Jayco class A experiences
We've been camping for 40 years and now want to move up to a class A. Started in the back of. suburban to a tent to a pop up to a class c to a couple of TT. Although we have had a great experience i...
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Any MH is going to have some issues. They are complex beasts. That and they are also homes that are travelling 60+/- mph down the sometimes poor roadways of America. One must be either patient with the service department or handy with basic hand tools to own one, REGARDLESS of brand. Also routine maintenance, to include checking to make sure things don't come (or work) or work themselves loose is a regular part of ownership.
We have owned Jayco's (HTT's) and currently own a Winnebago Vista 35F Class A. Remarkably, as most everyone already knows, most of the "parts and pieces" come off the shelf from vendors and the "Brand Name Manufacturer" just screws them together....most typically on a Ford F53 chassis.
We learned on our last trip that the TV in the salon was in black and white while hooked to the portable satellite dish. This was the first time we hooked up the satellite dish so we enjoyed tinkering around trying to figure out why the Exterior TV had a crisp color picture but the salon TV was snowy and B&W, yet on over the air crisp color. Chased wires and splitters for an afternoon and even dismounted TV's to determine that it was apparently the TV. When you take the TV from the bedroom and plug it in the spot in the salon the dish is crisp, clear & color. Plug the 40" salon TV back in and fuzzy black and white. Was this a problem with Winnebago??????? No, they wired the coach properly, how are they to know that one subsection of a major brand TV doesn't work properly.
Jayco makes a nice unit and the thousands of people who are satisfied don't take time to come to a message board to brag, they are out using their units.
I have found that some, NOT ALL (don't flame me) people who get on message boards to complain are people who can't be pleased under any circumstances, so I am always hesitant to take serious people who complain without backing their complaint up without any specifics to frame it.
We have owned Jayco's (HTT's) and currently own a Winnebago Vista 35F Class A. Remarkably, as most everyone already knows, most of the "parts and pieces" come off the shelf from vendors and the "Brand Name Manufacturer" just screws them together....most typically on a Ford F53 chassis.
We learned on our last trip that the TV in the salon was in black and white while hooked to the portable satellite dish. This was the first time we hooked up the satellite dish so we enjoyed tinkering around trying to figure out why the Exterior TV had a crisp color picture but the salon TV was snowy and B&W, yet on over the air crisp color. Chased wires and splitters for an afternoon and even dismounted TV's to determine that it was apparently the TV. When you take the TV from the bedroom and plug it in the spot in the salon the dish is crisp, clear & color. Plug the 40" salon TV back in and fuzzy black and white. Was this a problem with Winnebago??????? No, they wired the coach properly, how are they to know that one subsection of a major brand TV doesn't work properly.
Jayco makes a nice unit and the thousands of people who are satisfied don't take time to come to a message board to brag, they are out using their units.
I have found that some, NOT ALL (don't flame me) people who get on message boards to complain are people who can't be pleased under any circumstances, so I am always hesitant to take serious people who complain without backing their complaint up without any specifics to frame it.
