All great points. Thanks for sharing.

We agree those few extra inches make a difference and gives us a little more confidence it going off road. Thanks for watching.

Thank you, we love hiking in the Gorge too. Glad to bring back some good memories.

I thought he was going to scarp the front too. I will say we were both really impressed. Thanks so much for watching.

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It does affect the speedometer. When it shows we're going 60 we're really going around 64 and it says we're going 70 we're really going around 76.

Thanks, we hope to have many off road adventures.

Anastasia will always be one of our favorites. Thanks so much for following along.

I would not take the Ekko “way” off road, but with the lift we do feel more confident in going most places. With everything there is a compromise, we really liked the size of the sprinter for driving but we love all the space the Ekko provides with living and storage. So we may not go as far as we would with the sprinter but we still can go on dirt roads and find some awesome spots.

We may try to go next year. Thanks for the suggestion.

Freedomvango was great, I think you will like working with these guys. They did put spacers on the duallies, but that’s probably because of the new tires we had them put on.

We do have pictures but since the van does have to same items/weight in the van we felt showing that would be a incorrect prospective.

I think we are going to love the lift and the places it will take us, without me (Lynn) being so worried… and yes Freedomvango was awesome.

You will love old NC 105, check out Linville while you are there.

We didn't even check about that. Maybe we should have. Some say it does cancel the warranty for some parts of the suspension.

There will be many more adventures for sure. Thanks for watching.

It’s one of favorite places… but we love the mountains.

That is good to hear. So far it’s been a great experience for us too.

Good luck making that decision. It’s a big one.

Thanks, we appreciate your comment.

That is good to hear. Thanks for sharing.

Will do. I hope Ford can fix the TPM.

That makes sense. We think it was a good choice for us.

You bet. We are home for another few weeks.

Thanks, we appreciate you watching.

We got the VanCompass Topo 2.0. We did the research but I’m sure most installers would help with the decision. It did help that the installer we chose had an EKKO and that is what he had on his.

Thank you so much for sharing your story. I commend you on what you are doing durning your retirement. We retired early from our corporate jobs so we could chase our dreams… for Owen it was his music. It’s funny where your journey takes you, Owen’s music lead us to be very involved with the homeless, mostly in the Myrtle Beach area and beyond. But the physical strain of playing everyday for many years took it toll and we had to slow down and he eventually stopped. That being said, we didn’t start out where we are today, it’s just a small part of our journey. We retired from our corporate jobs of 35+ years, worked another 10 years and believe it or not it’s a lot of work running a KZfaq channel, which provides us a means to travel. We feel very blessed for the things we get to do and see and for as long as we love what we are doing we will continue to share it. I’m not sure why I felt the need to share more of our story… maybe to justify why we do what we do, or maybe to say we didn’t set out to be doing what we are doing now, it’s be a growing experience and I’m sure we will keep growing and our lives will hopefully keep changing.

Please be assured that my wife & I think how you're spending your retirement is wonderful. Six years ago at age 62 we both thought that's what we'd be doing too. After all what could be better than traveling? But now at 68 I see that was FOMO whispering in our ears. We really liked 42 to 62, our home & our weekends. Especially once the three kids flew off to WA, VT & NC from here in NM. The only problem was we were burning out at our jobs. Then at 62 I stumbled on Greenskeeping and my wife found she could be our town's Librarian Assistant. Not only did these new jobs make us happy but combined with early Pensions we could delay SSN and actually still have more income than when we were working at our old careers. Not a cool retirement but a win/win. And now that we're drawing SSN beyond full-retirement age with no claw back ... well hilariously we're making way more money than our friends who stayed in our old careers "AND" we are way better off than those of our friends who took SSN early combined with their early Pensions. The added benefit to having some of our highest earning years now is that we are doing it while enjoying what essentially have become "new careers"; careers by the way which will allow us between 62 to 82? to replicate the life we loved between 42 and 62 but this time without financial pressure. And for us that was the key. The financial pressure of trying to have fun, while on a fixed income negates the joy of being retired for us. Better to continue working and maybe at 82 take some cool trips. Yes, yes you only live once. But trying to have fun while pinching pennies as you're worried about money is horrible. IMHO better to just re-do 42 to 62; which we already know we'll enjoy between 62 to 82 than attempt something new. And as you mentioned your KZfaq Channel is a ton of work. We don't see folks taking our path. They are either you, trying to be you or wishing they were you. I'd rather us be us; watching you be you. LOL!

That would be a good thing to get from Santa 😁. We installed Falken Wildpeak 245/75R16 and they did add spacers on the rear tires. This is not the lift that cut off the rear shocks. Thanks for watching.

Yes, it did only by about out 5%. Not sure about the warranty.

You have to open all the cabinets very carefully after a ride like that. We weren’t fully packed so that does make things worse sometimes. It can be hard on a vehicle.

Call and ask to speak to Chris. Tell him we told you to call.

Wow! Just like our van. Yes Ford was able to replace it and then reset all sensors and it started working.

They told us the faulty one was actually cracked.

Thanks for sharing.

I don’t think it would void the warranty.

We installed Falken Wildpeak 245/75R16, we have 7 of them… all the way around and one spare. The wheels are what came with the van.

Hey! Congrats! We put the 245s on so we could get the additional 2" of lift from them. We did add the spaces and there's been zero clearance or rubbing. I did check to see if we picked up any straggler rocks between the back two tires after the dirt road adventure and that was all good too. But, if I were you I'd check that after dirt roads too. That can cause some serious issues with tire rub. Thanks for being with us. Let us know how your Ekko journey goes!

@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle How much change in your fuel mileage with the 245s?

@@cegray5 Not a definite answer yet. It looks like it may be as much is half a mile per gallon but that may just have been where we were driving and how fast I was driving too.

@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle Thanks for the quick reply ! Forgot to ask..Which rims did you go with and where did you get them? I was watching the video to see but couldn't tell. Thanks again !

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Soon our lucky Earth Roamer friends. Heading to Newfoundland in a few weeks. This is a precaution to make sure we can get off road there. 👍❤️

Not that we can tell... but I bet it does a little, just due to the bigger tires. It already just got about 12 light poles to a gallon anyway so we don't check that often because it just makes us go geez!

The lift is really coming in handy on this Canada trip.

No, we did not.

@@VANTREKKINGlifestyle if you want someone to do that…my guy in Vegas has done it for several of us now.

Larger diameter tires revolve/spin slower versus smaller diameter tires at a given velocity (speed). If your speedometer (factory spec tires) indicates 60 mph, most non-certified speedometers report speeds at about a 5-8% "exaggeration"...chances are you're really going probably 57 mph. If you're actually moving at at measured speed of 60 mph, your speedometer would indicate 62 or 63 mph. So, if you tire diameter increases by 15%, I'd say that your speedometer indicates 60 mph and you're probably going maybe 61 or perhaps 62 mph. Some mapping apps (such as Waze) report your GPS-estimated speed, and these are generally more accurate versus your non-certified speedometer. (Police vehicles often are equipped with certified speedometers, and if the police vehicle has factory-spec tires of the correct factory spec diameter, the speedometer will report the speed correctly.)

What Robert said! That's an awesome technical answer that neither of us could have provided.

Short answer... Yes, it's now off... as is the MPG calculation. We show less miles traveled per rotation of the tire than we actually travel and the speed shown is 6-8% lower than we're actually going. Fixing it is easy for us. We usually drive 5 above speed limit when rolling on long trips so now we just set it on the speed limit. We also added a rear camera that is attached to the rear mirror and it constantly shows GPS speed so we also have an accurate speed if we need it.

Negligible difference as far as we can tell.

That is for sure. Owen has dirt in his blood.

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First of many so it gets less expensive with every view 👍