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Bruce_Brown
Mar 16, 2017Moderator
This sounds a lot like our old Fleetwood Flair was. Every single time we took it somewhere it ended up back in the shop -EVERY SINGLE TIME. We got to the point where we would make an appointment before we left, the only mystery was what was going to need fixing next.
In our case we DID have it looked at and it had a clean bill of health. The issues were more of what couldn't be seen.
What to do? We turned lemons into lemonade.
Short version of a long story is...
We were camping with friends who had just bought a brand new Winnie, with a slide - man was that thing NICE! My wife and I got to thinking, "they're in about the same income bracket as us, how do they do it" - so we asked them.
They asked how long we planned to keep ours and if we planned on sticking with the RV thing. Our answer was we loved the camping part, we're trading just as soon as we can. We ran the numbers and sure enough, when we added our monthly payment together with our monthly repair bills it was perfectly clear - we could afford new. In fact, between the bank and the shop we were already paying like we had new!
Soon after that we ordered our first new MH and have never looked back. Things have changed a lot since then but the basis of the story remains the same. Sometimes you'll go broke saving money.
My advice - cut your losses now and move on to something newer and better. And as my brother often says, "I'm not asking you to do something I haven't already done myself".
Good luck.
In our case we DID have it looked at and it had a clean bill of health. The issues were more of what couldn't be seen.
What to do? We turned lemons into lemonade.
Short version of a long story is...
We were camping with friends who had just bought a brand new Winnie, with a slide - man was that thing NICE! My wife and I got to thinking, "they're in about the same income bracket as us, how do they do it" - so we asked them.
They asked how long we planned to keep ours and if we planned on sticking with the RV thing. Our answer was we loved the camping part, we're trading just as soon as we can. We ran the numbers and sure enough, when we added our monthly payment together with our monthly repair bills it was perfectly clear - we could afford new. In fact, between the bank and the shop we were already paying like we had new!
Soon after that we ordered our first new MH and have never looked back. Things have changed a lot since then but the basis of the story remains the same. Sometimes you'll go broke saving money.
My advice - cut your losses now and move on to something newer and better. And as my brother often says, "I'm not asking you to do something I haven't already done myself".
Good luck.
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