B+ motorhomes
I just bought a Trail Lite B+ 211s with 8.1 Chevy engine. This is my fifth motorhome (others range from an old 20' Vagabond, and three Winnegagos, from 19 to 32'. This vehicle is fantastic. I am...
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Wade:
Are you actually in the market? I am finding problems that seem to mirror Br's to some extent. What I am experiencing is primarily a combination of a few engineering errors, and some quality control problems. I feel like a test pilot in the "lead the force" program (an old Air Force program where they would identify a number of new aircraft and fly the crap out of them to see what problems they would have after accumulating a bunch of hours). The problems I am having are mostly annoying, because I don't want to be without my unit while they get fixed (I am spoiled). They are going to need to add some support for the microwave, and the drawers. "Why is it that there is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over"! The Trail Lite B+ series is in its second year, and the slide is new this year. Overall, I am pretty happy, and the more I drive it, the more confident I am with the overall power, handling, and versitility. I plan to drive about 20,000 miles the first year, and 15,000 or so the second and beyond. I am going to look at how well it is holding up at about 34,000 miles and decide if the quality is sufficient to last 100K+ miles. If not, I will sell before it is out of warranty; if yes, I start saving for the inevitable repairs (that I can't do). As I had said before, if I were going to primarily use it for personal use, and the extra couple of feet are not a driveability issue, I might be tempted to look more at the BT Cruiser. They are "prettier". I just don't know how they would feel in the kind of driving I do. I saw one at Camping World in New Braunfels, and was impressed with how nice it is for a few thousand more (about 3-5K), but there is not as close a comparison as the Chinook, due to the different layout. I am frankly not sure if the light weight was a big engineering priority, but I might have added a couple of hundred pounds of gelcoat, better hardware, and deeper carpet, and charged another $2000. I would have still bought it!
Are you actually in the market? I am finding problems that seem to mirror Br's to some extent. What I am experiencing is primarily a combination of a few engineering errors, and some quality control problems. I feel like a test pilot in the "lead the force" program (an old Air Force program where they would identify a number of new aircraft and fly the crap out of them to see what problems they would have after accumulating a bunch of hours). The problems I am having are mostly annoying, because I don't want to be without my unit while they get fixed (I am spoiled). They are going to need to add some support for the microwave, and the drawers. "Why is it that there is never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it over"! The Trail Lite B+ series is in its second year, and the slide is new this year. Overall, I am pretty happy, and the more I drive it, the more confident I am with the overall power, handling, and versitility. I plan to drive about 20,000 miles the first year, and 15,000 or so the second and beyond. I am going to look at how well it is holding up at about 34,000 miles and decide if the quality is sufficient to last 100K+ miles. If not, I will sell before it is out of warranty; if yes, I start saving for the inevitable repairs (that I can't do). As I had said before, if I were going to primarily use it for personal use, and the extra couple of feet are not a driveability issue, I might be tempted to look more at the BT Cruiser. They are "prettier". I just don't know how they would feel in the kind of driving I do. I saw one at Camping World in New Braunfels, and was impressed with how nice it is for a few thousand more (about 3-5K), but there is not as close a comparison as the Chinook, due to the different layout. I am frankly not sure if the light weight was a big engineering priority, but I might have added a couple of hundred pounds of gelcoat, better hardware, and deeper carpet, and charged another $2000. I would have still bought it!
