Looking at buying a Weekend Warrior????

The current "owner" of the name Weekend Warrior, The RV Factory, has nothing whatsoever to do with Mark Warmoth who was the founder and original builder of Weekend Warrior. Mark now own Extreme Warrior. RV factory bought the name rights, beyond that they are not the same RVs.

Welcome to the forums! I'd highly recommend spending some time and reading through various posts, you'll begin to get some idea of common issues and some of the more popular brands that are discussed. Quality is highly subjective, and changes over the years. What was a great product a couple years ago might have issues today. You'll want to do some inspection of your RV when you get close to buying, the key is to do your own PDI (we have help on those) before you sign any paperwork - once you own it then you're dealing with warranty and not with the dealer trying to get out the door.

Y-Guy wrote:
The current "owner" of the name Weekend Warrior, The RV Factory, has nothing whatsoever to do with Mark Warmoth who was the founder and original builder of Weekend Warrior. Mark now own Extreme Warrior. RV factory bought the name rights, beyond that they are not the same RVs.

Welcome to the forums! I'd highly recommend spending some time and reading through various posts, you'll begin to get some idea of common issues and some of the more popular brands that are discussed. Quality is highly subjective, and changes over the years. What was a great product a couple years ago might have issues today. You'll want to do some inspection of your RV when you get close to buying, the key is to do your own PDI (we have help on those) before you sign any paperwork - once you own it then you're dealing with warranty and not with the dealer trying to get out the door.

Thank you! I had no idea of the change of ownership. So far, I've been impressed with the WW's I've seen and was starting to question my own judgement. I'm hoping they will live up to the hype. I watched the video last night where the WW is compared to a Raptor and WW was far and above higher quality (at least according to that one video).

Thanks again for your input. I hope others will chime in as well. Like I said, I'm looking to educate myself and my better half.

The other toy haulers we are considering are: (in no particular order)

Cyclone CY 4150 - i like the front bathroom model
Cyclone 3800

XLR 380 AMP

Voltage 3970
Tesla 3970

Raptor 425TS, 412TS

The WW is the only model we've seen with a 14' garage though.

Since we will be full-timing, kitchen storage is a must, a decent sized shower (not on the corner), and an east-west bed configuration so we can get cross-breezes. We currently have a TT and I really don't like the north-south bed configuration. I had to flip the head/foot orientation so we could get the breeze across our faces and not our feet.

One of my favs thus far is the DRV Fullhouse model, all the features of a 5th wheel, but with an exorbitant price tag unfortunately.

XLR Nitro is coming out with a new model with a 14' garage, if you wanted to look into that. It's the 36VL5. They have the floor plan on the Forest River website but no other specs. A friend has a 30VL5 which is the same plan, just a shorter garage, and it is a very nice rig.

JAC1982 wrote:
XLR Nitro is coming out with a new model with a 14' garage, if you wanted to look into that. It's the 36VL5. They have the floor plan on the Forest River website but no other specs. A friend has a 30VL5 which is the same plan, just a shorter garage, and it is a very nice rig.

Thank you so much. I'll definitely look into it.

And gee thanks for mentioning Cyclones, now you have me drooling over the Cyclone CY 3418 haha!

JAC1982 wrote:
And gee thanks for mentioning Cyclones, now you have me drooling over the Cyclone CY 3418 haha!

LOL! Definitely don't look at the 4150 then. This one has me drooling.

I've been to the RV Factory several times where they make the Warriors. Was very impressed with their factory, their cleanliness, and the time used to assemble their haulers, no spitting them out the door as fast as possible like the others. They also have the heavier than required susp in addition to a new spring under susp with a lower boxed sub frame to keep the height for the newer taller trucks. I thought their overall quality was as good or better than most of the other haulers I've looked at, plus they are willing to work with customers to upgrade or change things to what you need. If I was to purchase one today, that's probably the direction I'd go getting their 4250.
They also have the Mor-ryde susp with disc brakes available though they need to work on their pricing for that as Mor-ryde quoted me a price of under $9000 to install their independent/disc brake systems in one of Warriors 4100 haulers with me keeping my orig axles, wheels and tires so I'm thinking that that price should be deducted from the Warriors price before they tack on the new system.

tinner12002 wrote:
I've been to the RV Factory several times where they make the Warriors. Was very impressed with their factory, their cleanliness, and the time used to assemble their haulers, no spitting them out the door as fast as possible like the others. They also have the heavier than required susp in addition to a new spring under susp with a lower boxed sub frame to keep the height for the newer taller trucks. I thought their overall quality was as good or better than most of the other haulers I've looked at, plus they are willing to work with customers to upgrade or change things to what you need. If I was to purchase one today, that's probably the direction I'd go getting their 4250.
They also have the Mor-ryde susp with disc brakes available though they need to work on their pricing for that as Mor-ryde quoted me a price of under $9000 to install their independent/disc brake systems in one of Warriors 4100 haulers with me keeping my orig axles, wheels and tires so I'm thinking that that price should be deducted from the Warriors price before they tack on the new system.

We watched their video and I have to say I was very impressed. I really like the door from the garage to the living area, it's solid with a keyed entrance. The entrance doors are normal sized as well. It appeared to have solid construction and well finished. Trying to arrange a time to see one in real life. Looks like the first chance to do that will be in January at the Tampa show.

CherokeeClimber wrote:
Hi all,

We've been researching Toyhaulers and hope to hit the road at the end of the school year. We saw the Weekend Warrior at a show and have been researching it. I know it had frame issues a few years ago resulting in a class action suit.

My question is this: Does anyone here currently own a 2012-2017 Weekend Warrior 5th wheel and what has your experience been with it in terms of quality? Warranty issues? Getting work done in a timely manner?

If not the WW, then who, in your opinion (other than DRV's Fullhouse) has a good quality toy hauler.

Thank you so much for your input. These two teachers here really appreciate you helping to educate us. :)

Here's what we have found with the units we're interested in, any input you guys can offer is greatly appreciated:
The WW we have seen online are advertised n the $90K's for the most part, but we haven't seen any real data on what they are selling for. Any ideas? We have been quoted a price of $64K for the cyclone (2016) but have not been quoted a price on the momentum 397TH (2017) - have seen the local dealer MSRP set at $108K!!
"See dealer cost" has the MSRP for the momentum 397TH at 68K and dealer cost at 48K (these numbers seem too low...), the cyclone has a SCD MSRP of $84K and dealer cost of $56K. Does anyone have any real world experience with the cost of either o these units? We are hoping to get either the cyclone for under $60K or the momentum for a figure under $70K... Are we way off here - should we expect to pay more?
Thanks for any inout you may have:)