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travelnman
Feb 07, 2018Explorer
Most on here seem to look at things with quality in mind cause labor rates to fix things are ballistic these days. Then there is the parts problem, it seems like no one stocks RV parts. I could not get two hinges for a toilet seat or even a new seat. They wanted to install a new toilet for about $300 and they go higher, I finally went to Menards and got a match for $18.00 but this shows you the trouble with older RV's even new ones are hard to get parts for. Getting someone to work on a RV during the summer is impossible, they are busy prepping new ones and really don't want to be bothered with fixing older ones. That's my experience. If you buy new or used look for a large fresh water holding tank, if the tank is small your going to be hauling water from the source all day every day. Mine is sixty gallons and seems good for two people for a week even some left over. New trailers have small tanks because of gov weight limits recently pushed on us. Some people go down the road with full tanks and are thus over the weight limit for their tow vehicle and maybe the axels on the RV for those very few the manufactures have new limits put on them. I have seen some really nice RVs sleep six to eight with 35gal fresh water tanks In this case I would take a hand truck cause you will be hauling water every day unless of course you have city water hookup.
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