New DP Owner. Maintenance Budget Question
Hello!! We are very excited to be owners of a new to us Winnebago Journey. We will be taking delivery next week. I've done some forum surfing and I havnt found any posts about what to budget on...
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IMO, there's the "chassis stuff" and the "house stuff":
Our DP is on a Freightliner chassis, and we have the annual chassis "stuff" (oils, lubes, filters, etc) done primarily at Freightliner service facilities. We got gouged once by one of them, so now we make sure we get an estimate before we have the work done. Costs are usually between $350 and $800 (told you we got "gouged" once).
House "stuff" includes roof inspection/maintenance, air conditioners, propane, slideouts, awnings, house batteries, and the like. I do much of that myself. I once asked a Camping World place what was included in the "$99 special propane system check" - guy said they connect a pressure gauge to the propane system, pump it to xx PSI, check it 8 hours later. if it still has xx PSI, "Thank you sir, $99 please" - otherwise, "Sorry, sir, we need more money now." So yeah, I do that myself. Most of the house maintenance stuff isn't too hard to learn. Obviously, if I discover something badly out of whack on a slideout or such, I'll take it in for repair, but most "regular maintenance" items are "look and see" or "look at and clean/lubricate it", and I'm not gonna pay a guy $125 an hour just to look at something. I'll look at it myself and (maybe) pay a guy $125 per hour to fix it if necessary.
Our DP is on a Freightliner chassis, and we have the annual chassis "stuff" (oils, lubes, filters, etc) done primarily at Freightliner service facilities. We got gouged once by one of them, so now we make sure we get an estimate before we have the work done. Costs are usually between $350 and $800 (told you we got "gouged" once).
House "stuff" includes roof inspection/maintenance, air conditioners, propane, slideouts, awnings, house batteries, and the like. I do much of that myself. I once asked a Camping World place what was included in the "$99 special propane system check" - guy said they connect a pressure gauge to the propane system, pump it to xx PSI, check it 8 hours later. if it still has xx PSI, "Thank you sir, $99 please" - otherwise, "Sorry, sir, we need more money now." So yeah, I do that myself. Most of the house maintenance stuff isn't too hard to learn. Obviously, if I discover something badly out of whack on a slideout or such, I'll take it in for repair, but most "regular maintenance" items are "look and see" or "look at and clean/lubricate it", and I'm not gonna pay a guy $125 an hour just to look at something. I'll look at it myself and (maybe) pay a guy $125 per hour to fix it if necessary.
