I need some help!!! (deciding on a rv)
Ok so my family and I are taking our first rv trip this summer and we are trying to find an rv to purchase. We thought about renting but the prices we are seeing are in the 5000 plus range and then e...
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Here are my thoughts off hand, buy something built after about 2001 both the Chevy and Ford engines and transmissions made considerable improvements in the late 90's through about 2001 and then remained mostly unchanged with only incremental improvements for the next 5 or 6 years. Buy it soon and take it on a few shake down trips before the big trip. I bought my first class A motorhome about 4 months ago from a private party in Florida, over a thousand miles away and immediately drove it home. Overall it was in good condition for its age (a 2002 Safari Trek), with the previous owner spending nearly $10,000 on parts alone for it in the last 2 years,however there were a few little annoyances that looking back I wished I had taken a day or so to address that added a fair amount of stress to the drive home. The two big ones were the mount on the passenger side mirror was loose causing it to shake so much as to be nearly useless at highway speed and secondly the high beam headlight switch did not work. Over the last few months I have addressed a number of other little issues that I have found that could cause no end of headaches on the road as well as fixing a few gaps in the previous owners upgrades, such as replacing the factory original shock absorbers, or numerous small electrical issues, like needing new sockets and LED bulbs on almost every marker and turn signal light due to corrosion, which is odd given the lack of corrosion elsewhere on the chassis.
Ike
p.s.that headlight high beam switch problem from the initial retrieval drive was caused by a loose wiring connector stuck behind the lever arm, a 10 second fix once it was found.
p.p.s. toedtoes I assume he is not talking about buying a $7,000 motorhome, but instead buying one that he would only take less than a $7,000 hit on if he were to sell it after the trip.
On that topic, I paid $20,500 for my Trek 4 months ago, it had lots of recent updates, so I was willing to pay $4,000 or so above typical prices I had seen for other good looking similar age Trek's even so I have spent over $3,500 on fixing up mostly little things, with the biggest single ticket item being $650 for shocks.
Ike
p.s.that headlight high beam switch problem from the initial retrieval drive was caused by a loose wiring connector stuck behind the lever arm, a 10 second fix once it was found.
p.p.s. toedtoes I assume he is not talking about buying a $7,000 motorhome, but instead buying one that he would only take less than a $7,000 hit on if he were to sell it after the trip.
On that topic, I paid $20,500 for my Trek 4 months ago, it had lots of recent updates, so I was willing to pay $4,000 or so above typical prices I had seen for other good looking similar age Trek's even so I have spent over $3,500 on fixing up mostly little things, with the biggest single ticket item being $650 for shocks.
