American Eagle, Country Coach, Newmar
Hi all, I was hoping to get some advice. We currently have a 1998 Winnebago Adventurer 32ft with no slides and are a family of 3 living in it. We've just recently completed a 2 month adventure acros...
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I'm not afraid to get an air brake certification if necessary, as long as it doesn't cost a fortune. Right now I am living in PA but I am moving to Florida.
I must make the jump to top end. The question is which model in the top end. I've also ruled out Tiffin and Monaco. I've mostly ruled out Country Coach as well. I know wanderlodge is the better choice but I can't handle the interior stylings. Age and miles don't bother me, but I want the highest quality I can afford. To give you an idea, I have a 1996 BMW M3 with 240,000 miles. I'm not scared of fixing things but I don't want to encounter too many big problems I can't handle myself (because you have to pull the engine or trans, etc). More importantly when I go to do the work, I'd like to be doing it on a well maintained unit that isn't a rust bucket and has some thought built into the design.
Right now it is a tossup between a U270 36' and a U320 42', both not perfectly maintained and both not having good paper records but both clearly having conscientious owners with big wallets. I have to figure out if I want to pay $40K more for what the U320 offers - additional length, full body paint, porcelain tile floor, 40" samsung tv, walnut cabinets (highly desirable to me), desk, intellitec switches, halogen accent lighting, pantograph doors, aquahot, better bathroom configuration (toilet room), (much) bigger engine/trans, prosine inverter vs heart, in motion satellite vs none, bose system vs none, 3 a/c instead of 2, heat pumps instead of heat strips,
The U270 is what I "need" and it solves all of my current issues wtih my coach. It's bigger, more powerful, better towing, air ride, air levelling, higher quality and promotes the sense that it's worth spending money on, better equipment, etc. The U320 is my dream. I could not ever find anything I like more than that thing. It's perfect in every way except a lack of detailed maintenance records - still I'm not scared it has no bulkhead separation, foretravel just saw it, and I can get oil analysis done, and I am already budgeting for a trans failure that may or may not happen.
I must make the jump to top end. The question is which model in the top end. I've also ruled out Tiffin and Monaco. I've mostly ruled out Country Coach as well. I know wanderlodge is the better choice but I can't handle the interior stylings. Age and miles don't bother me, but I want the highest quality I can afford. To give you an idea, I have a 1996 BMW M3 with 240,000 miles. I'm not scared of fixing things but I don't want to encounter too many big problems I can't handle myself (because you have to pull the engine or trans, etc). More importantly when I go to do the work, I'd like to be doing it on a well maintained unit that isn't a rust bucket and has some thought built into the design.
Right now it is a tossup between a U270 36' and a U320 42', both not perfectly maintained and both not having good paper records but both clearly having conscientious owners with big wallets. I have to figure out if I want to pay $40K more for what the U320 offers - additional length, full body paint, porcelain tile floor, 40" samsung tv, walnut cabinets (highly desirable to me), desk, intellitec switches, halogen accent lighting, pantograph doors, aquahot, better bathroom configuration (toilet room), (much) bigger engine/trans, prosine inverter vs heart, in motion satellite vs none, bose system vs none, 3 a/c instead of 2, heat pumps instead of heat strips,
The U270 is what I "need" and it solves all of my current issues wtih my coach. It's bigger, more powerful, better towing, air ride, air levelling, higher quality and promotes the sense that it's worth spending money on, better equipment, etc. The U320 is my dream. I could not ever find anything I like more than that thing. It's perfect in every way except a lack of detailed maintenance records - still I'm not scared it has no bulkhead separation, foretravel just saw it, and I can get oil analysis done, and I am already budgeting for a trans failure that may or may not happen.
