Choosing Gasoline or Diesel Powered?
I realize that this is a long thread but if you are pondering the Gasoline versus a Diesel based on power consideration or are wondering about adding an after market performance enhancing kit to a Gas...
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B Bob wrote:
It is absolutely positively not trye that the house of a motor home quickly depreciates. Or that things will be shot at 10 years. My previous motor home was 34 years old when I sold it. Many of the things in the house were original and worked fine.
Motor homes tend to fit into categories of use for fulltiming, snowbirding, vacationing-weekender. Fulltime coaches like Fortetravel, Country Coach, Bluebird, Prevost, some Monaco coaches have very durable houses that will last for decades. Even coaches that were not that heavily build will last a long time if taken care of. The big deal is to keep up with things. Don't let the to-do list get too long. My old coach was a GMC and though I loved it, it was as fragile as they come.
Many many old Bounders and Winnebagos that were not expensive coaches to start with are still going strong. And higher end motor homes like old Bluebirds are in extremely good condition after decades of use.
Well made full timer coaches should easily go 25 years without problems. I have looked at 20 year old Country Coaches that were near perfect and everything worked. Same with Bluebirds and Prevost.
I am trying to decide between more normal consumer class A diesel or gas RV's and you point to 500k to 1 million dollar coaches that will last a lot longer than 10 years (25 years). OK, but I still do not see a lot of older consumer oriented RV's on the road or in the state park I regularly bicycle in (not that their are not exceptions).
