Given your knowledge, would you do it again?
We currently have a 2013 Wildcat 353ls that we purchased new. We currently have all of the bugs worked out of it. And I can't say enough positive things about the Wildcat division of Forest River. T...
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We traded this year after having a Coachman 5th wheel for a number of years, it was 12 years old and still in good shape, newer roof only 4 years old, new tires only 2 years old. I had done all the mod's upgrade the power protection with a top of the line surge protector, but it was getting old, an it looked new inside and out.
Saying all the above it was as I said 12 years old and started to look a little worse for the ware in places. We also felt that before we started to put allot of money into it at 12 years old it was time to change.
Thus we bought a new Kz 5th wheel(KZ G384RLT), this will be the last one we ever buy do to our age and we tend to hold onto things an keep them up thoughtout the years ...
Why we bought this 5th wheel is that we had attended a RV show on the 3rd day, we walked thought a number of 5th wheels, high and low end. We saw light already out, trim that looked like it had been fixed so it was not falling down, doors that didn't fit, floor plans that were made for people that were allot slimmer that both of us...
We then came across our now 5th wheel, yes we bought the floor model at the show, it was not fancy but functional, it was solid built without being to heavy, and nothing was falling off it, no light already burnt out and the price was great for what we were seeing.
BTW Our trailer is featured in the May trailer life magazine an on the front cover, they say MSRP is in the high 70'es. Our trailer per a web site with all the add on's was listed at over 80K, we bought it for 60K with 10K trade so out the door at 54k with tax, title, license and I would match it against any high end 5th wheel costing over 100K ...
Will there be problems, yes, figure any trailer has problems, your pulling something over roads at 60, 70mph, bumping up and down you will have problems with any trailer.
Saying all the above it was as I said 12 years old and started to look a little worse for the ware in places. We also felt that before we started to put allot of money into it at 12 years old it was time to change.
Thus we bought a new Kz 5th wheel(KZ G384RLT), this will be the last one we ever buy do to our age and we tend to hold onto things an keep them up thoughtout the years ...
Why we bought this 5th wheel is that we had attended a RV show on the 3rd day, we walked thought a number of 5th wheels, high and low end. We saw light already out, trim that looked like it had been fixed so it was not falling down, doors that didn't fit, floor plans that were made for people that were allot slimmer that both of us...
We then came across our now 5th wheel, yes we bought the floor model at the show, it was not fancy but functional, it was solid built without being to heavy, and nothing was falling off it, no light already burnt out and the price was great for what we were seeing.
BTW Our trailer is featured in the May trailer life magazine an on the front cover, they say MSRP is in the high 70'es. Our trailer per a web site with all the add on's was listed at over 80K, we bought it for 60K with 10K trade so out the door at 54k with tax, title, license and I would match it against any high end 5th wheel costing over 100K ...
Will there be problems, yes, figure any trailer has problems, your pulling something over roads at 60, 70mph, bumping up and down you will have problems with any trailer.
