Looking at a 96 Coachmen Santara....
Good morning all! I am new to the RV community, and whatever RV I purchase, will be my first! I am wanting to purchase a RV that I will use a couple times a year, but also to have on my property fo...
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RoysRV wrote:
I am considering paying a local RV expert $150 for an inspection and if it comes out ok, maybe offering $15,000?
I am worried about the weight load on the chassis with all of the custom work though. I'm not quite sure how a RV inspection would tell you if its over or close to the weight restriction.
If you're hiring the independent expert, you can ask them as part of it to make some comments about what they might value the unit at.
You can't precisely tell weight from looking, though of course extreme cases might be more or less obvious. The reliable way to tell is to take the motorhome to a set of scales (such as at a truck stop) and pay to have it weighed. I think it's typically something like $10. In this case, I would consider that money very well spent. Maybe the seller has that information already...and are trustworthy...but I personally would probably still want independent verification.
When weighing, it's important to make note of how full the various tanks are and preferably approximately where they're located. Full versus empty tanks will make the weight differ by hundreds of pounds.
