afrescop wrote:
I never could understand why 32,000 miles on a 12 year old coach is a good thing? It means it sat, A LOT. Motors, transmissions and tires are meant to be driven not to sit. Our recently sold 2013 RV had 20,000 miles. It got used, as in driven. When we determined it was going to sit too much it was sold and we no longer RV. It didn't sit unused for years. Perhaps someone can explain the rational of why a low mileage, old RV is a good thing?
It doesn't always mean that it sat a lot; it could be that it was used only relatively locally. 3000 miles a year can mean a good bit of local-ish camping in state parks over weekends or going to area fairs or kids games or such. It could also mean full-time (or long-term seasonal) use by people who drive to a park and live there for a few months, which I guess might be considered sitting from a chassis point of view but not, in my estimation, from an overall RV point of view.
Twelve year old tires are very old regardless of how many miles they have on them. I highly doubt a 12 year old transmission with 32,000 miles would be in worse shape than a 12 year old transmission with 90,000 miles on it (or whatever would seem more proper). In short, I'm not convinced that sitting is really much of a problem, as much as plain aging. Sitting without proper care and maintenance, such as keeping caulking on seams, is of course a different matter altogether...but the same can be said for lots of use without maintenance.
