Roof contruction

Winnebago (though the Minnie Winnie 2013's had rubber roofs for a short period of production), Nexus, Lazy Daze, Phoenix Cruiser, Coach House...who am I forgetting?

mr61impala wrote:
After 30 years of TTs we will be retiring and switching to a motorhome, something around 5 years old with a gas engine.

Can you guys point me to units which DO NOT have a rubber roof.

Along with looking at RV's with fiberglass roof. You should look at construction of that roof. Things I would look for are one piece rolled edge to side wall. Crowned from the center to allow water to run off sides.
You may also want to check out how front cap is made and installed. Front windows in the cap seem to be a problem.

You're looking for a C, I take it?

We actually have not decided between a Class A or Class C, we see advantages and disadvantages to each. It's just the 2 of us now with maybe the occasional 3rd person

Recent models of Forest River coaches (Sunseeker and Forester) have FG roofs and it seems some of the newer Jayco's as well.

KristinU wrote:
Winnebago (though the Minnie Winnie 2013's had rubber roofs for a short period of production), Nexus, Lazy Daze, Phoenix Cruiser, Coach House...who am I forgetting?

I don't know of any Winnebagos including Minnie Winnie that have had a rubber roof. I have had 3 Minnie Winnies and all have had fiberglass roof. Dick

When we were doing the great American RV hunt we found that quite a few Holiday Ramblers class A's had fiberglass roofs, no rubber,

dicknellen wrote:

KristinU wrote:
Winnebago (though the Minnie Winnie 2013's had rubber roofs for a short period of production), Nexus, Lazy Daze, Phoenix Cruiser, Coach House...who am I forgetting?

I don't know of any Winnebagos including Minnie Winnie that have had a rubber roof. I have had 3 Minnie Winnies and all have had fiberglass roof. Dick

I take that back, it was the 2014 model year when they stopped the Access and re-introduced the Minnie Winnie. They went with a rubber roof for a short while and then switched back to fiberglass. When we bought ours in 2013 the sales guy had recently been to a conference in Forest City and was told that they would be coming back out with the Minnie Winnie and would be using a rubber roof. That seemed like crazy talk and we figured he just didn't know what he was talking about. Then when we toyed with trading ours in for a new one last year, lo and behold one of the ones we looked at on a dealer lot had a rubber roof. That's when I did some poking around and learned that he was right, but that they changed back pretty quickly.

You'll probably discover that finding a Class C with some kind of a one piece fiberglass roof is easier than finding one that also has it's edges rolled downward all along each side.

FWIW, our 2005 Itasca has the rolled edges - 3 or 4 inches of roll downwards over the side walls. We knew nothing about RV roofs when we bought, so I guess that we lucked out. It's not only that a roof built like that will remain more leakproof, period. It also means that you don't have to do much to keep it that way. No leaks with proper maintenance is one thing - but no leaks with hardly any maintenance is a whole lot better. Thanks to forums like this, you don't need to rely on luck anymore to find out about that kind of quality construction.