I'm still here but did not buy anything yet. I tend to over research stuff, especially when I know nothing about it and a lot of money is involved.
The vehicles from Cruise America I'm looking at have a generator. I want to use solar though. I called them back and they told me the model I'm looking at has 4 feet x 5 feet space for panels.
I'd want to run a tv and charge my devices and run a laptop. I honestly don't even know if I could run a coffee maker of the solar.
I was at Safeway today and saw a Cruise America pull up. Totally unlike me I walked up and started chatting with the people. Nice people from Brazil on a two month rental along the Pacific Northwest. They love their RV vacation but mentioned that their Cruise America RV has a bunch of problems. I told them I want to buy one from Cruise America and the lady said she would not .. yikes!! She showed me the door did not close well, there was some foam coming off somewhere else, the thingies on the gas stove one places the pots on to cook were loose and she said mentioned some other issues.
Sounds like they are not well maintained .. or was she just unlucky. The sales guy at the local location has the regular high pressure sales spiel and scarcity for these units at their low prices. It actually turns me off since he actually can not answer most of my technical questions.
I went to El Monte RV and did not like what I saw there. No sales person except for weekends. Their website does not list mileage on the vehicles. I called and left a message and eventually spoke to the sales person. I asked about solar and he said 'it will cost you $10,000 to have solar' and I explained I only want it for tv, lights, laptop.
