jplante4 wrote:
spoon059 wrote:
If it were me I would take it to a trusted shop (kinda hard from 500 miles away) and pay an hourly rate to have a trusted mechanic inspect it.
And more often than not, this is the problem. You see a coach on RVT or RVTrader, it looks nice, but it's a round trip plane ride and a night in a hotel to just look at it. If you could find a third party to just go look at it and say if it's worth pursuing, there's some value in that. I know there are a few RV.net members that live close to PPL and have volunteered to do just that. No one asked for a guarantee from them.
We have a similar problem buying airplanes. You really need to do a pre-buy inspection to make sure, among other things, that the plane is airworthy. So you arrange with a local (to the plane) A&P mechanic to look at it, or pay for your A&P to travel to where the plane is. The consequences of not doing this are huge financially. No one asks for a guarantee. It's assumed that the certification of aircraft mechanics is guarantee enough.
My thoughts exactly. That's 2 days hard driving by myself, 2 nights in a hotel, meals for 2.5-3 days. Can't do it for $500. I am mainly concerned about the mechanical aspects--engine, tranny, and major appliances, in the RV. This does have a slide & I am concerned about potential leaks/problems there. I understand it's likely to need minor repairs, and a carpet/upholstery cleaning. I just don't want a bad tranny or blown engine up front.
This is a small motorhome on a Chevy chassis, it's what I would like to have.
