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MarineandAirfor's avatar
Nov 19, 2014

Am I out of my depth?

Hello All
I'm new to this site and the RV world. I've gotten a wealth of info here.
I've been looking into an RV for about 2 yrs. I came close to a minnie winnie class c last year owned by a close family friend. It was well maintained and was gone thru Totally. It had high miles and no genset & I thought $6800 for a friend was too much.
It sold & I kept looking.

Ok here's the deal. Found 1 I could afford bigger than I wanted but had it all.
1990 34' Winnebago Superchief on Ford Chassis. Seller wanted $3000 talked him down to $2000
Said if you drive it to my house and it makes it you got a deal.
The GOOD....
This was $72k new (have the sticker & all paperwork in binder)
Has 2 - Colman Mach 3 15,000btu A/C's working!
Basically all the options you could imagine minus any leveling kits. Tow pkg w/brake control, central Vac, remote spotlight. Air horns, full bath (not passthru) eve has a functioning washer & dryer in there. Also has onan emerald 3 genset with less than 700hrs. Runs 6500 watt. With 2 remote start locations. The Ford 460 had 65k and has the expected manifold leak but runs pretty good. Fridge is in crappy shape but is working. Not sure about furnace or HW heater as of yet

The bad. God it's ugly as could be. I'll make the inside look lovely but there is a great deal of delam! Not so much from roof but more from the seam along the entire side of coach. Think water wicked up the luan. Structurally it solid all around. The bumper corners are broken & or missing. Tires are crap. The kwikee stairs look as if they were torched/cut out? The fridge went was NOT there so some good water rot behind fridge. The big awning was coming away from coach so I removed. I can go on and on but what I wanted to know if I made a good call or did I get over my head here?! I can fix ANYTHING and the beast is looking better everyday
Anyone that could give my opinions, thoughts? I'll take it well
I just figured with that Genny and the tons of options figured it was a good deal
Thanks for reading all this LOL
Ryan

84 Replies

  • Advice? Little late, eh? Just a guess, but I'm thinking that you made the seller a very, very, happy guy. Delamination and rot are both referred to as "like icebergs" since only ten percent is clearly visible. Sounds like you willingly bought a rolling disaster. As for my second guess, I'm betting that you start digging a bit deeper into this mess, realize that you made a huge, but fairly low cost, rookie error, and start looking for ways to recover some of your "investment" before you coach arrives at it's final destination AKA, the scrap yard. Good luck.
  • Out of your depth........don't know. Are you REAL handy?

    As for the price.........why do you think seller dropped from 3000 to 2000 ?

    Delamination is a nightmare & costly IF it can be repaired.

    Roof vent missing for fridge.......wood rot......that is rip out and repair/rebuild

    Sometimes 'projects' are just NOT worth it.
  • It's to late but



    I'm sure you could part it out and get your 2k back