Gas or diesel?

wincrasher65 wrote:
dave,

RVIA is the organization that sets the definitions. They regulate/govern the industry, are their trade group and lobbying arm. They certify that RV's meet the guidelines. Not wikipedia, or any individual builder.

In their definition, it's either a B or a C. There is no B+ regardless of what individual manufacturers claim. A B is a van, a C is on a cut-away. A bed over cab is NOT part of the definition. They just say it's an indicator of some.

The forum is structured the same way. If someone in here starts talking about a B, then the assumption is it's a van conversion. Currently you can get vans in gas or diesel. Not Sprinters, but Fords, Chevy (in years past) and soon Promaster (gas only right now).

A diesel generator is not available from 99% of the builders. Roadtrek, Advanced and the rest are now going with the extra alternator setup. That is because the size requirements of the diesel genset mean that you have to give up tankage size or battery bank - there just isn't room for everything in a B. If sportsmobile is still offering the deisel generator in new builds (which we haven't confirmed they are)that means they are giving something else up. But they are a totally build to order outfit - they'll make whatever you want, generally, if it's a good idea or not.

All your mainstream builders have a narrow set of offerings. Please name one - winnebago, pleasureway, great west, roadtrek, etc, that is offering a diesel generator on new builds. I bet you can't. If you find any links, go ahead and post them.

Please send me the link to the RIVA definition Id like to see it.
This is all I can find and every one has cab over on a truck chassis
http://www.rvia.org/?ESID=TypeCMHs

RIGHT FROM THEIR DEFINITION PAGE "Optional sleeping space over the cab"

Setting aside the class C bit .

I showed 2 sport mobiles that have them that are clearly B's with no discussion.

Extended idling with a diesel is a bone of contention amongst many up fitters
Advanced RV mentioned this as well in their AC challenge.
(people say thats old info but don't show any different or updated statements to the contrary)

There are several advanced RV clients that have mentioned that can't run their AC all night because of this- easy to find on sprinter source forum.

Now you want to see MORE links. Pretty clearly its an option and is available, but most don't go for it because of cost. - thats different from "you can't get it".

I think you need to show some link that say these vendors ARENT putting diesels in.
Ive already showed at least 2 that ARE.

A rear mount genset only gives up spare tire space and from what I can tell the hitch is lower than the genset.



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