Forest River Forester vs Thor Four Winds
Considering the Forest River Forester 2251SLE, and the Thor Four Winds 24F. Any insights to either or both would be appreciated. Please, no brand bashing unless you can give concrete examples. Than...
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Recently bought a thor 23u. Had been circling around liking the 2501 sunseejer and the smaller 1 slide sunseeker (fr product) seen a few at the lot with broken slides. One they tried to sell me sales staff said we will repair it if you buy it. I could see daylight thru the slide, improperly aligned when closed. I asked if they drove from Indiana like that? Yes. Pass.
There's a couple rv repair facilities in SOCAL known for competency in major repairs many of these manufacturers send their stuff for rework. One of them had been my main go to for my funmover(thor product we bought in 2005 and put 92k on) Thor, as I already knew, the house, box is strong, inside stuff paper machete. Lots of nice flashy stuff in the various FR products but lots of leaks. Avoid slides. He had a nice business fixing slides including some poorly cut holes.
Because I use my motorhome sever, dirt roads, extended stays no hook ups, I wanted no issues with slides weakening the box or failure to retract keeping me from leaving. No leak issues again either, please. (Dirt bike rider, carried in hitch rack) after 10k miles, many bad roads, the thor is holding up. That's not to say it hasn't been problem free and there have been some stupid things I've discovered..and fixed.
To succeed in rving ur gonna have to be somewhat handy no matter what the brand!
There's a couple rv repair facilities in SOCAL known for competency in major repairs many of these manufacturers send their stuff for rework. One of them had been my main go to for my funmover(thor product we bought in 2005 and put 92k on) Thor, as I already knew, the house, box is strong, inside stuff paper machete. Lots of nice flashy stuff in the various FR products but lots of leaks. Avoid slides. He had a nice business fixing slides including some poorly cut holes.
Because I use my motorhome sever, dirt roads, extended stays no hook ups, I wanted no issues with slides weakening the box or failure to retract keeping me from leaving. No leak issues again either, please. (Dirt bike rider, carried in hitch rack) after 10k miles, many bad roads, the thor is holding up. That's not to say it hasn't been problem free and there have been some stupid things I've discovered..and fixed.
To succeed in rving ur gonna have to be somewhat handy no matter what the brand!
