Upsizing from Class B
We sold our Pleasure Way Class B that we traveled in for 7 years all over the U.S. and Canada. We are thinking about upsizing to a B+ possibly a PW Pursuit. I would like to hear from someone who has a...
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jjson775 wrote:
Thanks pnichols for the excellent feedback. Does the 101" width of your RV include the extended mirrors?
No. This width does not include the mirrors, which of course stick out just a bit more than the coach's 101 inches so that you can see behind.
However, naturally the mirrors are mounted onto the sides of the cab window posts and the cab is a lot narrower than 101 inches ... so it's only the end mirror part that sticks out wider than 101 inches.
Our mirrors can easily be reached through the rolled down cab windows to be quickly be folded in for going through brush, past tree limbs, in packed parking lots etc.. Our mirrors are also remotely controlled so we can tilt them up to see all the way to the roof edges at the rear and all the way down to see the rear storage doors while driving down the road.
I think that the big rig truck trailers all over U.S. highways are around 101/102 inches wide too .... not including their mirrors sticking out from the sides of their cabs. This means that all narrow-feeling construction zone areas have to be able to allow big rigs to pass through ... so that claustrophobic feeling you might get in a "widebody" (101-102 inches wide) RV is just that ... only a feeling that need not mean you're about to scrape anything.
By the way, our widebody Class C RV provides a roomy enough feeling inside so that we do not miss or need slides - which we didn't want due to the structural strength and leak integrity that you compromise with slides. We sometimes take our small Class C mildly offroad and wanted to keep any bending or twisting distortion in the structure at a minimum when navigating rutted or tipped road surfaces.
