2004 Forest River Georgetown - questions
Obviously I will do a VIN check (paid, unless someone can do one for me) as it looks like it was bought at an auction. Looks to be the model with 2 slides (main room and bedroom). Ford v10, 26,000 ...
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OK, so a few comments:
1) a 2004 is old enough to be in good shape or in bad shape, depending how was taken care of. Sounds like you are new to this, and a Forest River is not the top of the line. If it was not maintained properly it could be a money pit
2) A 2004 Ford Chassis with 26k miles should be fine, but the transmission would be a concern. If everything work as it should I would do a full service as soon as possible. Main reason is that the chassis is limited to 75MPH, if you keep flooring it the tranny will downshift but remain at the same speed, which is not good for the tranny. This is the reason why many Class A with this chassis have tranny problems
3) The roof, even if it was taken care of, it will need to be recoated. I would recommend https://www.sealallroofkit.com/see-customers-use-seal-all-roof-kit/ (I don't have any interest vested in them, but after recoating dozens of roofs with every material available, this is the best I have used)
4) Bought in an auction? How long have they been offering it for sale? Cars are sold in auctions as a standard practice, but RV until a few month ago would only go to auction if they could not sell them. With the market as strong as it was, everything was being sold in a matter of days. I WOULD RECCOMEND THAT YOU HAVE IT INSPECTED. If this was a 45' tag axle or a weird RV it could be OK from an auction; but this is a pretty standard model. Also, be aware that we already started seeing in Florida the flooded units from IAN, and a lot of people that did not have insurance coverage normally make them look OK and try to sell them with no disclosure. (My first RV almost 30 years ago was a undeclared flooded unit sold to me by General RV)
5) The v10 is unbeatable. In my rental fleet we only had V10s and we have run them up to 300K miles with no problems. By the way, the spark plug issue is on previous models, this one was already fixed when Ford added more threads to the plug that only had 3.
I have owned dozens of RVs on my fleet, and this model (Chassis and House) are not bad if they are in good shape.
1) a 2004 is old enough to be in good shape or in bad shape, depending how was taken care of. Sounds like you are new to this, and a Forest River is not the top of the line. If it was not maintained properly it could be a money pit
2) A 2004 Ford Chassis with 26k miles should be fine, but the transmission would be a concern. If everything work as it should I would do a full service as soon as possible. Main reason is that the chassis is limited to 75MPH, if you keep flooring it the tranny will downshift but remain at the same speed, which is not good for the tranny. This is the reason why many Class A with this chassis have tranny problems
3) The roof, even if it was taken care of, it will need to be recoated. I would recommend https://www.sealallroofkit.com/see-customers-use-seal-all-roof-kit/ (I don't have any interest vested in them, but after recoating dozens of roofs with every material available, this is the best I have used)
4) Bought in an auction? How long have they been offering it for sale? Cars are sold in auctions as a standard practice, but RV until a few month ago would only go to auction if they could not sell them. With the market as strong as it was, everything was being sold in a matter of days. I WOULD RECCOMEND THAT YOU HAVE IT INSPECTED. If this was a 45' tag axle or a weird RV it could be OK from an auction; but this is a pretty standard model. Also, be aware that we already started seeing in Florida the flooded units from IAN, and a lot of people that did not have insurance coverage normally make them look OK and try to sell them with no disclosure. (My first RV almost 30 years ago was a undeclared flooded unit sold to me by General RV)
5) The v10 is unbeatable. In my rental fleet we only had V10s and we have run them up to 300K miles with no problems. By the way, the spark plug issue is on previous models, this one was already fixed when Ford added more threads to the plug that only had 3.
I have owned dozens of RVs on my fleet, and this model (Chassis and House) are not bad if they are in good shape.
