

3) Disassembly: How easy is it to mount and unmount from the truck bed. With the tent on I can't fit in my garage and we just were hit with baseball size hail that wrecked the south of colorado Springs totaling cars, campers, and roofs.