Class c vs. class a

I loved our Fleetwood Tioga 24 footer. Could go anywhere easily. Rhyno lined the roof, so never leaked. Five of us and a golden retriever was a little tight, but the memories are priceless. I bet we go back to this when it's the two of us again.

Yep!

And what I like best about not having to ever sit in the sun in our Class C is not having to wear sun glasses when I'm driving. ;)

P.S. That means I don't have to put-on/take-off sunglasses when on RV trips, because outside the rig my eyeglasses turn into sunglasses by themselves. :C

As I have said before, with a Class C, no matter what direction you are driving or what time of day, You don't have to sit in the sun!

Tim

understood. thank you.

after 10 yrs of having an RV, i have learned so much, but i still feel i have newbie knowledge of many systems.

i have been doing a lot of reading and testing the electrical ac/dc systems and find so much conflicting opinion on, for example, parallax 7300 and battery care. i think i will try and create a thread to flesh out some of these issues.

burlmart wrote:
thank you for this, phil...this is really going to change many things about how we start a new/different assessment of what our mini-motorhome is capable of.

good stuff.

Burl,

I notice from your profile signature that your Class C chassis is a Chevy?

If it is, my comments about idling our Ford's V10 probably so far not damaging it - MAY NOT APPLY to idling of your Chevy V8 .... so be aware ... just saying.

For what it's worth, I use Extended Service synthetic oil in our V10 just to as much as possible help with engine wear at all RPMs.

I use the dash air on my 'C'. All the time now. Its a E450 w/ a GCVWR of 22000 pounds. I'm lucky if I ride at 13500. It can handle it, that's why I bought it. I'll sell it w/ probably less than 10-15k miles on it. Who gives a hoot if it's got to work a little; its good for it.

burlmart wrote:

pnichols wrote:
FWIW, we also sometimes leave the dog in the motorhome with the generator powering the roof air when shopping, eating, or rockhouding out in desert heat.

do you ever use idling engine w/ dash AC?

We never use the dash AC we only use the roof air even when driving.

Not one repeat not one class A has ever been crashed tested. ALL vans which the class C's are built off of have been.

thank you for this, phil...this is really going to change many things about how we start a new/different assessment of what our mini-motorhome is capable of.

good stuff.

burlmart wrote:
do you ever use idling engine w/ dash AC?

Yes ... once in awhile.

We sometimes do it after shopping close to lunchtime in shopping centers on hot days. We'll relax in cool comfort with a lunch at the dinette, while keeping the outside noise down by using the dash air and idling the V10 engine. We used BOTH the dash air and roof air once in the Texas Panhandle in August after coming inside from extreme outside temperatures - to keep from getting heat stroke.

We like flexibility in the choices we have after spending the money for a self-contained RV ... so we look for all possible ways to use it's equipment and capabilites.

We've never come close to over-heating the big engine that we know of. We run the dash A/C on any setting needed up long grades in any outside temperatures - including going into and out of Death Valley on some of those long pulls. However we do not tow and we have only a small Class C on the optional E450 chassis, which may have improved cooling over the E350 chassis - but I'm not sure on this chassis difference. The higher gear ratio of the E450's differential does allow the V10 to spin a bit faster though, which may help with cooling on grades.