Best ways to purchase a used RV?
Hi there! After going back and forth about our various options for months, my husband and I have a rough plan in place and we've started saving money! We are heavily leaning towards a small class C. I...
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At least the local RV show here is very, very much geared towards new buyers, more of a showcase of the local dealers than anything. I'm not sure there were any used units the last time I went. There was also a very large majority of towables vs. motorhomes, perhaps a hundered of the former and a half dozen of the latter all told.
Attending an RV show is a nice way of seeing, at least in a general way, what all is available (at least of the types of units they have on display) and what sorts of features are sensible and what ones make you immediately scratch your head. If looking to buy new, they can at least sometimes have good deals; that's probably more true the larger the show and the farther away the dealers come to it.
I would suggest having a relatively open mind towards units. Driving down the road, a longer RV is very little different handling than a shorter one. I'm much more conscious of the eight foot plus width of my class C than the 32' length of it. Do also bear in mind that your small children will not stay this small for too much longer. (Length does, of course, make a difference when maneuvering in tight places or trying to fit into small camp sites. Somewhere around 18' or so there's a jump from fitting into a single parking space to needing two end-to-end if you're not towing, but once you need to find the double space another five or ten or so feet doesn't make that much harder.)
Attending an RV show is a nice way of seeing, at least in a general way, what all is available (at least of the types of units they have on display) and what sorts of features are sensible and what ones make you immediately scratch your head. If looking to buy new, they can at least sometimes have good deals; that's probably more true the larger the show and the farther away the dealers come to it.
I would suggest having a relatively open mind towards units. Driving down the road, a longer RV is very little different handling than a shorter one. I'm much more conscious of the eight foot plus width of my class C than the 32' length of it. Do also bear in mind that your small children will not stay this small for too much longer. (Length does, of course, make a difference when maneuvering in tight places or trying to fit into small camp sites. Somewhere around 18' or so there's a jump from fitting into a single parking space to needing two end-to-end if you're not towing, but once you need to find the double space another five or ten or so feet doesn't make that much harder.)
