2015 Jayco Jay Flight 28BHS Thermal and Elite Package

Jayco makes a good trailer and they carry a 2 year warranty. That is a good size freshwater tank, as to whether you should buy it is your call since it's your money. Floor plan is usually what drives someone to purchase a particular rig, if it is something you desire (along with large FW tank) and you are happy with the price, it looks like you'll be camping soon in a new Jayco. Enjoy your new bunkhouse!!!

It's a nice floorplan with room for a family. Jayco makes a good product and the 2 year warranty is a plus. I was actually looking for a Jayco when we bought the Minnie, but couldn't find a Jayco trailer that had the features we liked about the Minnie. But, we also had to pay more for the Minnie! It's a lot of trailer for the dry weight. I'd be careful about towing with a full tank of water, depending on the capacity of your tv....especially if you know you can fill the tank once you get to where you are going. That size water tank will reduce the number of trips with the blue tote!

Hope it works out for you and enjoy as many camping trips with the girls as you can. We have a lot of great memories of camping with our two boys!

My tow vehicle is a k2500 suburban.
2,305 pounds payload; 7,600lbs towing.

PAThwacker wrote:
My tow vehicle is a k2500 suburban.
2,305 pounds payload; 7,600lbs towing.

Please...don't classify me as one of the weight police!! That being said, you do realize how close you are going to be to maxing out your weight limit and/or payload capacity. When you add the optional gear to the trailer, do you have an actual dry weight of the trailer you are going to buy? If not, you want to see if that can be arranged.

Figure out how much weight that your DW and two daughters add up to, plus any gear that you carry in the tow vehicle and subtract that from your payload capacity. Then, figure your hitch weight (if 7000 lbs loaded, your looking at 700 to 1050 lbs. if figuring 10 to 15% of total weight for hitch weight).

If you are only going on short trips, you may be OK. If it were me (and I tend to be more cautious), I would be looking at something that would weigh less and allow for the gear that a family of 4 can take camping i.e. bikes and all the other stuff.

I know that with my Tundra, it would be easy to exceed the payload capacity before I would max out the 10K that it is rated to tow. Personally, I really wouldn't want to tow more the 7K with my truck with the type of long trips we take and for the fact that I want to keep the truck for quite a few years.

So, let me suggest that you proceed carefully as you don't want to end up with a trailer that is too heavy for your vehicle to handle comfortably and safely. Again...not saying your TV can't tow it...but do your homework first.

The 28bhs is a light weight stick and tin. Estimated@ 5200lb dry. 7200lb gvw.


The web unloaded weight is 4800lbs.

PAThwacker wrote:
I think I found the perfect jayco 28bhs. It has the impressive 90 gallon fresh water tank and thermal package. Perfect state park extended season camper. Should I pull the trigger?

What is the Grey water capacity. I find we fill ours quicker than running out of fresh?


Markiemark

PAThwacker wrote:
The 28bhs is a light weight stick and tin. 5200lb dry. 7500 gvw.

Yeah...you should be OK if you start at 5200 lbs. and add even 1500 lbs. for gear (which may be on the high end), you still only come up to 6,700 lbs. And, I did notice that you have the 2500 Suburban.

Do check to see if the 5200 includes all the options you're getting. I can't see where any options would make a big difference, but worth checking.

The low tow rating on my specific sub is caused by the 3.73 gear ratio. The payload is quite large. Update the gear ratio and my sub could tow 10,000lbs or more

Normally the water hogs burn through 30 gallons a day. With our 5000lb hybrid refilling fresh and dumping grey is a mid morning Saturday affair. I'd be eliminating the fw refill for sure.


I could dump sink water into black tank and leave the tote home. (Not likely)

PAThwacker wrote:
I think I found the perfect jayco 28bhs. It has the impressive 90 gallon fresh water tank and thermal package. Perfect state park extended season camper. Should I pull the trigger?

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Don't forget that 90 gallons of water will add about 745 pounds of weight to your trailer.

Also Forest River trailers & 5th wheelers have a 2nd year warranty available for $150.
Happy trails,