Toy Hauler Depreciation

rayford118 wrote:
i think it will just depend on the dealer. It took me two months before I found a dealer that wanted to give me a good price on a new cyclone AND and god price on trade in. Bought my Eagle last year for 27,000 (list was 40,000) and after a year of good use this dealer is going to give me 25,000 (7.4% depreciation) on trade. So thats not too bad from my view. Had one dealer only offer 16,000 but was good on the new purchase and the other dealer was also was willing to give 25,000 but was $16,000 higher on the Cyclone. Glad I found one willing to get right on both!

this was us. we had a 2013 Wildcat 5'ver. We settled at ONLY $3,000 under payoff. I was lucky. I also had other dealers give me a horrible low price for trade. No way. :) but it was to be expected. THEN I got a very good deal on the new toyhauler. In the end I lost a bit of course but it came out as a easier deal than I was expecting.

It is all about finding a dealer willing to give that good deal.

rayford118 wrote:
not always but there sure as heck aint a $97k 25 foot camper out there. At least that wouldnt be the norm.

Airstream comes pretty close!:h

not always but there sure as heck aint a $97k 25 foot camper out there. At least that wouldnt be the norm.

rayford118 wrote:
how big of a camper do you have now? at msrp of $97k i figured that would be around a 43 footer. Didnt think they went much bigger than that.

Voltage 3200 is 35' 10".

Based on my review of various toy haulers, msrp is not always indicative of length.

how big of a camper do you have now? at msrp of $97k i figured that would be around a 43 footer. Didnt think they went much bigger than that.

Guessing south of $40K. Enjoy shopping.......

Not bad in general. The wife wants a regular 5th wheel but the local dealers what to give me $8,000. I'm not greedy but a have a nice unit and need a little more that that.

Ok, so I got more information now that I'm home from work.

I paid 59k (listed for 97k with options) for the trailer last year. One location of the same company that is actually closer to my house offered me 37k at first then called back and upped it to 40k. The location I bought it from offered me 48k.

We bought the one we have with the intention of seeing how we would like camping since we had never owned a camper of any sort. Well, we love it but the wife constantly hints at wanting a larger trailer (more so since going to the show yesterday). We will see what happens. The trailer we have is great and the truck I have will pull it. Anything larger and I would also need to trade in a one year old truck.

NADAGuides.com has your unit listed, spec it out and see. I didn't know about your specific unit and prices came back from $72k to $57k.

Generally most say 25-30% depreciation off the lot then 10% per year after.

Key is to know what you paid, what you owe (assuming you have a loan) and then compare the dealers numbers. I traded our 2005 Raptor a year later after buying it and did pretty good. The Toy Hauler lines were really taking off about then and dealer couldn't keep them in stock. They were able take mine in on trade and have it out the door 2 days later, thus no flooring costs so the deal I got was pretty good.

i think it will just depend on the dealer. It took me two months before I found a dealer that wanted to give me a good price on a new cyclone AND and god price on trade in. Bought my Eagle last year for 27,000 (list was 40,000) and after a year of good use this dealer is going to give me 25,000 (7.4% depreciation) on trade. So thats not too bad from my view. Had one dealer only offer 16,000 but was good on the new purchase and the other dealer was also was willing to give 25,000 but was $16,000 higher on the Cyclone. Glad I found one willing to get right on both!