Desert Captain wrote:
The blanket statements I keep reading here that all E-350/450's handle badly and need thousands in improvements are ridiculous. Properly set up they ride, drive and handle just fine.
Right on ... they are ridiculous as general statements.
Our E450 has handled and driven "like a van" since we bought it new in 2006. I did finally have it's alignment checked after owning it for several years and the mechanic showed me examples of beveled shims that he installed. Our Class C handled the same - extremely well - before the alignment and after the alignment.
The only thing I can figure out is that EITHER it must be that right off the assembly line a stock E450 chassis under a small Class C presents no handling problems due to the coach's small box size and light weight ... OR it's the way the RV manufacturer's design distributed the coach's weight versus the chassis wheelbase such that a stock E450 chassis could deal well with the whole coach package. :h
