Calling all Newell owners!
We have been looking at building a new coach. I have read just about everything there is and checked many websites, etc. (reading since June). The Prevost conversions are beautiful coaches. The t...
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Bill.Satellite wrote:
I still live full time in my 1988 Prevost. We average about 15,000 miles per year and travel on business so getting there is very important. We have about 350,000 miles on the odometer. If the OP buys a new Newell today he will have an excellent usable, salable motorhome 20 years from today.
Seriously, you ask if one has burned to the ground? What the heck does that have to do with the life span of an RV? That's a separate subject. Do you have the right insurance?
You highlight only one comment - fire
Correct me if I am wrong but a burning to the ground will significantly shorten the life of any MH. This is just one extreme example, but there are many other types of failures that can occur that can be significant or just major or minor nuisances.
Full cost replacement for fire can not typically be gotten for many years
You seem to skip over bad contacts, leaking pipes, various types of cracking of various components I had not mentioned.
There are no guarantees even with these great elite MHs. I am not trying to say bad things about any of them as I think they are top notch, but realistically everything declines slowly or quickly and there are lots of stuff in these things to decline with age or use.
As for the diversion to attacking tiffin, which likely deserves the attack do to various issues, what does that have to do with evaluating these fine MHs.
I wish I could afford a Newell or Provost conversion as they are both great MHs, but if you think they use materials that do not age, crack, fail, etc like every other man made material you are fooling your self imo.
