I thought I would share some good info here for upcoming potential buyers. We had recently purchased a 29A from Cruise america. We chose not to get the extended warranty. They do come with a 30 day bumper to bumper and then a basic warranty for 12,000 miles.
We had already put 2 trips under our belt within those 30 days and found some small things and one big thing. the small things were like window seals, locks, headliner etc. but the one big thing is the tranny had shuttered a little built while going up a steep grade just south of Flagstaff.
To make a long story short the issue happened within the 30 days but its getting serviced now well outside the 30 days. When I had dropped it off for the tranny work I also mentioned the fridge "appeared" to be leaking they offered to check that out and he said worst case they will replace the fridge. That was 2 weeks outside the 30 days.
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the V10 is a decent machine but its so detuned its a gutless wonder. After a mountain of research I settled on the 5 star tuner. This is a specific PCM tune for the Class C Ford V10. I got the "87 Octane" tune. HUGE difference. No it did not turn it into a racing machine but instead mainly played with Shift points in the transmission. Hills I was down to 35 on I was cruising at 50. The stock tune winds the motor way up before shifting where as the new tune just shifts more but also stays in gear when needs to. It does also play with other things like Air/fuel ratio and timing a bit.
We never lost mpg but we gained power for sure. We were hauling gear for 5 days with about 4 wheelbarrows worth of firewood and a trailer on the back hauling 3 motorcycles and we got 8.1 mpg going from far east valley Phoenix to Mexican Hat Utah.
I have always been skeptical about tuners but the fact this tune is built specifically for this RV helped me make my decision and I don't regret the purchase at all.
