Traveling fulltime: Your choice of rig?
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We've kind of unusual fulltimers. We have a small C, only 25'. It's built on a 4 wheel drive Ford truck chassis. We had it custom made because I (Karen) use a wheelchair and we wanted some special features but our last motorhome was very similar. It was made by the Scotty Serro company which has since gone out of business.
We had the Scotty, built on a Dodge 3500 truck chassis, for 13 years and over 300,000 miles of fulltiming. In the first 100,000 miles we has some major problems with the truck - lost a transmission and an engine - but after that it was pretty good for the next 200,000 miles. We only sold it because we knew that there would be a wait time for a new motorhome to be built and we didn't want to be caught without a home. As far as I know it's still on the road.
The motorhome box held up pretty good. We didn't keep up with the caulking at first and had some minor delamination. When we sold it we were still getting asked about how old is was because it looked almost new. We had to replace the Dometic fridge once and the water heater. We replaced the couch once and reupholstered the dinette seating. Everything else was just upkeep and minor repairs.
Our current motorhome is a 2009 and has about 70,000 miles on the odometer. We had a couple of problems - broken bolts on the manifold and a bad valve cam at about 65,000 miles. Our fridge also died at the same time. Everything else is still original.
We like to go slowly, drive the backroads,stop on a whim, stay almost anywhere, park in cities and camp in the boonies. We don't tow so being short makes it all easier. The 4x4 doesn't get used a lot but we don't have to fear getting stuck.
We had the Scotty, built on a Dodge 3500 truck chassis, for 13 years and over 300,000 miles of fulltiming. In the first 100,000 miles we has some major problems with the truck - lost a transmission and an engine - but after that it was pretty good for the next 200,000 miles. We only sold it because we knew that there would be a wait time for a new motorhome to be built and we didn't want to be caught without a home. As far as I know it's still on the road.
The motorhome box held up pretty good. We didn't keep up with the caulking at first and had some minor delamination. When we sold it we were still getting asked about how old is was because it looked almost new. We had to replace the Dometic fridge once and the water heater. We replaced the couch once and reupholstered the dinette seating. Everything else was just upkeep and minor repairs.
Our current motorhome is a 2009 and has about 70,000 miles on the odometer. We had a couple of problems - broken bolts on the manifold and a bad valve cam at about 65,000 miles. Our fridge also died at the same time. Everything else is still original.
We like to go slowly, drive the backroads,stop on a whim, stay almost anywhere, park in cities and camp in the boonies. We don't tow so being short makes it all easier. The 4x4 doesn't get used a lot but we don't have to fear getting stuck.
