Starcraft AR-One TT
A good friend of mine just downsized to a StarCraft AR-One trailer. Just curious if anyone has one and has any thoughts, good or bad, he might need to hear.
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We bought a used 2006 StarCraft 2600 BH in 2009 and when we bought it there were no signs it had ever been camped in. There was no dust on the AC filter, the rims still had the factory stickers, there was plastic on the toilet, blue tape on the drawers in the fridge, and the TP holder and towel racks were still in a package in the drawer. I did a title search and found out it was a repo. Whoever bought it new only had it 3 months.
We keep it parked on a seasonal site when we’re not pulling it, so believe me, it’s gotten a lot of use. We’ve had it 5 summers and have probably spent between 70-80 nights in it each summer. The only things I’ve ever had to repair were a vent cover in the bathroom where a limb fell on it, the anode in the water heater last spring, and a plastic piece on the canopy rail that broke…that’s it. There’s not a lot of room in it because it doesn’t have a slide-out, and with the grandkids getting bigger we’ve pretty much outgrown it, which is why we’re upgrading this summer. That and we’re planning on taking a lot more extend trips.
If StarCraft had the floor plan we like I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one—entry level or not. We’ve settled on a Jay Flight 33 RLDS which a lot of people also call an entry level camper. But, what we found while shopping over the last couple years is with a lot of the campers NOT considered “entry level” you’re paying extra for what we call “foo-foo”. Polished brass plumbing fixtures, light fixtures, and handles on cabinets, “upgraded trim”, glass doors on storage compartments…that sort of thing. That stuff is nice, and I don’t mean to dog anybody’s camper if they have those amenities, but they’re just not important to us.
I’ve never had any qualms about the quality of our StarCraft. It’s held up well for all we’ve put ours through.
We keep it parked on a seasonal site when we’re not pulling it, so believe me, it’s gotten a lot of use. We’ve had it 5 summers and have probably spent between 70-80 nights in it each summer. The only things I’ve ever had to repair were a vent cover in the bathroom where a limb fell on it, the anode in the water heater last spring, and a plastic piece on the canopy rail that broke…that’s it. There’s not a lot of room in it because it doesn’t have a slide-out, and with the grandkids getting bigger we’ve pretty much outgrown it, which is why we’re upgrading this summer. That and we’re planning on taking a lot more extend trips.
If StarCraft had the floor plan we like I wouldn’t hesitate to buy another one—entry level or not. We’ve settled on a Jay Flight 33 RLDS which a lot of people also call an entry level camper. But, what we found while shopping over the last couple years is with a lot of the campers NOT considered “entry level” you’re paying extra for what we call “foo-foo”. Polished brass plumbing fixtures, light fixtures, and handles on cabinets, “upgraded trim”, glass doors on storage compartments…that sort of thing. That stuff is nice, and I don’t mean to dog anybody’s camper if they have those amenities, but they’re just not important to us.
I’ve never had any qualms about the quality of our StarCraft. It’s held up well for all we’ve put ours through.
