the hunt begins
well I recived royal assention from the wife to oficial upgrade the old slumberqueen. so now the hunt begins. We have decided on the Adventurer 901sb, in her eyes because fo the kitchen layout, and...
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Oh yah that’ll be a nice unit! And you’re handy enough to add anything you may want or need later. Assume they come pre-wired for A/C though? That could be a real world challenge.
Ha, I remember the par years. Worked for a Canadian company for many years with company offered stock, so the exchange rate has been a huge deal for us forever and still is.
I dunno how that all works but I’d love to see the two currencies much closer to par, for personal gain!
I think the prices of TCs is so high due to (small by comparison) volume, obviously more labor to assemble than a typical trailer, but mostly because it’s what the market will bear.
IMO any additional engineering effort was many moons ago. And that cost was passed along, a long time ago.
Transportation from the factory? Eh maybe more expensive but you can load 3 TCs on a semi step deck or even a long hot shot trailer. Vs 3 separate pickups to haul 3 trailers.
TCs for the most part haven’t changed a bit. Look at your newish Adventurer for example. Same configuration and exact same shape “box” as a whole host of brands, including Host lol, for the last 25+ years.
Icbw but the only significant engineering changes in that time are going from wood frame to aluminum on many models. And the arched roof on AFs which is a minimal engineering effort and not a lot of tooling. Bend some tubing, the rest is the same.
Other “things” that are newer or different amenities are th same across the board trailer’s included.
I wasn’t around in the early decades of TCs to know how the prices compared to trailers but I firmly believe the a majority of the price difference is simply what people will pay.
ya I have always thought our two curencies should be tied togeather. I view the US and Canada as two countries that were founded by the same people and only differed in the type of goverment they setup. I have at least 10 distant relitives that fought in the civil war and eventualy the families wandered up to Canada. so me of my relitives came here briefly left a sibling then went back to the US.
then you have all the buisness movment back and forth accross the boarder that benifits all of us. if we were always ties togetather pricing would be more stable. heck I bought my harley when we were almost par (98.9) I bought my harley. now that we are at 72 cents I could probably sell it for a killing because the used harley prices ate tied to the US buck
I have seen a few advancments, the hydronic heat and hot water systems, I wish every camper would have moved to that. artic fox went to that curved roof as it was the only way they could make a block of foam strong enough to be self suporting, but I think they dropped the ball when they made it so thin along the edges and reduced the r-value. frames ya alumium was a good move. adventurer takes it one further and puts wood inside the alumium for more screw bite which I kinda like. I was unsure about it at first but now I think it was a pretty smart idea. truck campers have always been expensive for what they are, but there is no way in heck that any truck camper should cost more than a 40 foot 5th wheel haha
