Best Fiver these days
I hope I am not opening to big of a can of worms here. It has been years since we were looking at RV's. The wife thinks we need to research a new fiver. I know years ago a lot of people said stay away...
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cummins2014 wrote:Veebyes wrote:
New is OK I suppose but I would not discount finding a lightly used, well maintained respected older builder, even if that builder no longer exists.
Chances are that the frame is as good today as the day it came off the line. Everything else is third party components.
An older diamond in the rough can be had cheap. From there a major refit can be done ending in something cheaper than new, without the new issues.
The trick is to find something that you will be happy with for the long haul.
Had no desire to go out ,and spend 10's of thousands on another new fifth wheel, just purchased a new used one, went up 7 years newer ,and only 4K difference. Larger fridge ,level up, disc brakes, side bathroom, etc etc. The deals are out there.
The people that bought my old one got a good one, and a lot cheaper then a new one, and was well taken care of.
Thought I saw a video last week from the guy in TX (Big Rig RV????) where he shot a video of a "X" year old Redwood that retailed for over $100K and now at like under $40K. Want to say the coach was really not that old and in really, really good condition. Sure it may have needed a lil TLC, but overall very nice unit for the price IMO.
