RV life expectancy

John & Angela wrote:
Properly maintained 25 to 30 years. You will be replacing appliances and components along the way. Possibky recovering furniture rtc. No different than a normal house.

I agree our last trailer was a run of the mill 1981 Prowler that we owned from 1982 to 2007. The only appliance I had to replace was the refer after around 15 years. I also replaced the WH at around 20 not because it was bad, but I just thought it was prudent as a preventative measure. I did completely re plumb the water system back in the 90's mainly because of leaks and it had the banned PB lines. I also replaced the water pump at the same time again mostly from a preventative standpoint and kept the old working one as a spare. We stayed in that trailer for well past 1,000 (probably closer to 2,000) nights and I did have to replace the carpet once and we had all the seats and cushions redone again around 2000 just to give it a face lift. I also towed it for over 100,000 mile and it made three coast to coast trips and traveled all over the U.S. while I was on active duty in the US NAVY. The trailer was still in great shape with no leaks, and the only reason we let it go was it went thru the HUGE Virgina Hail Storm back in 1999 and looked like a golf ball from all the dimples, but the hail did not break the skin. That trailer sit out all it's life, but did have a one piece aluminum roof so the rubber roof maintenance and replacement was not a factor and it was the standard wood frame and aluminum skin trailer. The cost to reskin it was astronomical so we bit the bullet and bought a new trailer which we have now had 7+ years. That old 81 was still in mechanical great shape and could have went another 20 years, but I like Barney am to the point of being fanatical about maintenance which is the biggest factor in longivity IMO.

Larry