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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we had our boat way up the Delaware River for awhile, almost as far up as you can navigate. Fresh water, though I sure wouldn't drink it.
Boat zincs never wore out, unlike in Aventura Florida (North Miami) in that nice salt water, where the zincs disappeared like a bar of cheap soap...
It was my experience that it was hard to get someone out to work on the boat, other than the a/c guy, for less than a grand. The bill was always huge. And those environmental cleanup charges that are tacked on, for the one paper towel they used and I paid for the roll. Many times over. Marina repair yards can be budget wreckers.
What owning a larger boat taught me quickly was how maintenance free our cars and trucks have become. Granted stuff breaks, but you aren't constantly replacing Racor this and Racor that. You put gas in your car, check the oil, maybe, and just drive. And they run amazingly reliably. Not like boats. So I'm hoping also that if I do pay full freight for a new motorhome, albeit a smaller one, then with normal slide maintenance, checking the batteries, whatever, your motorhome should be pretty reliable. Like any truck it needs fluids changed. And the plumbing will leak. At some point, some place.
But I'm hoping with a new unit that might take a while. Definitely need a shakedown first drive before taking any long trips.
So tomorrow should be fun, off to drive the Itasca Sunstars and anything else interesting there.
Boat zincs never wore out, unlike in Aventura Florida (North Miami) in that nice salt water, where the zincs disappeared like a bar of cheap soap...
It was my experience that it was hard to get someone out to work on the boat, other than the a/c guy, for less than a grand. The bill was always huge. And those environmental cleanup charges that are tacked on, for the one paper towel they used and I paid for the roll. Many times over. Marina repair yards can be budget wreckers.
What owning a larger boat taught me quickly was how maintenance free our cars and trucks have become. Granted stuff breaks, but you aren't constantly replacing Racor this and Racor that. You put gas in your car, check the oil, maybe, and just drive. And they run amazingly reliably. Not like boats. So I'm hoping also that if I do pay full freight for a new motorhome, albeit a smaller one, then with normal slide maintenance, checking the batteries, whatever, your motorhome should be pretty reliable. Like any truck it needs fluids changed. And the plumbing will leak. At some point, some place.
But I'm hoping with a new unit that might take a while. Definitely need a shakedown first drive before taking any long trips.
So tomorrow should be fun, off to drive the Itasca Sunstars and anything else interesting there.
