Just got back from a 2.5 week trip with my ex-El Monte MH (it's a Class A, not a C, but... :-)
We covered over 3,000 miles from San Diego to the Black Hills, Little Big Horn Battlefield, Yellowstone, places in Utah, and Vegas on the way back, towing my 2009 Odyssey behind. Apart from some drawer catches failing, and a tire valve stem problem (my new TPMS really saved my bacon!), everything went very well. Even with something as heavy as an Odyssey on the back, it did well on our big western grades. I only fell below 50 MPH a few times on hills, and that was only in the worst parts. Even then, I never got below 45. It would have been a rocket without the toad, but I was sure glad to have a toad. It made sightseeing life so much easier :-)
I plan to put a 5 Star tune on it, can't wait to see how it tackles grades after that. Everything is currently stock except for a Banks Ram Air system I put on just before the trip. That seems to help the engine breathe better; it's much more free-flowing than the stock unit, and it sounded different right after I put it on. A Banks cat-back exhaust is likely in its future, too.
I'd never been on more than a day trip with it before. Was happy then, still happy with it. The only problem I tended to encounter was the generator shutting down due to heat (most likely, since it happened most from Vegas to San Diego, and air temps were over 100). Even though they'd be heavy, I'd be thrilled if motorhomes had water-cooled generators. We run the genny pretty much all the time to run the roof air for passengers in the back.
