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Butch50
Feb 15, 2016Explorer
Ya know, Ya Know I kind of getting tired of people that have never driven a Sprinter chassis MH. I have and I own one!!!!. I have had Ford E series MH and I have also had Chevy and even the Dodge 300 series MH with a 440. I have had class A MH from a 25' on a Chevy chassis with a 454 and other sizes all the way to a 36' DP on a Freightliner chassis with a Cummins engine. So I have pretty good idea how they handle and drive and I'm here to tell all of you that you really need t drive one on a long road trip to see how they handle. Where I live in Arkansas we have a lot of curvy 2 lane roads and I have taken my Sprinter on a bunch of them and like stated before they handle great. Corner great. This is also towing my Subaru Crosstrek behind it.
I have traveled across the plains from here to CO with strong cross winds and didn't have any problems. Sure I could feel that it was blowing but I still traveled at 65MPH and I was towing also.
I just crawled under my Sprinter to take a look at the frame under it and it is neither a C channel nor an L frame. The rear where I looked over the rear axle and all the way to the rear and as far as I could see to the front it was a boxed frame. This is just about the strongest frame that you can have under a rig. Newer Chevy and Dodge pickups are mostly using boxed frames also.
If people want to know how they handle they need to talk to people that have them or have had them to really get the honest answer without all the guess work going on here. If you want to know how a BMW handles do you talk to someone that has never owned one and drives a older Chevy Impala tanks from the 1970s I don't think you would.
ON EDIT: I forgot to tell why the frame is flat over the rear axle. This is built for a flatbed and the hump over the axle makes it harder to put a flat bed on the truck. Take a look at the Ford F450/550 and Dodge 4500/5500 commercial rigs and guess what they have flat frames over the rear axle also. Done for a reason. There are more of these rigs used for box and flat beds especially overseas than for MH chassis.
I have traveled across the plains from here to CO with strong cross winds and didn't have any problems. Sure I could feel that it was blowing but I still traveled at 65MPH and I was towing also.
I just crawled under my Sprinter to take a look at the frame under it and it is neither a C channel nor an L frame. The rear where I looked over the rear axle and all the way to the rear and as far as I could see to the front it was a boxed frame. This is just about the strongest frame that you can have under a rig. Newer Chevy and Dodge pickups are mostly using boxed frames also.
If people want to know how they handle they need to talk to people that have them or have had them to really get the honest answer without all the guess work going on here. If you want to know how a BMW handles do you talk to someone that has never owned one and drives a older Chevy Impala tanks from the 1970s I don't think you would.
ON EDIT: I forgot to tell why the frame is flat over the rear axle. This is built for a flatbed and the hump over the axle makes it harder to put a flat bed on the truck. Take a look at the Ford F450/550 and Dodge 4500/5500 commercial rigs and guess what they have flat frames over the rear axle also. Done for a reason. There are more of these rigs used for box and flat beds especially overseas than for MH chassis.
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