"Don't Buy New"
I notice a lot of you say not to buy a brand new rv unit. I'm "assuming" this is because it takes a while to shake all the right-out-of-the-factory bugs out of it and locate all the problems associat...
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wbwood wrote:davosfam wrote:
We bought used for our first five trailers (tent, egg and three TT). When we decided to purchase a "keeper", we bought new. We looked at several used FW and they all smelled like a nursing home or perfume. We were told to just let it air out. Couldn't do it so we bought new. Our FW stays on our lot, will have a cover over it and is not towed from place to place. Should last a couple decades in that case.
In about 10 years when we are ready to start traveling around the country, we plan on buying a mid-sized TT. If we can't find what we want used, we will buy new again.
This reminded that I actually fibbed in my previous posting. We did buy a used pop up a couple years ago. we were going to use it locally and keep the TT we had at the beach and use it there. The previous owners of the pop up stored it with a lot of moth balls inside. We "aired it out" for days. Removed all instances of moth balls. Removed all the fabric items we could and washed them, but it still smelled like moth balls. Had it for a few weeks. Never used it. traded it in with the TT on our motorhome.
But every used unit on the dealerships lots smelled really bad. One reason we will not hardly cook inside ours. It's obvious that others did cook extensively in theirs. Wasn't a smell that you could just air out either.
We cook in ours. The FWs we looked at didn't stink of food smells. They smelled like a nursing home or perfume. If all they needed was to be aired out, why don't they do that before they sell it? We were very discouraged and decided to up our budget and get a new one. When we purchased used TT in the past, we only worried about leaks, soft spots, etc. None of them ever had bad smells like the used FWs we looked at did.
