Isn't High Mileage Still a Problem on DP's
I have always heard that 100,000/+ miles is just breaking in a diesel MH. Lack of use, indicated by low mileage, is a bad thing. NADA doesn't even want you to include mileage in looking up values. ...
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Some COACHES and CHASSIS are built for 1,000,000 miles of use, like the Prevost chassis motor homes. These are the very expensive RV's used by NASCAR teams, Hollywood celebrities, corporations, and anyone else that has the means to afford them. Many of these are listed for sale as used high end coaches, with hundreds of thousands of miles, and they are still going strong, and still fetch some pretty big bucks. These are built on the same chassis as the coast to coast Trailways and Greyhound buses.
Most other diesel coaches fall in the other category and they are NOT designed for a million miles but they can do several hundred thousand miles with proper maintenance. As you read on this forum, diesel engines do break down and DP chassis and suspension items do break.
The facts are that if you do proper maintenance on ANY coach, and replace everything that breaks or wears out, there is no mileage limit. The limit is reached when it is no longer financially feasible or practical to continue to dump money in to a coach that is worn out. That does not mean that an old coach cannot continue to be used, but at a certain point in time, the coach is worth less at resale than the cost needed to keep it running.
Most other diesel coaches fall in the other category and they are NOT designed for a million miles but they can do several hundred thousand miles with proper maintenance. As you read on this forum, diesel engines do break down and DP chassis and suspension items do break.
The facts are that if you do proper maintenance on ANY coach, and replace everything that breaks or wears out, there is no mileage limit. The limit is reached when it is no longer financially feasible or practical to continue to dump money in to a coach that is worn out. That does not mean that an old coach cannot continue to be used, but at a certain point in time, the coach is worth less at resale than the cost needed to keep it running.
