Buying RV from a far away dealer
Just curious about others experience about buying an RV far away from your home and your local dealers. I'm going to buy a small new 5th wheel and in the Tampa area about the best I can do is around 2...
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Some local dealers flat out won't do warranty work on rigs they didn't sell, other dealers may but will place you behind those customers that purchased from them. To avoid that issue you can deal directly with manufacturer to see if they will allow a mobile tech to come out. We only had minor issues and after I sent a few pictures to the dealer they would order the parts and I would pick them up and do the work myself.
This was a family owned dealership in business for over 30 years, they were not so uptight as these huge mega RV dealers, in fact there was zero upsell after I told them we just want the out the door price for the rig alone. It just pays to be handy with tools anyway when owning an RV, you don't have to wait for weeks where most times battery is dead as a doornail upon pickup, and the work is usually substandard to boot.
This was a family owned dealership in business for over 30 years, they were not so uptight as these huge mega RV dealers, in fact there was zero upsell after I told them we just want the out the door price for the rig alone. It just pays to be handy with tools anyway when owning an RV, you don't have to wait for weeks where most times battery is dead as a doornail upon pickup, and the work is usually substandard to boot.
