What Happened to Triple E RV?

Quote: "What advantage over this do you see to enclosed tanks being heated by the propane furnace?? "

Triple E Regency with the XL option uses LPG Furnace AND in transit engine heat (heater in rear under bed) to heat holding tanks.

pnichols wrote:

vikrv wrote:
I'd now look to the Forest River C's for enclosed and heated tanks if we wanted a newer model.

Our 24 foot Itasca has electrically heated tanks. What advantage over this do you see to enclosed tanks being heated by the propane furnace??

Granted, it takes pretty good batteries backed up by a generator recharging system (under grey skies) to power the on-off cycling heating pads day and night if drycamping in 24/7 freezing weather .... but from what I read many/most cold weather campers are on hookups anyway in cold weather, so the converter is powering the tank heating pads.

Take a look at my sig photo. Ski area at 6300 feet, <20 F overnight with 20MPH wind. Tank heater pads with furnace also running would not last half the night. No hookups.

The advantage of Triple E is that it could do the same, except at 0F.

The 25 foot Chevy cutaway van based Libero Class Almost-C still seems to be available for 2014. How much different is this model from the original Triple E Class C 24 footer? I wonder if they would custom build a Libero for a buyer on the Ford E450 or Chevy 4500 chassis for more ruggedness and to get the larger 55 or 57 gallon fuel tank?:

http://www.leisurevans.com/libero/specifications.html#anchor

vikrv wrote:
I'd now look to the Forest River C's for enclosed and heated tanks if we wanted a newer model.

Our 24 foot Itasca has electrically heated tanks. What advantage over this do you see to enclosed tanks being heated by the propane furnace??

Granted, it takes pretty good batteries backed up by a generator recharging system (under grey skies) to power the on-off cycling heating pads day and night if drycamping in 24/7 freezing weather .... but from what I read many/most cold weather campers are on hookups anyway in cold weather, so the converter is powering the tank heating pads.

Hard to compare a Triple E to a Forest River... but if that's the most important requirement for you, I guess it will be necessary.

And yes, the GT24 was a super unit. I almost bought one because of the floor plan and winter advantages, but decided to go with the Chevy.

Makes sense, low demand and unavailable labor...a number of folks on this C forum had good reports of the Regency GT24 model. I'd now look to the Forest River C's for enclosed and heated tanks if we wanted a newer model.

I'd say that there are two things going on... the first is that their little Ford based C wasn't a big seller and there is the question of what is going to happen with the Ford platform in the next few years.

But more important is that the LTV small C's (Unity, Serenity, Libero) are selling so well that the factory can't keep up with the orders. They also dropped the small Class B based on the Chevy van and are only doing Sprinter B's. Theirs is a small factory in a small town. Like all companies near the North Dakota/Montana/Saskatchewan/BC oil boom, they are having problems keeping skilled employees making expansion difficult to keep up with demand.

They've made savvy business decisions based on the current market... and concentrating on their best sellers.

Interesting. I loved my Class C - Triple E Senator 28XL. It's sad if they are gone, they always provided great information when needed.

They started focusing on small B+ models like the Serenity and Libero as Leisure Travel Vans, class B models, as well as "B"s with a slideout like the Free Spirit SS.