Motorhome / fiver comparison
We are using our new diesel pusher as I type. This is a first for us as we've always had travel trailers and fivers. I never thought I'd buy a class A. But getting older and a bad back and prodding fr...
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We’ve had 3 Class A, 2 pushers and one gas; we are now on our 2nd fiver during retirement. The steering on the “A” is a bit different than your pick-up. At first I had it back to the dealers and had them check it out. They didn’t find anything wrong with it and you will get use to it. Our fiver going down the road is just like driving a car, “MH” a little bit different. Now backing up a trailer is a whole different ball game
For us the real big difference is the ride in the “MH” is far better and we had more storage in the HM. Living space our 35’ fiver has more living space than our 42’ Holiday Rambler Imperial; reason the slides go out further. I find we need to be more aware of weight with fiver than our MH.
With the new self-leveling systems they have now for trailers hook-up and unhooking is about the same maybe a bit faster with the fiver if you are using a tow car.
We did have more maintenance on the MH’s than we have now and they cost more to both buy and fix. The better fivers are as nice inside as our last MH and far better than our first two. Today you can get a real nice new fiver for around $100,000 and a new tow truck all decked out ready to hook up with a good hitch for around $65-$70,000 a MH with the same quality will be $280-$350,000 new or higher, I’ve been out of that market for a few years.
You do have some bragging rights and when meeting another MH most of the time they always wave, not fiver. I do miss our last MH we thought we were done RVing it took us over a year to sell it and we lost a good deal of money. Than after about two years we really missed RVing so we bought our first fiver in 07.
For us the real big difference is the ride in the “MH” is far better and we had more storage in the HM. Living space our 35’ fiver has more living space than our 42’ Holiday Rambler Imperial; reason the slides go out further. I find we need to be more aware of weight with fiver than our MH.
With the new self-leveling systems they have now for trailers hook-up and unhooking is about the same maybe a bit faster with the fiver if you are using a tow car.
We did have more maintenance on the MH’s than we have now and they cost more to both buy and fix. The better fivers are as nice inside as our last MH and far better than our first two. Today you can get a real nice new fiver for around $100,000 and a new tow truck all decked out ready to hook up with a good hitch for around $65-$70,000 a MH with the same quality will be $280-$350,000 new or higher, I’ve been out of that market for a few years.
You do have some bragging rights and when meeting another MH most of the time they always wave, not fiver. I do miss our last MH we thought we were done RVing it took us over a year to sell it and we lost a good deal of money. Than after about two years we really missed RVing so we bought our first fiver in 07.
