Help for choosing new 5th wheel
We travel 6 weeks every summer with our teenage daughters, dog and cat to our National Parks and Historical sites. We do a little weekend camping other weekends. We have a 2012 Keystone Outback ...
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We have been looking around for when we retire and I am planning on budgeting in a 3500 Ram as part of the package but am interested in roughly the same weight and around 31 foot length.
We were looking at a Puma 286RBSS. http://palominorv.com/product-details.aspx?LineID=362&Image=15363&ModelID=3127#Main The unloaded vehicle weight is 7424 lbs and a 1240 lb hitch weight (Remember, it will be hundreds more loaded) and is under 31 feet.
It has the outdoor kitchen and bunks and a big u shaped dinette and a decent couch across from the entertainment center with storage underneath. We saw one new for 27,300 at our dealer D and D RV in Helena MT (we have no sales tax either). We are fortunate to have a very good dealer imho. The one negative per your requirements is that it has one door. But at that price, I can upgrade my tow vehicle and be into a set up including a new Ram 3500 for 70 to 75K at retirement and be set to go for a few years.
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Of interest from our dealer here in MT is that they told Puma to take the induction stove out of the outdoor kitchen and replaced it with a drawer and storage where it was (middle version of outdoor kitchen)and a cutting board. They noted, that the manufacturers have used some of their ideas over the years. As the salesman noted. the induction stove is stupid for dry camping (this is Montana)and if you want one, go buy it for forty bucks at Target. They put a swing around gas BBQ on the bumper for outdoor cooking. This is a nice set up all in all and at 27K, new seems like a steal. We saw a Forest River similar for 38K. Can't really see an 11K difference in quality.
We were looking at a Puma 286RBSS. http://palominorv.com/product-details.aspx?LineID=362&Image=15363&ModelID=3127#Main The unloaded vehicle weight is 7424 lbs and a 1240 lb hitch weight (Remember, it will be hundreds more loaded) and is under 31 feet.
It has the outdoor kitchen and bunks and a big u shaped dinette and a decent couch across from the entertainment center with storage underneath. We saw one new for 27,300 at our dealer D and D RV in Helena MT (we have no sales tax either). We are fortunate to have a very good dealer imho. The one negative per your requirements is that it has one door. But at that price, I can upgrade my tow vehicle and be into a set up including a new Ram 3500 for 70 to 75K at retirement and be set to go for a few years.
Aside
Of interest from our dealer here in MT is that they told Puma to take the induction stove out of the outdoor kitchen and replaced it with a drawer and storage where it was (middle version of outdoor kitchen)and a cutting board. They noted, that the manufacturers have used some of their ideas over the years. As the salesman noted. the induction stove is stupid for dry camping (this is Montana)and if you want one, go buy it for forty bucks at Target. They put a swing around gas BBQ on the bumper for outdoor cooking. This is a nice set up all in all and at 27K, new seems like a steal. We saw a Forest River similar for 38K. Can't really see an 11K difference in quality.
