Not a current model - should I care?
How important is it to get a model that is still being made. For example I saw a Fleetwood Caribou but could find little information about it since Fleetwood only keeps manuals for their travel tra...
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Don't think that because a model is currently in production that you will get better support from the manufacturer as it is not going to happen. Are you really going to drive it back to the factory for a defect to be corrected?
The parts that matter are those in the furnace, fridge, stove, hot water tank, etc. and these do not change from one year or model to the next and you will be getting parts from the manufacturer or through a service center (as with Norcold refrigerators). Whenever a part has broken on my Lance the help I got from their people was zero, and tough luck but it was my problem to find a way to fix the matter.
The advantage of a older model is that if it is not broken now it probably has either been free of defects or the prior owner(s) fixed them for you.
New models may have new features like a slide-out or factory installed solar panel but they are also likely to have new points of failure that it will be up to their customers to find out about and then have to fix themselves.
You can also save a great deal of money. We bought a 3 year old Lance 845 for $12,000 that the original owner had bought for over $17,000 and the replacement model, the Lance 855, was selling for over $25,000. We saved at least $13,000 in hard cash.
The parts that matter are those in the furnace, fridge, stove, hot water tank, etc. and these do not change from one year or model to the next and you will be getting parts from the manufacturer or through a service center (as with Norcold refrigerators). Whenever a part has broken on my Lance the help I got from their people was zero, and tough luck but it was my problem to find a way to fix the matter.
The advantage of a older model is that if it is not broken now it probably has either been free of defects or the prior owner(s) fixed them for you.
New models may have new features like a slide-out or factory installed solar panel but they are also likely to have new points of failure that it will be up to their customers to find out about and then have to fix themselves.
You can also save a great deal of money. We bought a 3 year old Lance 845 for $12,000 that the original owner had bought for over $17,000 and the replacement model, the Lance 855, was selling for over $25,000. We saved at least $13,000 in hard cash.
