Feedback on XLR and Fuzion

tinner12002 wrote:
Congrats on your new toy hauler and hope you get those items taken care of. The Fuzion 417 is the model were looking at, don't care much for the silly stools they use on the island though. Did you get the zero gravity ramp door and the new steps that fold up into the doorway...look like great additions to me.

The XLR does come with the new zero gravity ramp door. Not sure how I feel about it yet. It is a neat concept, but I never had an issue with the original style of doors. Mine has an electric actuator that unlocks the door. I like K.I.S.S. There is a pull cord inside that you can use to release the door if the electric actuator goes out. I do like that so you dont even have to go outside to open the door. However, with my RZR in the garage, Im not sure how accessible it wil be. I dont like however, that the latches are at the top of the ramp door. The reason I dont like that is because it makes it more difficult to get the doors to latch all the way. I had to get on a 6' ladder to push the top of the door hard enough to get it to latch completely. Now that the seals have compressed some for a couple of days, I was able to latch it completly without using the ladder. Hopefully that stays the norm.

The XLR did not come with the new stairs that you speak of. Personally I am ok with that. The only upside to the new kind of stairs that I can think of, is that they did seem very sturdy. However, for me they would be more of a pain then useful. For example, when my camper is in storage, I dont have enough room between the camper and the wall of my barn to be able to pull those big stairs down. Therefore I wouldnt even be able to get inside the camper. With the standard type of fold up stais, this is never an issue. There are lots of times when I need to get into the camper quickly and dont need the stairs, so I dont unfold them. With the other kind, you always have to deal with them to get inside. They are very easy to use though, so not a huge deal.

We did like the Fuzion 417 quite a bit. The one we looked at had 3 15k A/Cs from the factory. Most other manufacturers give you 3 13.5k's whenever you order 3 A/Cs. The bar stools, I liked the concept, but felt that they would eventually destroy the island from use. My wife really liked them though.

The 2 floorplans are very similar. The XLR 375 Amp won out for us for a few reasons.

The floorplan is much more open,
We liked the colors better,
Will be easier to fit larger TVs,
We liked the couch's better,
Dual pane windows,
Everything in the camper has switches (read very bad things about the Jensen in command system that the Fuzion uses),
The awning covers the slide which I believe will help keep the sun from heating it up as much,