Fun / Projects / with my 1997 America Dream
Borrowed a trailer and getting ready for some fun in the sun (it's cold here now 30's again tonight) I went and bought a 8 inch drop hitch, the 6 inch had the deck at too much of an angle, and ...
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mike brez wrote:
As I'm looking for a rv in the same era I gotta ask and if you don't want to say I understand...but what was the purchase price and how much have you spent at this point and how much more to complete. I'm getting a little nervous seeing all that is going on.
Well that is kind of a long story that I will try and make short.
Purchase price was 42,000. It was falsely advertised and I would not have paid that much if it had been local. I had a 1,000 dollars of travel and boarding to get there and it would have been a 1000 back had I not purchased it. A fair price might have been 35000.
The first shop I went to ripped me off and fixed things that were not asked for and charged outrages amount of hours to fix things 10,000. NY state agreed with me and made them refund half, and stated that I should take them to small claims to get more back, first repair bill should have been 3500
The repair bill at Caledonia RV has been 11,000 (more updates to come on repairs made, and take note that a lot of these repairs were superficial and did not have to be done)but for what was done and the quality of work it was a very good price.
so cost should have been 49,500. More than market value, but it is now in my mind of a much higher value that what you can purchase for that price in a newer vehicle.
Lessons learned, be willing to say forget it and walk away, get repairs in writing even if you know the people in the shop.
