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Question Canadian full time van dweller

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I lived the life in the US and it was easy to get registration and residency etc in places like Vermont, S Dakota, Florida and Texas. In Canada how does one actually live full time, and maintain provincial healthcare, mailing and residency?

As a new Canadian I am struggling trying to find a solution.


r/vandwellers • • 9h ago

Van Life What's the Ford Transit of minivans?

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I saw someone post some Honda Odyssey pictures today, and it got me wondering if there is a Ford Transit of minivans. What's your opinion?


r/vandwellers • • 22h ago

Tips & Tricks insurance for agreed upon value

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I have a 2022 Thor Sanctuary 19L that I recently spent $83,000 renovating. My current GEICO policy pays the RV’s actual cash value if it’s totaled, so I’m looking for a policy that would account for the upgrades.

Has anyone insured a substantially renovated factory-built RV for an agreed value? Which company did you use, and did they require an appraisal?

I’m based in Colorado and would be looking to insure the van for around $173,000. Thanks!


r/vandwellers • • 23h ago

Question Grey water tank sizing

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What size should I get for a grey water tank? Its just me and my cat and I don't have a shower set up. I was wanting to be able to stay off grid for about 2 weeks. I saw a 26 gallon one and a 36 gallon one but I wasn't sure how much water is typically used for a 2 week span.


r/vandwellers • • 16h ago

Euro / UK New Eco-worthy 280Ah LiFePO4 stuck in standby. Called tech support and they said i need to charge it at exactly 12.4v 20a for 2-10hrs and it might come back to life.. I'm on the road, how?!

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I'm having a problem with my 12V 280Ah LiFePO4 Bluetooth battery and it's utterly ruining our trip right now. I've spent the first two days of it in a car park crawling around checking every part of the electrical system, but everything gives the values expected.

The battery app is permanently showing Standby, 98%, 0 A and 0 W. In two full days of testing and running differently loads from different places, these values haven't changed at all in the app. I have power but only when the sun is on the solar panels. Cover them and everything goes black, so nothing everything or night.

I found another owner who had the same issue and fixed it by getting into advanced settings in the app and turning charge and discharge off, waiting 10secs, then turning it back on. Didn't work for me though.

Any ideas how to get this brand new battery working?

Is this a software bug that could be updated so it doesn't happen again?

Any ideas where you might find a consistent charge at 12v 20a for 10hrs in Portugal?


r/vandwellers • • 34m ago

Van Life Left a clean sink 2 months ago, came back to this. WTAF?!

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As the title says, I left the van parked for for 2 months as had broken down. I cleaned everything when I parked up, but just opened up the sink (which is covered, tho not air tight) to find this!

WTF is it?!?!

Can I just clean with regular cleaner / that’s gonna be safe for my water system? Or do I need something special here?!

Help?!


r/vandwellers • • 22h ago

Question Where do you get water

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Just a quick question, where do you fill your water jugs when you’re on the road. Trying to think, hose at a gas station? Sink somewhere? Get jugs of water at Walmart? Just going to get a couple of 5 gallon jugs and got to wondering where to fill them up when I’m on the road . .


r/vandwellers • • 13h ago

Pictures Ran into the Wienermobile today

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Only six have ever been made of this generation so it was pretty cool seeing one in person.