Please Help - 1999 Tiffin - Asking for Advise ASAP

Monkeyrun wrote:
Well, the coach has been home in my driveway since late June. I had a heart attack and then bypass surgery mid May, that was a week or so after writing the check for the BUS. Ultimately I ended up negotiating the price more in my favor, in fact to a point that I could not walk away. I have been going through it, cleaning and making minor repairs. Everything works fine and after the dealer did their systems check she ended up with a new water pump, hot water heater and a few other items due their poor winterization.

I serviced the genset myself and will be taking it to my friend (a retired diesel mechanic) tomorrow for him to fully service the engine and transmission. The roof is in good shape on top, some bubbles on the radius which I will repair, tape and then coat the entire roof surface.

One thing I have noticed is that the systems are easy to work on in this coach, which is a blessing.

sorry about your medical issues, but do I understand that you have slight bubbles in your rubber roof and you plan on slitting them and taping them before coating? I would rethink that myself if they are purely cosmetic in nature.
bumpy

Well, the coach has been home in my driveway since late June. I had a heart attack and then bypass surgery mid May, that was a week or so after writing the check for the BUS. Ultimately I ended up negotiating the price more in my favor, in fact to a point that I could not walk away. I have been going through it, cleaning and making minor repairs. Everything works fine and after the dealer did their systems check she ended up with a new water pump, hot water heater and a few other items due their poor winterization.

I serviced the genset myself and will be taking it to my friend (a retired diesel mechanic) tomorrow for him to fully service the engine and transmission. The roof is in good shape on top, some bubbles on the radius which I will repair, tape and then coat the entire roof surface.

One thing I have noticed is that the systems are easy to work on in this coach, which is a blessing.

Thanks, I know what you are both saying. I did call Tiffin early on, no answer, left a message and received no reply. I'll attempt again.

This place is like every other dealer I have attempted to do business with. I have come to the realization that they are all crooked and in my mind now have the status of politician, lawyer or used car salesman. Given that I have vetted this coach quite well and am familiar with it's misgivings, the price is attractive. The sales contract will clearly state that all chassis and coach components will be in operational condition.

As an aside, I have found several crooked private sellers as well.

I don't think that they have been exactly truthful to you right along, and you think they will be truthful today, cause the boss wants to move that coach? They could move it down to Bath, NY and show it again before selling it "at a loss". There is a reason for everything, and it isn't always good.

To get specific info about issues with this model of Tiffin, I'd call Tiffin. They may even have records on this unit if you have the VIN #. I don't have their number on my phone but if you go to thier website you can find contact information. www.tiffinmotorhomes.com

I scratched this off my list after the last visit when the young salesman raised his voice to me over the phone "this is what I need you to do" he said, in regard to bringing payment to him. I was so mad that I sent an email thanks but no thanks.

Yesterday I am working away in my office and the store manager calls me and wants to know if I am still interested. This is a multi store, privately owned company. Manager claims that he spoke with the VP and obtained permission to go completely through the coach and fix everything from top to bottom, clean it, and sell at a loss to move it out of inventory. Selling at a loss, not sure about that, however, this works for me. I explained why I walked the last time, seems the store coaches sales people in some phrases to assist them with selling. My response to him? You need to watch who you use those stale sales techniques on, they might work on some younger folks, but us old salts will take a burn to them. Saturday it's back up there to test drive.

This is the status to date. I discussed the roof with an independent shop and based upon my description, they said to either 1. leave it alone, it is OK for a time yet or 2. coat it and tape the seams. The dealer dropped another $5000 so now this is a deal which allows me some wiggle room relative to repairs. So I'm giving this serious thought, we have not seen a layout we like as well as this coach including its driver side door and booth dinette. By the way, they had to put a new starter and batteries in it last week. Good for me ;-)

I checked out that liquid rubber, they got back to me with a question about the bubbles I described. Waiting for another reply.

This genset has 2000 hours. Mileage is 76k on the rig.

Don't lose sight of the fact that you are considering a older, used RV at very low prices. You are not going to find a low hour RV in like new condition for the price you are seeking.

Generator hours? low or high? Forget this issue, if the gen works, it works. If the hours are low it could mean it was easy to pull the wire that connects to the hour meter. Low hours can also mean a gen that sat to long without being run, much worse than running it to much.