pnichols wrote:
Desert Captain,
Your Nexus 23P is a sweet little rig! It's floorplan is very similar to our 24 foot Itasca Spirit's floorplan. Does the dinette make into another bed?
I like that HUGE furnace capacity you have ... I believe it's around 35,000 BTUs, which is very generous for a 24 footer. With it's heated tanks, you should be nicely set up for cold weather camping.
How did you wind up with a Generac instead of an Onan? I also see that you stayed with the E350 chassis instead of the E450 ... you probably have a bit softer ride in the back of the coach than we do.
I'm curious ... where and how did they mount a 26 inch TV in the 23P? I've scratched my head many times trying to figure out where to put a 26 incher in ours such that it would be both out of the way when traveling but nicely viewable when camped. We do have an overhead queen bed - I guess the 23P maybe doesn't - so the TV is up there?
We take ours everywhere ... offroad too ... including such places as into the middle of nowhere 25 miles North of Plush, OR. FWIW, our Wilson rooftop antenna and amplifier got us onto the Internet way out there!
Enjoy your small C!
We could not be more pleased and having put over 6,000 miles on her in the last couple of months I doubt that there any surprises in our future. We found this gem used, with only 6,205 miles, a mere 8.8 hours on the genny right here in Tucson at La Mesa RV.... for $47K. :B I think the original owners lusted for something larger and reportedly moved up to a 36' Class A. I was ready to fly to Elkhart Indiana to pick up a new one but could not pass this by.
Nexus has switched to the Onan Cummings allegedly due to greater access to parts. The Generac would not have been my first choice but has performed flawlessly and is so quiet my Honda 2000 hasn't seen any back up work. Sure is nice to just push a button and have 4Kw purring.
The furnace is beast, yep, 35,000 BTU's, but up in Idaho, Wyoming and Utah in late September it kept us nice and toasty even in temps down into the upper 20's. Haven't needed to run the tank heater but as winter approaches I am sure it will get some work.
The E-350 Chassis is a nice ride and with 3,368# of payload on a GVWR of 12,500# we will never run out of capacity. Weighed it once up in Oregon with one third of grey, black, fresh and fuel in each of the tanks, firewood and the backup Honda and we came in at 10,050#. The 55 gallon fuel tank was a pleasant surprise, LMRV told me it was only 40. this gives us 500 miles of range with a 50 mile cushion.
While I doubt we will ever use it the dinette makes a nice size double bed, the faux leather (they call it "Pleather"), is buttery soft and supple, hmmm, maybe I should make that in to a playpen sometime (but I digress) :W The cabover bunk is 8' long and 58" wide, we use it primarily for a TV lounge, reading, napping and the infrequent guest(s). The 26" Vizio is located in the upper right of the pic, a little hard to see and the DVD player is in the glass fronted cabinet immediately to the right. The mount swings out and it can be viewed from the cabover, dinette or the full size queen in the rear left corner.
Dirt roads cause me little concern as long as I can squeeze this tall boy through the trees without moving too many leaves. It came with Michelin LTX M/S 2's (which I was very happy to run on my last truck), so I can scratch tires off my "what if " list. We travel with two I-Phones and a Tablet all tied into the same Share plan so anywhere we have a Verizon cell signal (almost everywhere), we have the internet.
The rig is fueled up and out front as tomorrow I am taking my visiting BIL up to the Superstition Mountain to Lost Dutchman SP after the obligatory bowl of Chile at Tortilla Flats. Have reservations at Roper Lake for the weekend after next and for Zion for the entire Thanksgiving week. Now if I can just figure out where to go in december..... :S
