Forward kitchen?
Husband and I looking to upgrade our gasser to a DP. Looking at resales and I see many of the forward kitchens models. Is this an indication they are not popular to keep? Anything I should be aware...
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Ours is a Monaco SKQ layout.
After a year of searching, back in 2010, we found this, and a couple similar Thor and Forest River layouts. We bought the Monaco used for what the others cost new. And do not regret it not one lil bit.
I loved out mid-door in our gasser. You walk out in the rain, you are under the middle of the main awning, nice and dry.
This doesn't exist in a mid priced DP. You get a front door, and this wienie little door awning that leaves a 6" gap between it and the main awning. I live with it, you will too.
I loved my front door in the old gasser. I could hop out to get fuel or whatever, the DW wouldn't even need to put down her iPhone.
This doesn't exist in any DP. After 5 years in our Monaco, DW is finally starting to hit the retract the step cover when I get off the highway. I also moved around the switches on the dash so I had a step cover switch I could reach.
Our gasser had a TV on a STEEK in the middle of the dash, I hated it. I had to hotwire it so my kids could watch movies on the road (that was a lil distracting...)
I've actually seen DP's that had 1 TV over the dash, and a second somewhere else in the cabin! (why in the hell would anyone need 2 TV's in the same room? no offense to anyone who has that
Our Monaco SKQ has one TV, a 42", on the back wall of the main salon.
The other front kitchen layouts mentioned either hid the TV behind the retracted slide, or had the TV on some sort of mechanism to let it stick out.
Our Monaco SKQ, the fixed TV is fully visible with all 4 slides in.
The only drawback I've found is, with the slides retracted, I can't get to the pantry where I keep my Tequila!
The DW might say this is not a bad thing.
Over the past 5 years, we've looked at a lot of other coaches and floorplans...
I'd really like a tag axle, and the extra capacity that comes with it.
I went over a cat scale a couple weeks ago, front was 12k, max 13k. rear was 20,840, max 20k...
2 weeks ago I put a motorcycle lift on, Figure I added a thousand to the all ready overwieght rear..
I'm not sure there is a perfect coach layout.
There certainly is not one that is perfect for everyone...
For me and us, our Monaco 40 SKQ is as perfect as it seems to get
After a year of searching, back in 2010, we found this, and a couple similar Thor and Forest River layouts. We bought the Monaco used for what the others cost new. And do not regret it not one lil bit.
I loved out mid-door in our gasser. You walk out in the rain, you are under the middle of the main awning, nice and dry.
This doesn't exist in a mid priced DP. You get a front door, and this wienie little door awning that leaves a 6" gap between it and the main awning. I live with it, you will too.
I loved my front door in the old gasser. I could hop out to get fuel or whatever, the DW wouldn't even need to put down her iPhone.
This doesn't exist in any DP. After 5 years in our Monaco, DW is finally starting to hit the retract the step cover when I get off the highway. I also moved around the switches on the dash so I had a step cover switch I could reach.
Our gasser had a TV on a STEEK in the middle of the dash, I hated it. I had to hotwire it so my kids could watch movies on the road (that was a lil distracting...)
I've actually seen DP's that had 1 TV over the dash, and a second somewhere else in the cabin! (why in the hell would anyone need 2 TV's in the same room? no offense to anyone who has that
Our Monaco SKQ has one TV, a 42", on the back wall of the main salon.
The other front kitchen layouts mentioned either hid the TV behind the retracted slide, or had the TV on some sort of mechanism to let it stick out.
Our Monaco SKQ, the fixed TV is fully visible with all 4 slides in.
The only drawback I've found is, with the slides retracted, I can't get to the pantry where I keep my Tequila!
The DW might say this is not a bad thing.
Over the past 5 years, we've looked at a lot of other coaches and floorplans...
I'd really like a tag axle, and the extra capacity that comes with it.
I went over a cat scale a couple weeks ago, front was 12k, max 13k. rear was 20,840, max 20k...
2 weeks ago I put a motorcycle lift on, Figure I added a thousand to the all ready overwieght rear..
I'm not sure there is a perfect coach layout.
There certainly is not one that is perfect for everyone...
For me and us, our Monaco 40 SKQ is as perfect as it seems to get
