Need help narrowing down 5th wheel
Good evening all, My wife and I are going to be in the market to purchase our first camper and are super excited. I have a 2022 ram 3500 SRW that's getting built as we speak (hopefully) and we are ...
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2112 wrote:
Do yourself a favor, take the wife to PPL Motorhomes at 59 and West Belt and look at used campers. Not just the 5th wheels but TTs as well. Pay close attention to the build quality of the units 5 years old or older. Keep in mind a lesser priced, entry level unit will look/feel cheaper than a high end unit. Look at materials used and how well, or not, they are constructed and how well it held up, or didn't.
Great advice here, I forgot PPL was right in OP's neck of the woods. You might even find a unit that you'd be interested in owning.
We just bought a 2008 Heartland Big Country. It needs some updating, and we'll spend some time and money fixing it up, but it's well made.
Our Terry TT was also a 2008 model, and that was supposed to be the "new" Fleetwood, where they re-dedicated themselves to their legacy of quality from the 90's. Well, the recession got them right after we bought the unit and that rig turned out to be a giant POS over the 12 years we owned it.
We added every option they offered when we ordered that Terry new in 2008 and it stickered at just under $30k. This Big Country was just under $60k brand new. Heartland is still around, Fleetwood is not. I see that Big Country 5ers now start at $104k MSRP....I know nobody pays the MSRP but it's a way to compare apples-to-apples.
