Advice please on new diesel pusher
Hi. New member here, about to purchase my first motor home. Lived aboard a large boat for many years, understand the experience, just want to do it on land now due to age and physical restrictions. ...
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Interesting time today seeing the RV with my wife. She liked the color, the interior, everything about it, particularly that it was so immaculate inside. We did have some hiccups, which really embarrassed the poor guy showing me the coach. First the living room slide would not open, turned out to be a defective limit switch and it finally opened. Ok. Then the power gen drawer would not retract. Likely another bad switch, but not an impressive showing.
My big unpleasant surprise was to find that the gen had four thousand hours on a really nice Onan QD series 10kw. Now I know these things will run double that, but that is still a lot of wear and tear on a gen. I’m estimating two to three thousand for a top end job, new water pumps, belts, stop solenoid, etc. vs, ten thousand new. PO took it to car races and just ran the gen 24/7.
Interesting that the coach had a big propane tank for the stove and what? Maybe the fridge?
Stove looked like it had never been cooked on btw.
Diesel powered hydronics system that looks like a nice to have in cold weather.
Nada range is 144-173, which btw is higher than what I’m seeing in the ads.
I’m thinking of offering 130K including their providing ten new radials, as a start.
Any higher than that and I think I would want to buy newer/less miles/hours.
Outside of coach pretty good, always garaged, some fiberglass blisters on front end cap where the bug shield held in water, a scrape along the very bottom of the left side, but minor, and a little paint bubbling in one other spot. All pretty little for eight years.
My wife got in the passenger seat, got it all adjusted the way she liked it with the foot rests out, and almost went to sleep on me. Seats ok? check.
this is a very nice motorhome, no question. I don't understand how a guy who is so cosmetically and mechanically careful can bring a coach into the dealer to sell with the service engine soon light on, all the tires needing replacing, etc.
And get this, the sales guy said he had sold dozens of the Spartan chassis and never had an incident of the IFS failing. Never heard of the boot issue.
huh?
Next is a test drive but if we can't meet on the price, no sense wasting their fuel on a drive.
My big unpleasant surprise was to find that the gen had four thousand hours on a really nice Onan QD series 10kw. Now I know these things will run double that, but that is still a lot of wear and tear on a gen. I’m estimating two to three thousand for a top end job, new water pumps, belts, stop solenoid, etc. vs, ten thousand new. PO took it to car races and just ran the gen 24/7.
Interesting that the coach had a big propane tank for the stove and what? Maybe the fridge?
Stove looked like it had never been cooked on btw.
Diesel powered hydronics system that looks like a nice to have in cold weather.
Nada range is 144-173, which btw is higher than what I’m seeing in the ads.
I’m thinking of offering 130K including their providing ten new radials, as a start.
Any higher than that and I think I would want to buy newer/less miles/hours.
Outside of coach pretty good, always garaged, some fiberglass blisters on front end cap where the bug shield held in water, a scrape along the very bottom of the left side, but minor, and a little paint bubbling in one other spot. All pretty little for eight years.
My wife got in the passenger seat, got it all adjusted the way she liked it with the foot rests out, and almost went to sleep on me. Seats ok? check.
this is a very nice motorhome, no question. I don't understand how a guy who is so cosmetically and mechanically careful can bring a coach into the dealer to sell with the service engine soon light on, all the tires needing replacing, etc.
And get this, the sales guy said he had sold dozens of the Spartan chassis and never had an incident of the IFS failing. Never heard of the boot issue.
huh?
Next is a test drive but if we can't meet on the price, no sense wasting their fuel on a drive.
