Harvey51 wrote:
The ad in the first post is not far from the 2004 we bought in 2008. Ours is an E350 only 20 feet long. It was a former rental with 80 000 km. We actually enjoy sleeping upstairs on the cabover, which would not suit everyone, but sure keeps the length and weight down. With 833 kg cargo capacity I never have to think about weight. The tires are lightly loaded, the engine doesn't have to work hard. The rear overhang has never touched down while we drive into all our favourite boondocking spots. It fits easily in the driveway. We have never towed a car because this MH parks like a van, no problem parallel parking on a street. Mall parking lines are a little too narrow and short but it's not a big deal. My 12 foot utility trailer with four kayaks loaded Is not felt. I figured 4.25 km/L = 10 mi/gal US; it goes nicely from Grande Prairie to Jasper on a full tank which is 400 km.
I would accept an extra 2 feet of overhang to get a real shower.
In its 9 years and 25000 km with us it has never been in a garage or RV shop. Unfortunately it took me 8 years to run eternabond over the joint from cabover to metal roof and around the vents so we did get a bit of water dripping during heavy rains several times. Tires of course and it has a date with a good mechanic for spark plugs in a year or two. It is a Canadian Adventurer, which is a low end RV but no problems with the appliances other than a leaky tap on the bathroom sink.
We had this fairly remote campground by the Peace River all to ourselves last week.
Thank you for sharing and that's a nice camper you have there. Great to hear it's treated you well.
We are looking for something very similar for all the reasons you stated. Perhaps a touch bigger so we can have the bed at the back. We have 11 acres north of Toronto with zero services so a big part of this rental is to determine how well it would serve there and for some travelling with the SxS.
