Experienced TTers, can you spare a little buying advice...?
I need a new trailer.
The top contenders: The Grand Design 2150, the Keystone Outback 220urs or the Forest River Surveyor 245bhs, with dark horse runnings from the Minnie Winnie 2201ds and the Lance 1995.
It needs to be safe. It needs to take miles. It has to handle both extremely hot and extremely wet weather. It absolutely can't spend six months of the first year in the shop...Please, I don't want to have to build this thing myself.
The truck: 2014 GMC Sierra, 5.3 v8, 2x4, 3.42 ratio, camper shell.
The job: Lots of towing back and forth across south and midwest during the spring/summer; around the Pacific Northwest, the West, and the Southwest during the fall/winter. Lots of blue line highways, older RV parks, lots of rest stops. Pitted asphalt. Crumbling roads. Washouts.
I like the way the Surveyor reminds me of a Catalina sailboat - it seems like an easy choice, turn key wise. But is it as seaworthy as it appears?
So there's the Keystone Outback - okay, I flat out adore the King Bed slide out and the fold away bunks in the small (>22 ft) size.
Then, there's the Grand Design. Pricey. Yet the "warranty" issues that seem to be a glaring issue in this industry, well, they seems to be less of an issue with Grand Design.
With cost/weight roughly about the same, I'm a little dizzy and I made the mistake of spending the day looking at all these models - again - which only made it worse...short of wandering California, haunting campgrounds and making small talk, y'all are my last hope...
Looking for your educated opinions!
Thanks in advance!
The top contenders: The Grand Design 2150, the Keystone Outback 220urs or the Forest River Surveyor 245bhs, with dark horse runnings from the Minnie Winnie 2201ds and the Lance 1995.
It needs to be safe. It needs to take miles. It has to handle both extremely hot and extremely wet weather. It absolutely can't spend six months of the first year in the shop...Please, I don't want to have to build this thing myself.
The truck: 2014 GMC Sierra, 5.3 v8, 2x4, 3.42 ratio, camper shell.
The job: Lots of towing back and forth across south and midwest during the spring/summer; around the Pacific Northwest, the West, and the Southwest during the fall/winter. Lots of blue line highways, older RV parks, lots of rest stops. Pitted asphalt. Crumbling roads. Washouts.
I like the way the Surveyor reminds me of a Catalina sailboat - it seems like an easy choice, turn key wise. But is it as seaworthy as it appears?
So there's the Keystone Outback - okay, I flat out adore the King Bed slide out and the fold away bunks in the small (>22 ft) size.
Then, there's the Grand Design. Pricey. Yet the "warranty" issues that seem to be a glaring issue in this industry, well, they seems to be less of an issue with Grand Design.
With cost/weight roughly about the same, I'm a little dizzy and I made the mistake of spending the day looking at all these models - again - which only made it worse...short of wandering California, haunting campgrounds and making small talk, y'all are my last hope...
Looking for your educated opinions!
Thanks in advance!
