Interested (again) in used Class A

Hi Marty, I recently restored a 1989 31ft. Fleetwood Bounder. I might be interested in selling. It has been in the family for several years. I am the third owner. It has 60K miles on it. Everything works excellent. I might be looking for a MH that has slide outs. This MH does not have slide outs.

FWIW when we had our Shepherd we never had an issue at any campground. I have heard of the restrictions, but we never ran into one. I only know of one campground that has the restriction. my buddy went there once. between his weekend there and the reviews on RV park reviews we aren't missing anything! we had him for 10 1/2 years. Not sure I would be looking at MH`s just because of a breed restriction. Just something to think about.

Personally, I would not buy a used DP with more than 300,000 miles on it. At that mileage it will need a tune up soon.....:W..anything with less than 200,000 is ok...100,000 and it's just getting broken in......Dennis

Marty - Condition is more important than miles on either a gas or diesel motorhome in my opinion. Used to be gas motors were done on motorhomes under 100,000 miles. That is no longer the case.

The reason I say condition is most important is that you may find a low miles or lower miles motorhome that someone lived in for five years and hardly drove. Many of the systems may be ready for replacement. Or you could find a higher miles coach that was carefully maintained and was mostly driven to Nascar races. So it got lots of miles and hardly any wear on the house itself.

Another miles issue is lot rot. When things sit without use many times they go bad. This is certainly the case with tires and seals.

Do miles count at all? Sure. But keep in mind that a coach with a lot of miles is very likely to drive well and be fun behind the wheel. A low miles coach may be a bear to keep going straight down the highway and so it did not get driven much.

When buying a lower cost coach simpler is likely to cost less to maintain. If a motorhome cost originally 400,000 dollars and you can now buy it quite used for 35,000, remember the maintenance costs will somewhat reflect the original purchase price. Higher cost originally = more cost to maintain.

You can certainly find an older DP in that range with slides. Lots of them on the normal RV sales sites.