2014 Jayco Greyhawk --- opinions?
I don't want to wear out my welcome on the C Forum, but all of your responses have been so helpful. My head is spinning. The more I research, the more confused I get. One website touts Jayco as wo...
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For what it's worth:
1. Have that puppy weighed before you buy!! Our Winnie is similar in that we have two slides and factory installed HWH jacks on our unit. The Jayco wheel base/length ratio is slightly more than ours, BUT weight on the rear axle may be an issue.
The fit and finish of our Winnie is absolutely fantastic; however, according to Ford's recommendations, we should have had around 1,000 lbs. left over on the rear axle to play with - we discovered after the fact that we only have around 700 lbs. That may still sound like a lot, but the engineers shorted us about 30% of our rear axle capacity. (If you care, I have several threads from 2010 regarding this once we discovered the problem). We when leave on a trip, we are often 900-1000 lbs. under gross, but 100-150 lbs overweight on the rear axle. We have thrown as much stuff out as possible and moved as much forward as we can - and that is with empty gray/black tanks, only 6 gallons of fresh water and two adults that total 300 of those lbs. So, please don't get caught off guard like we did. Our carrying capacity is over 1,900 lbs, but there is no way we could even get close to that much weight distributed properly in our motorhome.
2. Also, we love our jacks, but please check the clearance of the rear jacks - actually drive the thing and find a few sloped drives etc. to test them - we have had numerous occurrences where our rear jacks would have dragged. In fact, we bent one of them just turning into a state park campground loop from the main road in a park outside of St. Louis. I was quite surprised when this happened and discovered it doesn't take that much of a slope for those rear jacks to "kiss" the pavement. Each unit will obviously be unique due to wheelbase, length of rear overhang etc., but be aware - the rear jacks might be lower than you think.
1. Have that puppy weighed before you buy!! Our Winnie is similar in that we have two slides and factory installed HWH jacks on our unit. The Jayco wheel base/length ratio is slightly more than ours, BUT weight on the rear axle may be an issue.
The fit and finish of our Winnie is absolutely fantastic; however, according to Ford's recommendations, we should have had around 1,000 lbs. left over on the rear axle to play with - we discovered after the fact that we only have around 700 lbs. That may still sound like a lot, but the engineers shorted us about 30% of our rear axle capacity. (If you care, I have several threads from 2010 regarding this once we discovered the problem). We when leave on a trip, we are often 900-1000 lbs. under gross, but 100-150 lbs overweight on the rear axle. We have thrown as much stuff out as possible and moved as much forward as we can - and that is with empty gray/black tanks, only 6 gallons of fresh water and two adults that total 300 of those lbs. So, please don't get caught off guard like we did. Our carrying capacity is over 1,900 lbs, but there is no way we could even get close to that much weight distributed properly in our motorhome.
2. Also, we love our jacks, but please check the clearance of the rear jacks - actually drive the thing and find a few sloped drives etc. to test them - we have had numerous occurrences where our rear jacks would have dragged. In fact, we bent one of them just turning into a state park campground loop from the main road in a park outside of St. Louis. I was quite surprised when this happened and discovered it doesn't take that much of a slope for those rear jacks to "kiss" the pavement. Each unit will obviously be unique due to wheelbase, length of rear overhang etc., but be aware - the rear jacks might be lower than you think.
