I am considering purchasing a new class A. I have checked dealers in my town on prices for the unit and for my trade in. I have also contacted dealers nationwide. I can get a better sale price and better trade in price elsewhere but I wonder is it worth the savings? Here are my thoughts/questions.1. Does having a local dealer that you purchased from really matter once you purchased the coach? Are they really going to treat you differently with regards to service down the line since you purchased from them ? Or is it all the same once you sign the papers?2. If I do purchase a new coach from out of town and I need warranty work done am I obligated to contact my purchase dealer first ? Or do I contact Fleetwood and authorize a local shop to do the work? I am looking at a Fleetwood Bounder. My current thinking is that any savings of over $20,000 over the entire deal with worth buying from out of state. $10-15k savings is kinda in the grey zone and depends on distance. Anything less than $10k in savings might not be worth it in the end.Any thoughts or advice on this will be much appreciated. Thank you.

Buy local. Go to your local dealer with your best price and show tyhem. They will meet in the middle. There will be issues under warranty. The money you save going out of town will be forgotten.

IMO, not one iota. Our RV never saw the selling dealers lot after we pulled out of the driveway that day. Never had a local dealer refuse to do warranty work and after the warranty was up, for sure they won't turn away a paying customer. Personally if the NET savings was even in the $2K region, I would still go for the savings.

I disagree, $10,000.00 to $20,000.00 to most people is not chump change! And if you're buying a new coach under warrantee the manufacturer is going to make sure you're handled. After that the service you'll get from a dealer depends on many things. But don't be so quick to give up 10 grand!!!

Currently my local dealer (Colorado Springs, Colorado) is about $15,000 higher on the purchase price of the Bounder than from a out of state dealers (Texas, Idaho, New Mexico).

A lot in the first year if they have a decent service department. Otherwise nothing.

How much does your dealer location matter in a purchase?

Mr_Mark1
Explorer
Oct 21, 2016
usersmanual wrote:
Mr.Mark wrote:
In the 9 yrs. of owning 2 Class A motorhomes (2008 Monaco Dynasty and a 2015 Liberty), we have never had the experience of weeks waiting for parts or service. There is no way I would do business with a service dept. that had me wait like that.

MM.

in all fairness both ways mark when u spend in the 1.3-1.5 million area like u one should never expect nor run into a warrenty wait issue

I didn't buy a used motorhome! LOL! ha ha.

MM.

And, it's spelled 'warranty'.
usersmanual
Explorer
Oct 21, 2016
Mr.Mark wrote:
In the 9 yrs. of owning 2 Class A motorhomes (2008 Monaco Dynasty and a 2015 Liberty), we have never had the experience of weeks waiting for parts or service. There is no way I would do business with a service dept. that had me wait like that.

MM.

in all fairness both ways mark when u spend in the 1.3-1.5 million area like u one should never expect nor run into a warrenty wait issue
Mr_Mark1
Explorer
Oct 21, 2016
In the 9 yrs. of owning 2 Class A motorhomes (2008 Monaco Dynasty and a 2015 Liberty), we have never had the experience of weeks waiting for parts or service. There is no way I would do business with a service dept. that had me wait like that.

MM.
usersmanual
Explorer
Oct 20, 2016
2gypsies wrote:
Mile High wrote:
What I would call a typical Dealer service experience, at least in my experiences:

4-6 weeks out for an appointment
Appt day means you get to park it on lot and 1-3 weeks for a tech to look.
If parts are needed from the manufacturer, up to 4 more weeks.

I've planned ahead before allowing 2 months for repair, and it always ends that I get the delivery the day before vacation and only after getting aggressive.

If anyone has had a better experience than that, outside of new purchase "we owe" items, they sure don't talk about it! From what I can tell, my experiences are the normal.

I don't think this is the norm. How do you think the thousands and thousands of full-timers out there deal with this? Sit in a motel for months? Definitely not.

exactly and to the point its all sour grapes and not true at all
(maybe true in his case) but not in thousands of others
2gypsies1
Explorer III
Oct 20, 2016
Mile High wrote:
What I would call a typical Dealer service experience, at least in my experiences:

4-6 weeks out for an appointment
Appt day means you get to park it on lot and 1-3 weeks for a tech to look.
If parts are needed from the manufacturer, up to 4 more weeks.

I've planned ahead before allowing 2 months for repair, and it always ends that I get the delivery the day before vacation and only after getting aggressive.

If anyone has had a better experience than that, outside of new purchase "we owe" items, they sure don't talk about it! From what I can tell, my experiences are the normal.

I don't think this is the norm. How do you think the thousands and thousands of full-timers out there deal with this? Sit in a motel for months? Definitely not.
doc_brown
Explorer
Oct 20, 2016
Zero
Mondooker
Explorer
Oct 20, 2016
I forgot about Nexus, you buy direct from them. They are the only Class A that's true of that I know of?
ljr
Nomad
Oct 20, 2016
Mondooker wrote:
Ive never heard of buying from the factory? All coach builders I know of have you buy through the dealer. Some let you pick up from the factory like Newmar but you buy it through the dealer!

This was a FW. Specifically a NuWa Hitchhiker. Ordered from and delivered at the factory in Chanute, KS. They are now sales only. No production.
Mondooker
Explorer
Oct 20, 2016
Ive never heard of buying from the factory? All coach builders I know of have you buy through the dealer. Some let you pick up from the factory like Newmar but you buy it through the dealer!
ljr
Nomad
Oct 20, 2016
To me...zero. I bought my first two TTs from a nearby dealer thinking customer loyalty would payoff in after sale support. It didn't. They refused to do any warranty work. I know readers are thinking there must be more to this. There isn't.

I bought my current FW at the factory 1000 miles away and I'd do it again.

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