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anaro
Sep 17, 2013Explorer
Buying a TT can be overwhelming. Understand every brand makes good trailers and every brand (even the $100,000 5ers) make lemons. The best you can do is find the Floorplan that you like best and is well within your weight requirements. (remember do not shop by dry weight as you will never tow a dry or unloaded TT). Once you have a good understanding of your weight restrictions (see anyone of a thousand what can I tow posts for how to figure this out correctly) then think about your usage. How do you want to camp? ie rv park w/ fhu, state park w/ partial hook ups (w/e only) or boondocking w/ no hookups? This will affect need for larger fresh, grey and black tanks. it can also affect the size of TT you want. Next think about what you like/want in a Floorplan (ie rear living, bunkhouse, rear kitchen. etc).now go sit in these trailers and imagine your use and where you will put things (ie dishes in this cabinet, moms clothes in that cabinet, toys in that drawer, outside chairs in pass thru etc). Act out your daily activities (ie mom cooks, dad walks to bathroom, watches TV, kids play etc. Don't forget about possibly tripping over pets). As you run through these things create a spreadsheet with things that are important to you (ie L shaped kitchen counter, walk around queen etc) across the top and makes/models down the side. Doing this really decreases your options to a few TT that you can check out better. Going to an rv show puts a lot of TT in front of you with little traveling/dealing with salesman. Just take notes as they will all run together after awhile.
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