How long have you had your current RV?

Our current trailer is now 14 years old and still works and looks just about as good as it did when new. It has never leaked and has had the air conditioner replaced two years ago.

It still looks great but has done its' last road trip after many years of snowbirding and summer travels. It now sits permanently for use as our summer place as we have given up traveling via RV.

I think just about any RV made today can be used hard but made to last a long time if given enough tender, loving care. :)
Barney

Tent camped for 6-7 years but I towed a utility trailer with all our junk in it.


Had a small travel trailer (named it the Silver Bullet due to my brushed on paint job), used that for about 2 years.


My current motorhome is a 1996 Vogue, we have owned it since 2002 and no plans of trading any time soon.

First- 1 day - tent Put it up a big storm rolled in that evening and destroyed it.
Second- 5 years - a pop up
Third- 5 years - a HTT
fourth- 10 years - Class A.

If we had not lost the first one to a blowover it would be 12 years. We did replace the lost one with same model. Going strong with over 100,000 miles on it.

1st and current TT 14 months. bought it new last year. 33ft rear kitchen non-bunkhouse model that works well for wife and i plus 4 small dogs.

i've done some mods to it with furniture changes etc to make it work better for us.

no plans to sell it or get any other rv barring unforeseen circumstances. we are completely happy with it.

we use it 12 months a year. weekend warriors.

Current: Cedar Creek-5 years

Previous: Cardinal-10 years


Previous: Jayco-3 years



C.B.

I have a 1989 Dodge XPLORER RV Class B - Purchased 10/15/10

Fiance' purchased a Class C 2002 Dynamax Carri-go on 5/1/15

Jayco-noslide wrote:
It's good to be pretty sure you want and like what you get or that you will decide to like it for awhile.

This is so true. When we first started, in 2011, we very intentionally bought a trailer that was relatively low budget and easily towed by the Explorer we had at the time. We had never camped before (except for one weekend in a pop-up loaned to us by a friend). Before making a large investment, we needed to 1) Make sure we truly felt camping was for us, and 2) Make sure we knew what we wanted in a long-term purchased.

We used that first trailer for 2 seasons and traded it, 18 months after we purchased it, for what we owed on it (which was our plan). Essentially, we spent $2,500 to rent an RV for 2 seasons before spending $40-$50k on a larger tow vehicle and trailer. 6 years in to a used Suburban 2500 and a new Rockwood 8312SS, we have no intention of moving away from either for a number of years ahead. In the camping realm, it's the best decision we ever made.

Doesn't seem like the average is 2.5 years on this forum. But I suspect a lot of youngsters buy RVs without a clue if they will really like it or not. Maybe even a few seniors.

4 in the last 10 years, trading up until we got what we wanted. This one, we will keep. Sometimes if you have a specific application, it takes a little while to get situated on the needs and wants. I have camped in a camper most of my life, I bought a new 38 ft fiver in 08, kept it until 2012 and decided to go toy hauler, built one, sold it.. bought one and spent too much time on the road for the space we had and then got this one.