Country Coach solid front axel

dons2346 wrote:

mike brez wrote:
........... 2002 was the first year for total body paint and clear coat. The clear coat will only stick to paint faithfully. 2000 and 2001 coaches suffered from the clear coat peeling on the radius where the roof curves to over lap the walls.

So I am guessing the 99 Allure I intend to look at will just have fiberglass gel coated walls?

Not totally true. The '02s that are of the tan or cream color are not painted. Only the graphics are painted on and then the entire coach is clear coated. It should be noted that any year is subject to clear coat peeling on the roof radius, not just the early ones.

There was a guy some years ago, about '03 or '04, that was taking CC to court for false advertizing about the "full body paint" issue. His coach was the tan gel coat with clear coat over it. Country Coach was saying that they consider clear coat to be paint. I have no idea what happened.

As far as fibers sticking out, that will not happen on a CC because CC did not use filon for wall construction. Filon is used on cheaper coaches and you can have fibers raise up and get mini cracks in it.

Sorry Don to disagree with you, but I was interested on a Country Coach they had on display at TT in Las Vegas. I believe it was a 2006 and while looking it over the fibers sticking out was so obvious I called it to the attention of the sale person. He told me CC could fix that at their place of business in Oregon. But the fibers were ugly and I just walked away from something like that. I also saw another Alure that was for sale at the FMCA rally this year at Indio, and it had the hairline cracks all over the side walls. I would not be posting this if I had not seen it myself.