New to Travel Trailers: Looking for Opinions
All, I'm new to TTs and to this forum so please bear with me if I ask any too dumb of a question.. My wife and I have been looking to buy a TT to go camping with our twin toddlers and two cats. ...
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That's what I was thinking Need-A-Vacation, look at the use of it and places you intend to park it as use it.
Its a big TT, my daughter has the same floorplan in a Prime Time Avenger. You need a lot of pivot room to back it into spaces, especially using a long wheelbase truck. It's a lot easier to use this on a seasonal site or at RV parks with pull through sites but that tends to get expensive.
Pulling it into gas stations to refuel the truck can also be a chore. Installing a large in-bed fuel tank would help with that. Only diesels can have automatic gravity flow, gasoline needs to have a pump. You still have to stop, to pump the gasoline into the truck. ( Transfer tanks )
As said, I would question the quality at that price of a new unit.
There are bunk model floorplans on the market that are shorter than the one here and better quality.
The more slide-outs you have, it involves more parts and motors. Also the weight of large slides can be a chore to manually retract if you have to do that at the time of a component failure. I question the quality of those components at that price.
Personally, if I could find a TT that builds the foundation first, on top of their own manufactured frame , then adds the water and holding tanks on top of that base, that would make better sense to me.
Outdoors RV and maybe Arctic Fox might build them that way, not really sure. Hopefully, someone who owns one of those units will chime in. If not, I'm sure youtube has a factory tour of the build process on line.
Having the water and holding tanks supported by a solid floor makes the most sense IMO. It also allows the tanks as well as water lines to be easily insulated and heated and not exposed to extend your colder weather RV'ing.
Again, its build quality, you can read posts here regarding water tanks falling out of trailers. ( This industry tends to cheap out. Some mfg.'s do not even bother using chewing gum and string to hold them in place ). I would think a better built RV will hold its value a little better to offset the initial higher cost.
Its a big TT, my daughter has the same floorplan in a Prime Time Avenger. You need a lot of pivot room to back it into spaces, especially using a long wheelbase truck. It's a lot easier to use this on a seasonal site or at RV parks with pull through sites but that tends to get expensive.
Pulling it into gas stations to refuel the truck can also be a chore. Installing a large in-bed fuel tank would help with that. Only diesels can have automatic gravity flow, gasoline needs to have a pump. You still have to stop, to pump the gasoline into the truck. ( Transfer tanks )
As said, I would question the quality at that price of a new unit.
There are bunk model floorplans on the market that are shorter than the one here and better quality.
The more slide-outs you have, it involves more parts and motors. Also the weight of large slides can be a chore to manually retract if you have to do that at the time of a component failure. I question the quality of those components at that price.
Personally, if I could find a TT that builds the foundation first, on top of their own manufactured frame , then adds the water and holding tanks on top of that base, that would make better sense to me.
Outdoors RV and maybe Arctic Fox might build them that way, not really sure. Hopefully, someone who owns one of those units will chime in. If not, I'm sure youtube has a factory tour of the build process on line.
Having the water and holding tanks supported by a solid floor makes the most sense IMO. It also allows the tanks as well as water lines to be easily insulated and heated and not exposed to extend your colder weather RV'ing.
Again, its build quality, you can read posts here regarding water tanks falling out of trailers. ( This industry tends to cheap out. Some mfg.'s do not even bother using chewing gum and string to hold them in place ). I would think a better built RV will hold its value a little better to offset the initial higher cost.
