Purchasing a Class C with questions
I will be purchasing an RV hopefully within the next few months. Questions always pop into my head so here goes... 1. Pros and Cons of jack levelers? Is there maintenance with levelers? It seem...
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kfp673 wrote:Desert Captain wrote:
Under the heading of "opinions vary"...
Auto leveler systems are: expensive, problematic and for the most part totally unnecessary... basically a solution for which there is no known problem. :h
Their weight comes right off of your payload {and most Class C's, especially any 26 - 30' + are already short of}. Most sites in CG's and especially RV parks are dead level to begin with. Walk around any CG or RV Park and count the number of folks with auto levelers deployed... that are using leggo blocks or good ole 2 X 6's. :S
Levelers are about as reilable as slides and auto steps {as in not very} and provide little if any benefit in most locations. Oh, did I mention that they are ridiculously expensive? All salesmen highly recommend them as in "You have got to get these..." which tells you a lot about the relative mark up involved.
Other than that {Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?}
Like I said.... Opinions and YMMV.
:C
Interestingly, I am 100% on the opposite side of this argument. I am in the market for a new RV and will not buy anything without auto level ever again. I have had RV's for 20 years and most of our camping is east coast in the mountains etc where it is very common to need 4-8" of lift. My last trip was a festival we were attending and it was raining. Unit kept kicking the levelers and took me no less than an hour to get the thing level. My wife says I have run out of course words just from leveling the camper. I think I would go without a shower before auto levers on my next unit ;)
First of all I'm sorry you think this is an argument... actually it is a discussion. A site that requires 6 to 8" of leveling is not a site but a slope. Some levelers are not even capable of making that large of an adjustment. If your rig is 8" off the ground it is a lot of things but stable{safe?} is not one of them. :S
If you need levelers and are willing to give up the payload and the $ by all means have at it. I have never taken more than 2 minutes and two Leggo blocks high, about 1.5", to level our coach but it is only a 24' C. Ironically you see lots of folks with levelers using blocks under their levelers of the same height. :h
