How long to keep RV when Full-timing?
We have been camping for 15 years, and full-timing for 4 years. We have a nice 5th wheel, but the new 5th wheels look inviting. How long do you keep an RV, or motor home, before getting a newer one?...
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Let's see . . My folks bought theirs when I was at the end of high school. Twenty-seven years later they sold it when my son was in college in 2003. Full timed in it for better than ten years of that. And 3-4 week annual trips plus weekend trips in those other years.
An Airstream is the only brand left of that quality of RV. And, ironically, it was the lowest quality of those.
With two TVs that covered just under 400k miles, they did pretty well. Grandparents did the same thing, but with a Streamline. All of USA , Canada and Mexico to south of the Federal District in the 1960s into the seventies.
If you're going to travel, then pay for quality. Not a rig that is basically worn out before 100k miles. I decided that those brands weren't to be beat so fixing up an older one is a better plan financially than buying new or used junk. Junk being that which can't reasonably be rebuilt.
Of course, if traveling south to watch TV in a warmer place is the majority of full timing and only in retirement, a short time, some old lumbering barely roadworthy 5er (they all are) traded often will do nicely.
Argue about floor plans.
An Airstream is the only brand left of that quality of RV. And, ironically, it was the lowest quality of those.
With two TVs that covered just under 400k miles, they did pretty well. Grandparents did the same thing, but with a Streamline. All of USA , Canada and Mexico to south of the Federal District in the 1960s into the seventies.
If you're going to travel, then pay for quality. Not a rig that is basically worn out before 100k miles. I decided that those brands weren't to be beat so fixing up an older one is a better plan financially than buying new or used junk. Junk being that which can't reasonably be rebuilt.
Of course, if traveling south to watch TV in a warmer place is the majority of full timing and only in retirement, a short time, some old lumbering barely roadworthy 5er (they all are) traded often will do nicely.
Argue about floor plans.
