Tiffin vs Newmar

Mile High wrote:

donfrump wrote:

Mile High wrote:
Ellipse/Tour? They seem to offer more features that the Allegro Red or Newmar Ventana or Entegra Aspire anyway, for competitive pricing, and they have been around forever.

a Entegra Aspire is a long ways up the food chain from any of the above mentioned motor homes including the tour

I guess I don't see it that way - Aspire has non-painted slides, non-diesel aqua-hot, all standard on the others including Tour. The Anthem is nice, but nothing impressed me much about the Aspire.

maybe not you personally but its most certainly a big step above ventura and red just in the fact of length with tag axle and 450HP ISL and aqua hot heat systems to name but a few superior things
I should not include the tour (misspoke )had another model in my mind at the time sorry but red and ventura are simply not anywhere near the category of the aspire

donfrump wrote:

Mile High wrote:
Ellipse/Tour? They seem to offer more features that the Allegro Red or Newmar Ventana or Entegra Aspire anyway, for competitive pricing, and they have been around forever.

a Entegra Aspire is a long ways up the food chain from any of the above mentioned motor homes including the tour

I guess I don't see it that way - Aspire has non-painted slides, non-diesel aqua-hot, all standard on the others including Tour. The Anthem is nice, but nothing impressed me much about the Aspire.

Mile High wrote:
Ellipse/Tour? They seem to offer more features that the Allegro Red or Newmar Ventana or Entegra Aspire anyway, for competitive pricing, and they have been around forever.

a Entegra Aspire is a long ways up the food chain from any of the above mentioned motor homes including the tour

Ellipse/Tour? They seem to offer more features that the Allegro Red or Newmar Ventana or Entegra Aspire anyway, for competitive pricing, and they have been around forever.

My post from The earlier Newmar vs Tiffin thread;

We're on our 3rd Newmar, my parents owned a Tiffin, good friends of ours owned a Tiffin.

If we were buying today Tiffin would NOT be on our list to even consider. IMO they are the most over rated MH on the market today. They do have a great reputation for factory service, and it seems most Tiffin owners know it.

The parents made the trip to Red Bay, the "fixes" didn't last as long as the trip home. Theirs spent a lot of time in my garage.

Our friends Allegro Bus made the trip 3 times. When it needed to go again they gave up on it and went back to a Winnebago.

I'm a big Newmar fan, for a reason. Ours have been excellent units with very few repairs. We've never needed to repair any "Newmar" part of the coach.

Add in Comfort Drive and its an easy decision.

RayChez wrote:

wolfe10 wrote:
BOTH are good mid-quality/mid price motorhome manufacturers.

No point in "my Ford is better than your Chevy" comparisons.

I agree with this post, but if you want a really good coach, check the ForeTravel and the American coaches. They are great coaches.

I don't think anyone can dispute the Fore Travel BUT Newmar is so much better in QUALITY OVER THE AMERICAN,there is no comparison ......the American is a great looking coach, but it ends with the look....there is ABSOLUTELY no QUALITY CONTROL at American....they are terrible
Now, the American Service Center is better to deal with than the Newmar Factory Service Center....and the reason is they see all the Factory Mistakes...and know how to fix almost all of them.....they get so much experience.....If American made their Service Center the QUALITY CONTROL center....that might help quite a bit..Chuck

wolfe10 wrote:
BOTH are good mid-quality/mid price motorhome manufacturers.

No point in "my Ford is better than your Chevy" comparisons.

I agree with this post, but if you want a really good coach, check the ForeTravel and the American coaches. They are great coaches.

Tom/Barb wrote:

PF&PM wrote:
We had windshield fitment issue with our Newmar.. went back and forth for years with Newmar. Finally got it repaired at Duncan Industries in Elkhart,. Newmar finally came through with a portion of the repair bill as a measure of "good faith" as they called it but admitting no responsibility for the ongoing windshield popping out issue. Duncan repaired it citing a bad fit at the factory.

I don't know if this was the issue that prompted the change in method of attaching the wind screens in the newer Newmars, but it was a good change, they are installed the same way the newer cars have the window glued in on a major structure that can not move.

I suspect that's why they all have gone that way

PF&PM wrote:
We had windshield fitment issue with our Newmar.. went back and forth for years with Newmar. Finally got it repaired at Duncan Industries in Elkhart,. Newmar finally came through with a portion of the repair bill as a measure of "good faith" as they called it but admitting no responsibility for the ongoing windshield popping out issue. Duncan repaired it citing a bad fit at the factory.

I don't know if this was the issue that prompted the change in method of attaching the wind screens in the newer Newmars, but it was a good change, they are installed the same way the newer cars have the window glued in on a major structure that can not move.

PF&PM wrote:
We had windshield fitment issue with our Newmar.. went back and forth for years with Newmar. Finally got it repaired at Duncan Industries in Elkhart,. Newmar finally came through with a portion of the repair bill as a measure of "good faith" as they called it but admitting no responsibility for the ongoing windshield popping out issue. Duncan repaired it citing a bad fit at the factory.

Interesting story and I have similar story with Tiffin. My windshield poped out on my 2008 AB in summer of 2013. I called tiffin to order a new rubber and asked Don Boyd if there was anything I should be aware of when refitting the huge windshield.He said he could not recall it being a problem but added they would pay 6 hours R+R.Now bear in mind I was not asking for a single dime and they paid the bill $634.00
I paid for the new seal.To me it don't get better than that