Calling all Newell owners!

Bill.Satellite wrote:

DanTheRVMan wrote:

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.

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.

You seems to skip over any actual knowledge about the type of coach he is referring to or the type of coach I currently own (2014 minus 1988 equals 26 years) and it hasn't burned to the ground yet. The engine is rated at 1,000,000 miles and the chassis for 3,000,000. Do things go wrong from time to time? Sure they do but things also go wrong from time to time with a new coach. You said he should buy one and plan to buy another later "cause it might burn" and I find that to be completely off-topic. Coaches built for longevity are built from much better materials. As an example, there is not any fiberglass in my coach other than the end caps and there is nothing to delaminate should there be a leak. The skin is aluminum and stainless steel. My biggest concern is I need a new paint job! Even if my engine blew I could have it replaced for less than $20,000 and still be hundreds of thousands ahead of having to buy a new coach.
If the poster was asking about a Fleetwood you might have an arguement but these simply do not apply when you get into the type of coach this person is discussing. Newell Coach builts an excellent coach, they are dependable long lasting coaches. Take a look here at the 10 year old coaches that are still selling for more than $300,000!
Used Newell Coaches

I know they are built better

I also know people anywhere can make a mistake.

There are 57 chevy's running strong in Cuba where they have little choice but to keep repairing them. With a lot of heart ache anything can be kept on the road and there are many more that were junked else where. The fact someone says they have a 20 or 30 year old MH that is fine is not a statistically significant fact.

Having been involved in an analysis that resulted in a high end MH being totaled and having colleagues that did similar investigations I have to tell you there are no guarantees things will not fail even on high end MHs that are made much better.

Yes I realize they are built to last. Still no assurance they will or will not be a pain in the butt as time goes on. Pretty much anything can fail, which has been rather profitable for me.:B