I bought a 2017...but its actually a 2016
Late July 2016 I bought a 2017 Grand Design Imagine 2800bh. The dealer at the time had only 2017 models on the lot, 2016’s were gone and only 2016 literature was available. 90 days after my purc...
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If for any reason you decide to trade it in at a dealer and buy a new RV, you *might* find the dealer making you an offer based on the year from the VIN using Blue Book pricing. Then you would be losing the difference between a 2016 and 2017. That *might* be something that could hold up in court. Might also be an issue it were written off by an insurer after an accident and they used the year on the VIN for valuation? There's no odometer on towable RVs either. RVs have high depreciation once it leaves a dealer.
There might be generic info. on a paper brochure but there could be year-specific info. on their website. KZ does and their models can have small to large differences year to year. We know 100 percent for sure what year ours is by the website specs and changes for the model year. There's also a manufacturers fine print that says design details are subject to change at their discretion at any time to suit their needs that might come into play.
I tend to agree with the OP and would be ticked if we signed a purchase agreement for a 2017 model and it came in as a 2016. I would hazard a guess that almost all buyers would never even think to check the VIN and that dealers and manufacturers get away with it lots.
We bought a new TT in 2011 at an end of the season blowout price and it was a previous year's model that was unsold. About a year later we decided to buy a new TT and tried at first to do a trade-in at the dealer. They pulled out their Blue Book and based an offer on the actual production year and it was a BIG drop in $$. The dealer didn't even care about the couple of thousand $$ or so we spent on mods & upgrades. All that mattered was the Blue Book value. We ended up selling it privately for more but still lost a lot compared to the purchase price and mods. We knew it was an older model year but had no knowledge about BB values.
I have a 1958 vintage car that was sold as a 1959 per the title. That was common practice back then. It's easy to correct that here at an insurance agent.
There might be generic info. on a paper brochure but there could be year-specific info. on their website. KZ does and their models can have small to large differences year to year. We know 100 percent for sure what year ours is by the website specs and changes for the model year. There's also a manufacturers fine print that says design details are subject to change at their discretion at any time to suit their needs that might come into play.
I tend to agree with the OP and would be ticked if we signed a purchase agreement for a 2017 model and it came in as a 2016. I would hazard a guess that almost all buyers would never even think to check the VIN and that dealers and manufacturers get away with it lots.
We bought a new TT in 2011 at an end of the season blowout price and it was a previous year's model that was unsold. About a year later we decided to buy a new TT and tried at first to do a trade-in at the dealer. They pulled out their Blue Book and based an offer on the actual production year and it was a BIG drop in $$. The dealer didn't even care about the couple of thousand $$ or so we spent on mods & upgrades. All that mattered was the Blue Book value. We ended up selling it privately for more but still lost a lot compared to the purchase price and mods. We knew it was an older model year but had no knowledge about BB values.
I have a 1958 vintage car that was sold as a 1959 per the title. That was common practice back then. It's easy to correct that here at an insurance agent.
