Do Tires on a Class A Rot with age?
I have browsed through ads for used Class A motorhomes and noticed (just my observation) that motorhomes that are 7 or 8 years old, even the high end ones with hardly any miles on them, seem to be adv...
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JRS & B wrote:
I know, after I re-read it, that the phrasing on my post could have been better.
It was just that I have seen new very deluxe motorhomes that are way up there out of my reach at $400,000.
And there are the two year old versions at $350,000, still way out of budget.
Then I see a similar size unit that is several years old and the price is $75,000 to $100,000.
It just appears to me that at a certain age high end motorhomes continue take a disproportionate depreciation hit.
I thought having to buy all new tires might be a factor because they certainly cannot be cheap.
Well, you need to define "several years old" and what level of coach you're looking for. The years that you mentioned 2002 - 2005, are 9 to 10 years old, so yes they will have depreciated much more than a coach of 2 or 3 years old.
Currently we are looking at higher end motor homes that originally were in the $400K to $500K range that may be in the $200K to $250K range now and we are finding that they are typically 2006 to 2008 models. If we drop down to 2004 to 2007, the prices drop to around 150,000.
So in regards to tires, the typical tag axle coach that has 295/75-22.5 tires will cost about $5K to replace. $5K to $200K is a drop in the bucket...
Ron
