Lots of good comments above. Also look at how you use the rig and how many miles a year do you put on it a year. One fifth wheel we owned in Alaska, we pulled it for three or four years and then bought a river front lot on the Kenai river. So we decided to set it up semi permanently as a fish camp. So the age didn't really matter as we liked the floor plan, kept the roof seams caulked, etc. for several more years. When we sold the property, a dozen years later, we threw in the 5th wheel with the sale of the land.
I tend to keep RVs for as long as we still enjoy using them and still trust them mechanically, out on the roads. Doesn't matter what class of RV it is. We have changed types of RVs more due to changes in our lives than any other reasons. We owned a large Class A at the time our daughters started to college and it was just my wife and I traveling. It no longer fit our needs, so we sold it and bought a smaller rig, for our travels.
So we have no real set measure on when to buy or sell, like I do with our trucks and cars. I keep those till the general costs to bring it back up to new standards is equal to the book value. Our last Dodge Cummins truck needed about $10K in work, new paint, overhauled tranny, new seats, AC work, etc. and the book value was $10K so I traded it in on the current Chevy I now drive. I have done the same thing with private airplanes, in the past.
Prior to living here in the swamps of southern Florida, we lived in Ouray Colorado and did much of our camping in Colorado. Now that we live in south Florida, we still do much of our camping in western Colorado. So road worthiness is more of a concern to us now than it was when we lived there. A three hundred mile trip was a long one for us. Now we put 5,000 miles on our RV to camp in the same places.
joe b.
Stuart Florida
Formerly of Colorado and Alaska
2016 Fleetwood Flair 31 B Class A w/bunks
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