Motor homes over the years
Compared to some of you I am a fairly new in the motor home world. My first motor home I took delivery 18 years ago on May 16, 2001. Then in Dec. 2002 I took delivery of my first diesel, both being Na...
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My 1996 Sahara has all the original appliances; furnace, fridge, A/Cs microwave. I'm replacing the cooktop this year, not because the old one is broken, but because the DW wants a 3 burner.
The rig is coming up on 150,000 miles with no hint that the CAT 3126 is feeling it's age. Ive had some minor issues - rad expansion tank and a parking brake pressure switch - and I pulled the old jack knife sofa out and replaced the carpet, but pretty much everything else is original. It's had some water damage due to a leaking solar panel that has been fixed and both roof seams have been Eternabonded and Dicored. Even the black and gray tank valves are original.
I work at an RV parts store with a service center and we're selling parts and fixing things that are breaking on 3 year old coaches. And it's things like slide out mechanisms, cracked skylights and leaking windows. Owners are amazed at the lack of quality. On one supposedly high-end coach, we have replaced the refrigerator twice.
I see people justify spending money on a new coach for all sorts of reasons and "not buying someone else's problems" is always in there. It must really be painful to realize that you paid a premium for a new coach only to buy the manufacturer's problems.
The rig is coming up on 150,000 miles with no hint that the CAT 3126 is feeling it's age. Ive had some minor issues - rad expansion tank and a parking brake pressure switch - and I pulled the old jack knife sofa out and replaced the carpet, but pretty much everything else is original. It's had some water damage due to a leaking solar panel that has been fixed and both roof seams have been Eternabonded and Dicored. Even the black and gray tank valves are original.
I work at an RV parts store with a service center and we're selling parts and fixing things that are breaking on 3 year old coaches. And it's things like slide out mechanisms, cracked skylights and leaking windows. Owners are amazed at the lack of quality. On one supposedly high-end coach, we have replaced the refrigerator twice.
I see people justify spending money on a new coach for all sorts of reasons and "not buying someone else's problems" is always in there. It must really be painful to realize that you paid a premium for a new coach only to buy the manufacturer's problems.
