Escapod Topo 2 Walk-Around with Chris the Owner! | ROA Off-Road

[Music] what's up everyone this is Nate with far away we're here in South Carolina with a very special guest Chris here hey there welcome uh this is Chris from escapad trailers uh we're based out of Utah excited to be working with Roa here in South Carolina yeah so we are in front of a teardrop truly built for the South and I've seen pretty much every teardrop out there and this stands apart for many reasons so I wanted to walk through everything with Chris here and go over all the features of the estopod it'll be a quick video we've got other videos out there Chris and his team they've done several but I wanted to go through some of the main features why I believe this is the nicest teardrop out there so Chris tell us a little bit about the construction and hit on the installation and some of the features that makes it especially good for the South yeah totally so we talked about the construction we talked about a one-piece fiberglass shell what that really means is there are no seams in this at all the material that crosses all of the corners uh is all integral to the body inside of that laminate structure is actually insulation which gives the body its strength uh so this teardrop doesn't have an interior structure then we just plop a fiberglass shell over the fiberglass is its structure so if you hit this this baby is solid um what that does is allows us to give unique shape to fit more material on the inside so things like Mechanicals uh insulation and then some of the space that we have in there for storage things like shoe storage and hand pill closet so it's pretty cool yeah so most trailers it's going to be walls roof and you're somehow you know bolting stapling yeah securing those together right but this is a single solid piece right molded right and you yeah no Fasteners at all in the exterior body so this is all done with composite so fiberglass resin making it all completely structural so we don't need any of that interior structure at all yeah so that's going to be incredible for longevity leaks and insulation yeah absolutely we cover that with a five year warranty too so uh class leading warranty for those items and it just it just makes a ton of sense for the software it's like today it's been raining all day you guys see a lot more of that than we do on the on the west coast so in Utah we don't see a lot of that rain here we do and so we think the top of two is is the best for the South County yeah yep release and for the heat yeah up top we have a Dometic 12 volt air conditioner so you can keep this cool if it's 100 degrees outside it will stay nice and cool and then another thing I really love about these is that it is a true Four Season it has a true mccombie so it has ducted into the cabin and ducted to the back the kitchen area the water tank that's all going to stay warm I was talking to them and they have a customer up in Alaska he's been camping now staying nice and warm no issues and these are built out outside of Park City Utah so right you know you know we never called coals yeah for sure I think it's about extending the camping season on on all sides right so as the temperature starts to rise we have insulation which keeps it cooler in the cabin 12 volt air conditioning you can run off-grid and then as you start your temperatures start to drop uh you're not so worried about uh your mechanical systems freezing like your water system uh because all of that's behind the installation that we're able to run heat ducts to the water compartments yeah awesome yeah cool why don't you can look down here at the suspension because that's another thing that really sets this apart from most other teardrops out there so Chris where do you guys get these suspension systems yeah so this is a proprietary suspension called The Free Ride uh suspension this is a coilover trailing arm design uh completely galvanized front to back for longevity uh we were able to develop a suspension uh that is suited for our 1900 pound trailer what you end up having is a really beefy suspension on a lightweight trailer uh and what happens is uh we're able to um really design in reactivity into the suspension uh so it keeps the forces from traveling into the body uh so our suspension does soak up things like washboards and larger hits but it also travels down the highway extremely well we don't get trailer sway when you go over a big bump or a pothole uh the trailer really settles behind you and that's really see if I just apply a little bit of weight to the trailer you know you start to get a really reactive suspension just by providing a little away and so while you're traveling down the road the trailer is traveling behind you yeah most a lot of teardrops will claim they have off-road suspension independent and it's a timbering piece of rubber yeah you're gonna be on a bumpy road yeah you'll look behind you and the thing will be bouncing right all over the road rubberized suspensions are are durable I mean like that you've seen them on military trailers for years you've seen them on Thousand millions of of RVs uh the problem with rubber is it expands in the same way it contracts uh with our suspension you do have dampening in the suspension so we have a shock that doesn't allow the spring to extend back at full rate and so it really calms the suspension down and so it won't bounce behind you why don't we take a swing over here to the driver's side we've got the annex set up so this is a rope awning and we put the walls on this is completely enclosed but there's bugs or if it's really windy you can set this out and you can crawl right outside from the cabin into your enclosure and a lot of the pain points that people have with the teardrop trailer is going to be there's nowhere to stand up inside there's nowhere to change or there's no bathroom inside but you know you can zip zip this on in less than five minutes and then you have a changing room you have a bathroom you have a place to eat dinner and hang out if it's raining or or windy yeah like you said it solves a lot of those concerns right you know a place to change um in a teardrop is really great a place to have dinner if it's raining or if it's windy away from the bugs away from the elephants it's great and it really extends the the usability of the camping or for the camera awesome let's check out the kitchen so my favorite part about the kitchen is going to be not just how they've they've placed the stove low so you can actually access it a lot of times they have them up here my wife is very short and she loves to do the cooking so this is actually usable for her and this isn't your typical Dometic stove that you see in most trailers this thing isn't going to Rattle it's not gonna actually fall out and it's built Chris correct me if I'm wrong but this was built by the Marine industry yeah this is built for the Marine industry this is a French company called Eno it like you said it provides more quality uh for something as simple as a stove where you want just to work when you roll onto Camp you don't want to roll into camp and find out that you know all the screws fell out of it and you wanted to make sure you know we want to make sure that it does work when you get to your new campsite not huge I'm not super familiar with this brand but I've been less than impressed with the other brands out here in this one too much dirtier we've used them all yeah we absolutely have we love the you know Stills they don't know well I think there are some other videos out there that go into detail on everything you know you guys have masterfully planned everything where everything sits easy to access Electronics you're not having to unscrew panels right and crack out your toolbox just to access the batteries you can just take these out back here is the truma system so we do have some more videos you guys have some videos that are more in depth of all of the features I really just wanted to get a quick walk around and introduce Chris and announce the partnership that we're going to be working with escapod and I'm so excited because like I said I've seen all the teardrops out there and as soon as I saw the escapod I was blown away and I've been like talking to you guys wanting to carry this product because I'm so impressed so we're we're here in South Carolina we've got a location in Utah and the escapod facilities in Utah so you can see their facility they have a sales Center over in Utah and any questions you guys have feel free to reach out yeah thank you we're excited to work with Roi we truly believe this is a great partnership and and excited to get escapon east of the Mississippi Mississippi I know you guys been asking for a long time and so thanks for for helping us out with that and we're excited for partnership yeah awesome so it's 801 860-0035 if you guys want to reach out