Highland Ridge Open Range RV 275RLS
We looked at this 2025 RV yesterday, but the only reviews we could find refer to 2022-2023 RVs. Almost every review grades 2 out of 5 stars for quality and manufacture's warranty. We can’t find any r...
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Unfortunately, reviews are often skewed. Also most RVs probably have poor reviews.
If looking at lower end models, some of the important equipment can be more lacking, like marginal axle size for weight etc.
Same goes for build quality, but that doesn’t prevent a higher end models having issues.
Personally, after having a couple quality truck campers, a mid range toy hauler and renting a few random TTs, you kinda get what you pay for. But none are immune to issues.
And while if no one bought new RVs, there would be no used ones for sale, used has a couple advantages.
aside from the obvious being cost, a great deal of issues are when the rv is new, it seems. Working out the bugs or whatever you want to call it.
Buy a clean one well kept that is relatively new and been used enough to put everything through its paces for a while, is a great option and the $ saved can pay for some repairs as a paying customer rather than getting stonewalled with warranty claims.
And if you don’t have issues, even better.
JMO.
Your advice is great, but because we like to travel long distances with an 80 pound Lab, we prefer to buy new so we can (hopefully) depend on a warranty and accessible RV services on the road. We’re really interested in this particular model, but haven’t been able to learn anything about it. Thank you for taking time to share your thoughts.
Much better to save money with a rig that's a couple years old and in good condition. Most of the teething problems have been taken care of by the first owner and the savings will typically cover any warranty work several times over. (New or Used, paying a mobile tech to spend an hour or two on an inspection can be well worth it if you aren't well versed in what to look for)
"Depend" and "warranty" do not belong in the same sentence. First they will try to avoid honoring the warranty but even worse is when they do, it's on their terms and on their schedule.
Try asking them to put a one week time limit on warranty repairs in the contract and see what they say. We've known multiple people who've lost quite literally months waiting on warranty work because there is no time limits. They will take paying customers first and when the techs have nothing else to work on, the might look at your rig. The manufacturer's pay them a lower hourly rate and heavily restrict how many hours they can charge for a particular repair and then there needs to be documentation filed to prove it as a legitimate claim. Trying to get work done at a dealer you didn't buy from...even worse.
For the most part, they are all built the same way with the same parts (often at the same factory), so don't expect big differences in quality.
Valhalla360, I appreciate your suggestion of paying a mobile rv repairman to look at the RV I’m interested in buying. We have a guy that we’ve used in the past and I plan to contact him. Thanks for the advice.
