Repair costs and frequency frustration
We like our 15 year old 30 ft. Class C we've had for 7 years. Reliability has always been up and down. We had a pretty good couple of years of repair costs we could live with but now we're discourage...
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Jayco-noslide wrote:
Appreciate all comments. Forgot to mention; there is a bearing noise so I don't doubt the need. I actually don't have a cost estimate yet but will get one at an alignment shop in a day or so which works on a lot of motor homes. We've decided to proceed with the repair, use it for our snowbird trip, meanwhile looking at downsize alternatives, then decide. Additional factor is that I'm 76 and sometimes would like to simplify, downsize and eliminate a TOAD.
We started and have remained "downsized" ... touring and camping in only a 24 foot Class C with no slides and no toad. It's fine for the two of us during several trips per year (we're not full-timers).
We just returned from over a 3-week tour in the West - we left home fully stocked and had to shop only twice once during the trip for some grocery restocking - which is easy in parking lots with only a 24 foot Class C. Stopping for fast foot lunches in crowded parking lots is also simple. Our longest trips in it have been 9-week and 10-week multi-thousand mile tours of the U.S.. Alaska is next on our long-trip list using our Class C.
Since our rig is small, it's way easier and less resource consumptive to keep it warm and keep it cool. We take showers in it and wash our small dog in it's shower stall, too.
A small RV can be the only way to go for really hassle-free comfortable RVing.
