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Of all the upgrades GFC made to the V2 Pro, and now available as an accessory for existing V1 and V2 campers, the headliner might make the biggest differences in the least obvious ways. Let’s explain why, but start with a warning: this will make you want one.
The thick, dark gray fabric will reduce the amount of light entering the camper through the translucent roof. Since this layer sits underneath the honeycomb composite roof, which reflects solar radiation and provides a one-inch air gap to reduce internal temperatures, it won’t make your interior any hotter.
This will make it a little easier to sleep in a little longer for those lazy mornings in camp. It also makes it more relaxing to spend a hot afternoon chilling out in the camper, reading a book or watching a movie. And it means if you put your kid down for a nap, they’ll be able to give you a few more minutes of precious peace and quiet.
Just like putting down a thick rug, hanging heavy curtains, or installing other soft stuff around a big open room in your house will help reduce echoes and reduce volumes, the thick non-woven matted headliner will do the same inside your camper.
It might sound like a subtle change, but together with lower levels of light (you can obviously still open all the windows), it just creates an environment that feels substantially calmer.
Polyster fibers are only capable of absorbing .4 percent of their weight in moisture. Which, given how light those threads are, is virtually nothing. Compare that to wool, for example, which can absorb up to 30 percent of its weight in water.
The chaotic nature of the non-woven fibers works to intercept any airborne moisture, and force it to condense into droplets. Surface tension then draws those droplets out, across the length of any fibers they touch. And that massively expands their surface area.
This process will work together with the convection created by the new vent design on the tent body, which will evaporate that moisture and exhaust it out of the always-open top vents.
So, in part thanks to the headliner, the camper’s interior will now be a much drier environment. It’s a different you’ll feel the first tie you camp with one.
The headliner attaches to your ceiling with adhesive-backed strips of hook-side hook-and-loop. You can then connect stuff to it with your own strips of hook-side.
Displaying patches is an obvious use. But pick up a set of sticky-backed hook-and-loop pads and you open up a bunch of possibilities. Want to watch movies on a tablet? Just stick it anywhere on your ceiling. Want to make sure you can find your headlamp in the middle of the night? Do the same thing. Storage pouch? Key fobs? First aid kits? Multitools? Pens? Cables? Documents? You name it, and it can probably be hook-and-looped to your headliner.
All that is currently available (through 9/18) for just $269.
