Think I will keep mine a little longer
Been shopping fifth wheels for some time now and I'm wore out! I can't really find what I want at the price I want to pay. I was in mine tonight getting ready to head out tomorrow for the weekend ...
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We had a Citation Supreme 30RLS Bumper pull...it was pretty much at the max for our 2500 Duramx..but we sold it after a year. Gorgeous trailer - solid as a rock...pretty much an Arctic Fox and then some. Problem was it simply too Damned long..!! We sold it this spring..and yea we took a 3000 hit on it. It took us a while to find what we were looking for:
3 months later we found our current rig: 2011 Chaparall. Triple slide yet still weighed in at 8050 dry. Aluminum structure/hardwall. the bonus was that the fridge was in the opposite slide as the door and totally accessible when the slides were in. The Financial Superintendant decided this was the unit...walked up to our sales guy and said:
"we have 27k .. we want this trailer .. make it happen.!! A 5.0 Italian that does not put up with any BS..!! with the taxes incl., we got it for that..including a pair of 6V batts to boot. We were tickled and it has proven to be an absolutely awesome trailer.
My mileage has risen from an avg of 10.5 - 11 mpg with pretty much any of the bumper pulls we have had all the way up to 13.5mpg and that was travelling in the BC Rockies: Calgary to Shushwap Lake just this month .. impressed to the nines I was. I also splurged and added a 160W solar pane...worth every penny.
I don't think we will trade/sell this unit anytime soon. It has pretty much everything we could have asked for. For $40 added a small inverter to run the 32" LCD TV and that pretty much filled things out as we do camp in Oct up here..when the snow starts to fly.
Soon to come will be a set of shocks and thats pretty much all we would like to do. New, this unit this year was selling in the $48,000 range...with little to gain over a 4 yr old unit 2nd hand unit. Our main criteria was dry & pin weight and fridge accessibility
We be good.!
Cheers,
stk
...Yet there are some manufactures who still do not get it. You should be able to travel with the trailer, stop someplace for food, and be able to put it away in the refrigerator without opening the slides. Or stop and make a sandwich...
3 months later we found our current rig: 2011 Chaparall. Triple slide yet still weighed in at 8050 dry. Aluminum structure/hardwall. the bonus was that the fridge was in the opposite slide as the door and totally accessible when the slides were in. The Financial Superintendant decided this was the unit...walked up to our sales guy and said:
"we have 27k .. we want this trailer .. make it happen.!! A 5.0 Italian that does not put up with any BS..!! with the taxes incl., we got it for that..including a pair of 6V batts to boot. We were tickled and it has proven to be an absolutely awesome trailer.
My mileage has risen from an avg of 10.5 - 11 mpg with pretty much any of the bumper pulls we have had all the way up to 13.5mpg and that was travelling in the BC Rockies: Calgary to Shushwap Lake just this month .. impressed to the nines I was. I also splurged and added a 160W solar pane...worth every penny.
I don't think we will trade/sell this unit anytime soon. It has pretty much everything we could have asked for. For $40 added a small inverter to run the 32" LCD TV and that pretty much filled things out as we do camp in Oct up here..when the snow starts to fly.
Soon to come will be a set of shocks and thats pretty much all we would like to do. New, this unit this year was selling in the $48,000 range...with little to gain over a 4 yr old unit 2nd hand unit. Our main criteria was dry & pin weight and fridge accessibility
We be good.!
Cheers,
stk
