2011 Forest River Wildwood T26bhxl?

colliehauler wrote:
Mine has ducted A/C that is more quite and cycles the fan with the A/C.

Ducted AC was near the top of my requirements list for our new trailer purchase.

I have a 05 Wildwood 26BHSS (26' bunkhouse single slide) light weight entry level trailer. Wildwood and Salem are the same. Mine has a 12' slide that opens the unit up. The slide does add a little bit of weight but worth the trade off. I bought mine used for quests at my seasonal site. I think for the money not a bad TT as long as you maintain it. I would agree with Paw paw n Gram said other then just about all RV's use the same A/C, furnace and fixtures. Mine has ducted A/C that is more quite and cycles the fan with the A/C.

PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
We owned a 2012 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 26BH - identical floor plan and specs. Purchased new in Sept 2011.

It was a nice first camper - but we learned a lot about what we liked/ didn't like.

This is a 2 season camper - not for cold weather. Likely the tanks are exposed under the bottom. We've been in ours down to 28F at night - and concerned but after disconnecting and draining the water hose - had no issues.

We got a bunk house because we though the grandkids would be with us. They were - less than 10% of the time. The bunks became holding places thinks which there was no place else to put inside the trailer.

The lack of a slide makes it tight. We were constantly bumping into each other on rainy days.

The jackknife sofa is not comfortable for sitting more than a short while. I ended up purchasing some 1/4x3x4 ft long sections of aluminum - and sliding them between the sofa springs and the fabric to provide more support.

The water heater in ours was located under the road side right at the front - stopping the under front storage from being a complete pass thru. Getting to the water heater bypass valves was a challenge that required unloading the under bed storage.

The furnace under the couch was nosier than I liked. The furnace kept things quite warm. Actually the furnace can cook you right out of the unit. Probably overkill for that many BTU for such a small space.

We had two issues.

The furnace thermostat failed on the coldest night - with a bright yellow flash. A small electric space heater kept us warm. This happened 14 months after purchase. Suburban replace the thermostat and paid for the shop which did the work.

The faucet for the sink started to leak on our third trip. Was unable to find what was the cause. Went over to Home Depot - bought a Moen - put it in. No further leaking problems. The cause which I finally figured out is that the light weight plastic sink faucet would be pulled up with normal use - and unseat - resulting in a small leak.

Biggest dis-like - the air conditioner. Ours was an all-in-one unit with the controls on the AC. While it did have a thermostatic control for when the compressor was cooling - the fan ran full time. We had to manually shut it off so we could hear the TV, talk during dinner, etc.

Second dis-like - the small size of the tub/shower. Difficult to even take a decent Navy shower.

We didn't hate it. Served us very well. Taught us a lot. Very fond memories - but it is a small entry level rig.

Thanks very much for a thorough explanation. You and many other kind folks are why RV.net is so helpful.

We owned a 2012 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 26BH - identical floor plan and specs. Purchased new in Sept 2011.

It was a nice first camper - but we learned a lot about what we liked/ didn't like.

This is a 2 season camper - not for cold weather. Likely the tanks are exposed under the bottom. We've been in ours down to 28F at night - and concerned but after disconnecting and draining the water hose - had no issues.

We got a bunk house because we though the grandkids would be with us. They were - less than 10% of the time. The bunks became holding places thinks which there was no place else to put inside the trailer.

The lack of a slide makes it tight. We were constantly bumping into each other on rainy days.

The jackknife sofa is not comfortable for sitting more than a short while. I ended up purchasing some 1/4x3x4 ft long sections of aluminum - and sliding them between the sofa springs and the fabric to provide more support.

The water heater in ours was located under the road side right at the front - stopping the under front storage from being a complete pass thru. Getting to the water heater bypass valves was a challenge that required unloading the under bed storage.

The furnace under the couch was nosier than I liked. The furnace kept things quite warm. Actually the furnace can cook you right out of the unit. Probably overkill for that many BTU for such a small space.

We had two issues.

The furnace thermostat failed on the coldest night - with a bright yellow flash. A small electric space heater kept us warm. This happened 14 months after purchase. Suburban replace the thermostat and paid for the shop which did the work.

The faucet for the sink started to leak on our third trip. Was unable to find what was the cause. Went over to Home Depot - bought a Moen - put it in. No further leaking problems. The cause which I finally figured out is that the light weight plastic sink faucet would be pulled up with normal use - and unseat - resulting in a small leak.

Biggest dis-like - the air conditioner. Ours was an all-in-one unit with the controls on the AC. While it did have a thermostatic control for when the compressor was cooling - the fan ran full time. We had to manually shut it off so we could hear the TV, talk during dinner, etc.

Second dis-like - the small size of the tub/shower. Difficult to even take a decent Navy shower.

We didn't hate it. Served us very well. Taught us a lot. Very fond memories - but it is a small entry level rig.