Gas or Diesel?? which is better
We are planning to upgrade our travel trailer to a Class A motorhome and plan to travel extensively around the United States. We have been told by folks with diesel pushers that we "must" purchase a ...
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Sorry, but I'm just not buying the alledged "fact" that ride and handling on a gasser is somehow a deal breaker. I have put 60K + on our gasser, which was our second rig, following a Winny Journey Diesel, and I'll repeat. The claims made that "OMG, every gasser rides like a farm wagon, and shakes itself apart in a few years" are seriously over blown. Sure a diesel rides nicer. It'a also tremedously more expensive, costs a lot more to maintain, and suffers from horrendously stupid depreciation. Nobody needs a motorhome, but a reasonably priced, used gasser is at least a way to not end up losing ten or fifteen thousand a year in depreciation, and end up with a perfectly reliable, comfortable RV that rides and drives just fine.
For those of you that say,"I'm not comfortable with a used MH, who knows what will break?" All I can say is talk to anybody that has a new MH, and is being honest about what a trip through hell that can be. Every year we meet folks who are trying to get through a full snowbird winter in their new rig, without going postal, or wearing the thing out on the countless trips back and forth to a dealer, who may or may not be sucessful in repairing the piece of junk they bought. Sadly, my eleven year old Winnebago is several magnitudes more reliable than some of the high volume garbage from the big two, that I've watched folks suffer with lately.
For those of you that say,"I'm not comfortable with a used MH, who knows what will break?" All I can say is talk to anybody that has a new MH, and is being honest about what a trip through hell that can be. Every year we meet folks who are trying to get through a full snowbird winter in their new rig, without going postal, or wearing the thing out on the countless trips back and forth to a dealer, who may or may not be sucessful in repairing the piece of junk they bought. Sadly, my eleven year old Winnebago is several magnitudes more reliable than some of the high volume garbage from the big two, that I've watched folks suffer with lately.
