My research is running me in circles!
Hi all, I'm new to the RV life. My husband and I are looking to buy our first RV and we basically have 3 options. We can buy a newish (~10 years) class C, an older class A to renovated, or convert a s...
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School bus will cost a small fortune to build into a nice RV, as cabinetry and everything will have to be fabricated from scratch. If you don't have lots of mechanical skills, a shop to work in, a woodworking shop, forget a decent bus conversion. If you plan on putting that kind of work into a bus, do it with a decent over the road bus such as a '60's GM (go HERE for a good example of a GM bus conversion in use.)
If this is part time travel, get a class C and go see the world and quit worrying about the what if's. I have had a couple of friends that used to analyse everything to the n'th degree. They ended up buying obsolete computers because by the time they acquired all the data, reviews and such, new and better models were out, but they bought an old one because the new ones "might be questionable". I had a friend who shopped prices for his airplanes parts even down to whether the company had a 800 phone number to call (pre cell phone days) and he sometimes made bad choices after being warned to not deal with a certain company..... as noted, analysis paralysis is a disease and you need to let it go.
I knew one thing, I wanted a C class and I wanted something that didn't get single digit fuel mileage, so the requirement was a Sprinter chassis. If I had analysed it I would have never bought, because the Mercedes is so quirky it will scare you off, now I have this '07 View on a '06 chassis and have spent the winter doing upgrades and reliability improvements so I can have a trouble free summer (I hope).
Charles
If this is part time travel, get a class C and go see the world and quit worrying about the what if's. I have had a couple of friends that used to analyse everything to the n'th degree. They ended up buying obsolete computers because by the time they acquired all the data, reviews and such, new and better models were out, but they bought an old one because the new ones "might be questionable". I had a friend who shopped prices for his airplanes parts even down to whether the company had a 800 phone number to call (pre cell phone days) and he sometimes made bad choices after being warned to not deal with a certain company..... as noted, analysis paralysis is a disease and you need to let it go.
I knew one thing, I wanted a C class and I wanted something that didn't get single digit fuel mileage, so the requirement was a Sprinter chassis. If I had analysed it I would have never bought, because the Mercedes is so quirky it will scare you off, now I have this '07 View on a '06 chassis and have spent the winter doing upgrades and reliability improvements so I can have a trouble free summer (I hope).
Charles
