How far is too far?

If you know what you want, and that unit is few and far between.....we’ve traveled 1300 miles (one way) to look at a unit. We just called it a mini(shopping)-vacation! Over the past 20 years, from Wyoming, we’ve traveled to: Illinois, California (twice), Galveston, Tx., and Phoenix, Az

We just drove 6 hours this past Friday to pick up our new GD Imagine. There is a closer dealer but they did not have the model we wanted in stock and there was several thousand difference in price. Road trip!

went 50 miles 1st time
went 400 miles 2nd
went 400 mile again 3rd time
will go anywhere for the 4th one

If you find what you want at a price you want some distance away what does it cost to go get it? $250 per day maybe for fuel, hotel & food? The return trip is the vacation part.

We live in Tucson AZ. Ordered a Bighorn from dealer in Michigan in 2009. Ordered our next Bighorn in Las Vegas in 2017. GREAT deals and no problems with service.

Bought the Escape direct from the manufacturer in Chilliwack BC, pretty much the only way to get a molded fiberglass trailer. Most make the drive to get them but I had mine delivered 3100 miles due to work limitations. I've had no issues other then with Dometic appliances and the local mobile tech takes care of those.

We live in Southern MD and drove to the Cincinnati area to purchase our signature Cedar Creek 5ver....Immediately after our walk-thru and paperwork, we headed off to the Amish Family RV for their inspection and some pre-cautionary work.

We saved over $5K, and have piece of mind (for now) after visiting AFRV - which all work was billed to the factory.

We bought our AF about 400 miles away from home. Stayed at a local KOA for a few days to hopefully catch any defects. We did find one minor problem. The dealer came to the KOA and fixed the problem. The AF has been trouble free since, about five years.

Live in Bermuda. Bought truck and trailer private sale in TX. Far enough? Never buy new. Buy what you want wherever it is slightly used with bugs worked out & big hit in depreciation.

We traveled about 500 miles to buy our Arctic Fox, and haven't had to do anything major to it. Definitely no warranty work needed, but I have always read that Northwoods will authorize other dealers to work on the trailers because they don't have many dealers. The worst of our troubles were stripped screws.

Some of the things people get worked up about and want fixed under warranty can be fixed in less time than it takes to complain about them. This is our second Arctic Fox, because we liked our first one so much.

The majority of time I have spent working on our new 5er is making it work as seamlessly as our last one.