I’ve Never Seen a Sprinter Camper Van Layout This Smart!

I don't know what it's missing. Maybe like a Peloton bike in the inside might be about the only thing. But yeah, this van is fully modified. This is a great option for a customer who wants to take their home on the road. This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel. Very happy to have Chris with Sequoia & Salt back on the show. Today, he's gonna give us a tour of their newest creation called the Abyss. And this thing has everything. So join us for the tour. What's going on, Patrick? This is Chris here from Sequoia & Salt Camper Vans. Behind me, I have a brand new camper that we just finished for a customer called the Abyss. It's on a Mercedes Sprinter, 170, all-wheel drive chassis. It has all of the bells and whistles you're gonna want for overlanding. So let's start on the outside of the van. We have our nice running boards. Those are from Rome Built. We added some Black Rhino 17-inch rims with KO3 tires. We went with a Falcon Suspension Kit. That's from VanCompass, the 4.3. We added Baja Design Ditch Lights. Baja Design LP6s up top with both amber and white light. We went with the 9-inch LP9s in our bumper. This is, again, a Rome Built bumper. Really great. It's got a 12,000-pound winch from Warn in the front. As you walk over to the side, you're gonna notice, again, the running boards. We added ARB Air Compressor Kit on both sides of the van so you can easily just air down the sides and then just inflate the tires as we go up. This is a nice big roof deck. We have 400 watts of solar on the roof. We have, I'll let you get up here. So we have 400 watts of solar. This is a FVC Safari Roof Rack. We have a Dometic RTX 2000 12-volt AC unit. We have a Starlink Mini and then a nice big skylight above the bed. And if you notice, what's really nice about this Safari Roof Rack from Flatline Vanco, it has L-track clips throughout it for tons of mountability. All right, coming down. Hopefully I don't blow off the roof here. We wanted to, on that roof there, we wanted to add, we wanted, the way we set up our solar panels, we wanted to leave the customer a nice roof deck up there so she could climb out of her window, her hatch window, and set up on the roof. So we added windows throughout. This is the bunk window from Van Windows Direct. We have ShorePower adapter on the side of the van. That comes standard. Underneath the camper, we added a skid guard right on the rear differential. In the back of the van, you'll see the Flatline Vanco rear tire carrier with the accessory ladder, all built into one. Nice big tire, like you saw. Another mounting plate from Flatline Vanco and the Roam-built large box, nice storage box in the inside here, or right on the outside, rather, as I open up. We added a CURT tow hitch receiver, a Wolfbox camera up top, which is right above the reverse camera that comes standard with the Mercedes Sprinter. Screens on both the sliding door and the rear doors. So you'll notice in the back, we have our blackout shades. These are made by VanMade Gear. We have some rear door panels with some extra storage. This is great extra storage, especially if you want to bring your camera and some batteries along, or your flip-flops, so you all put them in here. This is made from Van Essentials. You'll see our awning pole, we mount it to the top. That's the elevator bed that's in its up position. And down here, we have our exterior hot water shower. This is our mixing valve, and this is our quick connection port for our shower and our water pump, obviously. Right in the middle, you'll notice we have a drawer. Our floor, this is our airplane floor. This is a lawn ridge floor. On this side here, this is our 12-volt fuse panel and breaker panel, all built into one. Our walls, we added GoCode trim on the outside. We feel that this is a really nice trim. And like I said before, we have screens. These are from Bugwall, I believe the company is, that makes these screens, so they're really nice. All right, so let's go inside. And obviously, the rear outlet for your exterior accessories. If you wanna pull up on this side of the van, you will notice our exterior water fill. This is great so you don't get any water bleeding inside of your camper when you, if you accidentally forget when you're filling it up. Our bunk windows. In front of our bunk windows, we have our slider windows from Van Windows Direct. Our Fiamma F45 awning, which then brings us into, oh yeah, and the awning clips that are on the side of the vehicle. We have a bungee, nice little bungee storage as you walk in. Drop-down table with magnet. Nice little grab when you walk inside of the cabin. Pop-up countertop extension. We add a nice little magnet as well so it doesn't dangle around. Dual swivel seats, this is very standard in a lot of our vans. Above that, we have our drape. This is your headliner shelf with a drape built into it. So it's easy to just black out. You know, just drop that when you need to go to the bathroom, on the road, or if you don't feel like putting up your blackout shades. Okay? So in the front here, you'll see we have our wolf box. This is our wolf box monitor. And then we have our S-Pod. Our S-Pod has all of our lights in this switch panel along with our air compressor. Okay? So I'm walking back into the cabin. This is our galley, galley number one. Tons of overhead compartment space. This is our power system. So we have a Victron Energy 600 amp hour lithium system along with 35 gallons of fresh water. We have 20 gallons of gray water. This has 400 watts of solar and a 3000 watt inverter system. It's got 12 volt for the AC, for the star link in the inside. And then we have our accessory switches for our lights right all built inside of here. You'll see we have our self-supporting hinges and then our hard shell laminate. I really like this laminate. It has a nice texture to it. So it has a feeling, not only does it look cool. You can see, appreciate all of our trim work that we do inside of the vans. This is all imported bamboo. We finish all of the imported bamboo. Right in the center here, we have our Dometic RTX 2000 AC unit. Okay? Brings us into our bathroom. So this bathroom, we have a quick connect shower system. So you can use this shower head for the exterior shower as well as the interior shower from a quick connect function. We added a grab handle as you get in. Maxxair dome vent fan with a light integrated. And then on the floor here, we have, you'll notice down, bag toilet. So this toilet has 50 bags in its cartridge. It takes a hundred seconds for it to fully seal the bag and then drop it down. We, our customers absolutely love these toilets. It changes camper vans as we know it because the toilet, if you have a camper, you know the toilet is the stinky part. So we like to give you extra space inside of the cabin or inside of the shower. So we put inside, we have a Nautilus shower door. Let's go through the bottom of the galley. So we added these nice little locking clips. So if you have some heavier items inside, they're not gonna open up the door. Okay. This customer's a foodie. So she has all sorts of storage for everything she plans on bringing with her. Again, the nice lock, sponge drawer, nice deep sink, tractable sink head. And then on the bottom here, ton of space underneath. If you see on the bottom here, we add accessibility. Our entire van has accessibility for service. Very, very important to us. You can take off the panels of any part of this van and you can access all the wiring throughout the van. Serviceability is pretty straightforward with us because we understand a camper that's gonna be on the road at some point needs to have some kind of service done to it. We added some toe kick lighting and then that toe kick lighting is connected to our lights underneath our cabinets and then our lights in the bed section. Can you see that over there? Okay, so now they're all built on dimmers. So what we did was we know that at nighttime you might not want to sleep with these on, but you might want to sleep with just the lights on the bottom. I've said in my previous videos, I'm like a huge fan of cutting up the light inside of a camper. So we added a cutoff switch here. So it cuts off these lights here and just keeps the lights on the bottom. So at nighttime, you can keep, turn this off and just have your kick lights on. All right. We went with our marine shiplap that we make in house. We have a, this is an AquaHot 125D, which is a hydronic water heater. So it's a hydronic system. It's instantly hot and it has not only heat, but it has hot water all built into the same unit. Obviously you see, we have an outlet over here. We have an outlet on this side. These two are false doors because this is going to have where our toilet slides out above here. When you pull this, this is our induction stove top. The customer didn't want to have it on the counter. So we just built it and put inside the drawer. So above the induction drawer, we have our pantry. We put adjustable shelf pits with inside of this pantry. So depending on what the customer plans on bringing, she can actually change the height of the shelves in here. Over here, we have an extra nice big overhead locker, bamboo countertops. So on both sides of our galleys, you'll notice that we engraved some really cool artwork on the back walls. Brings us into our Isotherm 160, which is a huge refrigerator and a huge freezer. Like I said, this customer is a foodie. So she says she's going to be planning to cook all of her meals inside of this van. So she wanted some good space. All right, so before we head in the back, I wanna show you a cool little drawer we added. So we gave the customer drawers on both sides of the step. So as we go into our lounge, this is a convertible lounge. So that's why we added this strip here originally was just so that this table and extra pieces of wood can fill in the middle and this becomes a nice big sleeper. So all of the middle pieces of wood are all stored right in here. And then we added some little hooks so it makes it easy to get them in and out. So this is a Sunbrella fabric. And on the bottom, you can see we added our non-stick. So this thing does not slide around when we're hanging out in it. They're three inch cushions. On the bottom of the bed, we continued our bamboo ceiling on the bottom and we added some dimmable puck lights. So a very popular option that customers add to their camper vans these days is this RoadVac. It's a flush mounted vacuum cleaner. We put it in one customer's van and made it to this channel. And since then, everyone wants one in their van. And I think it really changes the game. All right, so as I walk, if I slide back here, we have slider windows. If I move back here, we have slider windows. You know, our bamboo trims. I'm gonna, let me show you our water system here. Okay, so this is a 35 gallon. Ooh. So this is a 35 gallon water tank right here. We add a porthole so it makes it nice and easy. After a while, it probably makes sense for you to try to clean out the inside of your tank. You don't want, some customers, they don't use their water too often. So it just sits there stagnant. So, and then as I move down, you'll see we have our AquaHot 125D unit in the back here. We add our signature blow off port. So this port right here allows you to blow all the water out of your system. So our customers don't have, they can winterize in between uses. They don't have to sit there and winterize for the entire season. We have our heater kick right here. So we have two heater kicks inside of this van, which makes it really nice. So if you're in the lounge, you can have the heat at a separate temperature back here and hotter in the front if you want. Our standard lagoon table, you've seen them. And then on this side is our power system. So I'm gonna just, let me just take this off real quick. Okay, great. So then our power system in the inside here, you see how everything is, you know, the detail and this being inset and nice and flush. It's all about detail for us. So this is our power system. There's a 600 amp hours of lithium battery power. There's our full Victron system. And then one thing that we just started implementing is adding this fan that blows the air directly down underneath the van and a specialty port so that you can't get any water inside coming upwards. That really helps cool down the system when it gets hot. And then in the front, we took the extra space that was left over and we added it just so the customer has another bin storage. All right, so this lagoon table becomes a bed. Put it right here. All right, and then that is one big, big bed. And remember, like you've heard me say in some of the previous videos, I'm six foot four, but today I'm five foot eight and it's, it is still feels very big. Okay, so now let me show you the amazing part about this van is this dropdown. So what we did, we brought the dropdown really, really low. So it makes it easier for a customer to get on the bed. So in the inside here, you'll see our big skylight. We added our gooseneck lights with dimmers built into them and then USB ports on the bottom of our lights. So, and this lives up to the ceiling and it's great because you have your windows on the sides here, so you have that. And then you also have your nice skylight that has an integrated screen, an integrated blackout shade, and even has really bright, very bright light just in case you need to do surgery. All right, and then as I, whew. Okay, so one of the things we added as well is if the customer plans on having any extra visitors, we added an accessory ladder here. So this ladder gives the customer an opportunity if she plans on having some guests, if she has grandkids, friends coming and staying, they can sleep under here in that nice king-size bed and she can sleep above. It's like a bunk bed setup. And this ladder makes that possible. And this ladder stores in the front of the shower section, so it's easy to store away. So she could choose, if she's just by herself, she might want this bed to go all the way down and it makes it easier to get in and out of bed. Or if she's with people, she can have a bunk bed setup. This is really cool. This is what I call a foodie van, right? So it's got plenty of counter space, plenty of kitchen storage, nice size fridge and freezer. You got the bathroom with the toilet and you have options to seat four people or more and sleep up to four people. It's pretty cool. Nice build here. And I think it has every single option I can see on the outside. What is it missing? I don't know what it's missing. Maybe like a Peloton bike in the inside might be about the only thing. But yeah, this van is totally, it's almost fully modified. This is a great option for a customer who wants to take their home on the road. They wanna test everything out and they have the ability. It won't slow them down. And they feel this has a lot of comforts of home inside of it. Well, I think you nailed it. I'll put those links in the description so our viewers could click over so they could check out pricing and check out your website and even some other builds that you've done. This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel. Thanks for joining us. Thanks for coming.