Well.....it’s in the drive way now!!

[eDUBz]

Well here she is 2011 Forest river stealth fs2612 Limited.

We were dead set on the 2018 forest river sandstorm 251GSLC. We tried to negotiate with two dealers and one said nope not happening we have the best price around at 36k. Second dealer said best we can do OTD is 40k. I honestly didn’t feel like biting the bullet and just paying the full asking price they wanted. A lil negotiating would of been cool, but nooooo. At this point I just tell Nicole we will wait it out,
No rush as we want to make the right purchase and feel happy about the deal. What else to do with a naked drive way, I hit up craigslist. My search was all CA,AZ,NV,OR. And Texas since my in laws live there. We really didn’t find anything that met
Our wants, and if I did find it, it was I coregated siding which is a deal breaker for me. For the next few days I was sharking CL - I did a local search but in the general search bar instead of RVs and Came across this stealth. I like what I read in the description and it was only 20 mins away. I was a lil hesitant to present an older used trailer to Nicole, but I told her and I
Said we will just look, but if you like it and it checks out I’m fine with used if you are. Well we pull up and she sees a dirty trailer and
First words were nope we’re not buying that. I said well it can be cleaned and polished out no problem let’s see what it’s about. Lo and behold the inside is immaculate, and she agrees - she likes it! STOKED!!!

For those watching the new vs used thread this is a perfect example of used is not a bad thing if your patient enough. We
Went from 2013 Pacific coachworks powelite 19’ to this. You don’t get everything you want but the pros out weight the cons for us.

Pros:
1 Owner (custom order in 2011)
No toys ever loaded, ever!
Solar
Fiberglass siding
On board gen (only 56 hours)
Aluminum framing
105 gallon water tank
36gallon fuel tank
9 good size windows
Dry weight 6200#s
Bigger kitchen
$18,000 - $23,000 In savings (now the RZR is up for sale ) 🙂 upgrade time!!

I like the lighter wood interios, I don’t care too much for the newer dark and grey ones.

Cons:
Manual awning
Fuel station is on curb side
No bed room door (has curtain)
Smaller bathroom
96” wide compared to 102” wide
Needs a buff and polish (I’m dreading it)
Only two stabilizers (rear) I need to add two in the front
No black tank flush out (have to run hose to toilet )
No ladder

[busterja21]

check out the 3M Gelcoat cutting compound and wax. will make the gelcoat look like new again.

[eDUBz]

Most likely a 900 4 seater, we just need a lil more go than the 800 and I don’t want the kids driving a 1000 yet.

[mrw8i]

eDUBz wrote:

dedmiston wrote:

eDUBz wrote:
(now the RZR is up for sale )

HUH?

Getting rid of it, or replacing it?

We sure love our new Can Am x3. Would the x3 Max fit in your new trailer?

That sure is a nice looking unit. Looks like the previous owner really took great care of it. Congratulations.

With all the cash saved we are upgrading ??

Interested to know what you are thinking. Soon after we got our 800 2-seater - the kids (they're all over 30 now) - wanted to go with us. If I hadn't turbo charged the 800, done a bunch of suspension work, put in suspension seats - we'd have a XP1000 4 seat by now. Now there is the RZR Turbo 4, and all the choices from Can AM. Although that 4 seat CanAm is long, like minivan long. I've also been following the new Arctic Cat/Textron Wildcat XXX - waiting for the turbo version, then see what the 4 seat ends up like. The Wildcat has some really nice design concepts and seems to be made to stay together (time will tell).

[eDUBz]

mrw8i wrote:
We did the same thing. I had a hard time biting the bullet on new, along with issues I knew would need to be fixed. I think also ended up using Craigslist. Finally settled on a 2006 34.5 Ragen 5th wheel at decent price. Interior very nice, for the year. Fairly basic layout back then. Same issues you have, curbside fuel station, manual awning, . . . - but we are happy after 4 years with it. I did the following to it in the first year:
- Replaced 3 12V deep cycle with 4 6V Golf Cart batteries and an easy re-fill system for the battery water
- LEDs throughout
- Replaced the charging converter
- Upgraded battery cabling all the way to the converter
- they had let the black tank get pretty bad, that took awhile to clean out so it didn't smell so bad.
- Added a black tank spray
- Added 400W of solar
- Replaced the fuel station hose, nozzle and added a swivel
- Polish, seal (done that 2x now)
- Checked and resealed all roof penetrations
- Put 4 Bridgestone Rib tires, replacing the ST tires

It has some issues due to age, but it's old and still does well by us.

Is that white car in your garage a Buick?

Nice. I think seasoned rvers know what to look for and know what they want. The previous owner said 3 people looked at it before me.
Good catch, it is a Buick. Which one ?







67 buick Skylark California GS - 340 motor column shift. It was a knock off of the GS 400. Pretty much posers wishing they had the 400

[eDUBz]

nayther wrote:

eDUBz wrote:

nayther wrote:
Good job.

A fellow club member has this exact trailer and it's been good for him. If you have heater issues let me know, he did and I helped him correct it.

Thanks Nayther!

He might of fixed that already as he upgraded the thermostat .

it was lack of air flow, same issue I had with my Rage'n. With limited places to put ducts they did not install enough so the air flow was restricted causing furnace to trip off on high limit before the coach is up to temp. easy fix by just adding a second vent next to one that serves the main cabin. It's easy to install.

Good to know, thanks!

[eDUBz]

dedmiston wrote:

eDUBz wrote:
(now the RZR is up for sale )

HUH?

Getting rid of it, or replacing it?

We sure love our new Can Am x3. Would the x3 Max fit in your new trailer?

That sure is a nice looking unit. Looks like the previous owner really took great care of it. Congratulations.

With all the cash saved we are upgrading ??

[nayther]

eDUBz wrote:

nayther wrote:
Good job.

A fellow club member has this exact trailer and it's been good for him. If you have heater issues let me know, he did and I helped him correct it.

Thanks Nayther!

He might of fixed that already as he upgraded the thermostat .

it was lack of air flow, same issue I had with my Rage'n. With limited places to put ducts they did not install enough so the air flow was restricted causing furnace to trip off on high limit before the coach is up to temp. easy fix by just adding a second vent next to one that serves the main cabin. It's easy to install.

[dedmiston]

eDUBz wrote:
(now the RZR is up for sale )

HUH?

Getting rid of it, or replacing it?

We sure love our new Can Am x3. Would the x3 Max fit in your new trailer?

That sure is a nice looking unit. Looks like the previous owner really took great care of it. Congratulations.

[mrw8i]

We did the same thing. I had a hard time biting the bullet on new, along with issues I knew would need to be fixed. I think also ended up using Craigslist. Finally settled on a 2006 34.5 Ragen 5th wheel at decent price. Interior very nice, for the year. Fairly basic layout back then. Same issues you have, curbside fuel station, manual awning, . . . - but we are happy after 4 years with it. I did the following to it in the first year:
- Replaced 3 12V deep cycle with 4 6V Golf Cart batteries and an easy re-fill system for the battery water
- LEDs throughout
- Replaced the charging converter
- Upgraded battery cabling all the way to the converter
- they had let the black tank get pretty bad, that took awhile to clean out so it didn't smell so bad.
- Added a black tank spray
- Added 400W of solar
- Replaced the fuel station hose, nozzle and added a swivel
- Polish, seal (done that 2x now)
- Checked and resealed all roof penetrations
- Put 4 Bridgestone Rib tires, replacing the ST tires

It has some issues due to age, but it's old and still does well by us.

Is that white car in your garage a Buick?

[eDUBz]

2edgesword wrote:
Very nice! Given all the issues people have with new if you can find the right used unit you can save thousands of dollars that can go into an RV emergency fund to use if something does go wrong. As you mentioned, being patient and willing to make some compromise are keys.

The same applies to buying a tow vehicle. My wife wanted to upgrade our TT from a unit that was 23', 4,700 lbs to 32.5', 8,800 lbs. I knew there was no way we were going to pull the new TT with our current 1/2 ton truck so we were in the hunt for a new TV. Of course new is nice but the prices were WAY OVER what I wanted to spend with less than two years away from retirement so we compromised on a used, regular cab 3/4 ton truck. It has no bells or whistles but it will tow her new 8,800 lbs toy and that's all she cares about, especially since she spends 90% of the travel time sleeping :).

we came to a conclusion that we won’t get everything we want even in a new trailer with a 30’ max overall length unless one of two things happen A, sell our house and buy one with more land or B, keep it in storage.

Glad you guys made it work.

[eDUBz]

DiskDoctr wrote:
Sweet!!!!

Imagine what $2k can do to your rig with updates, upgrades, maintenance, tires, etc. Sounds like you have PLENTY of savings to consider it.

First thing I'd suggest is to get up and get that roof inspected/sealed. If it was sitting dirty, that maintenance was likely not kept up to date.

Do you have vent covers, like the MaxAir II? Allow you keep vents open in rain.

Fantastic fan in each roof vent?

LED lights throughout?

4-stage charger/converter? Inverter? Generator is a GREAT option you have, but sometimes you only need some power, not a generator.

Good, appropriate rated tires that aren't over 5 yrs old.

Electric trailer jack

What else is on your "wish list" ? 😉

Great find :C

Maintenance was kept up just nit washed much. Roof is in tact and all good. Definitely going to reseal.

No Maxx air vents, adding those today. It does have 1 a fantastic Fan.

No Leds - future upgrade, Amazon has bulk packages that I did for our old TH

No inverter, adding a samlex

He put good years on in November but I’m thinking of new ones, plus wheelbeing inspection and brake have whatever need replaced done,

Yes, electric trailer jack.

[eDUBz]

nayther wrote:
Good job.

A fellow club member has this exact trailer and it's been good for him. If you have heater issues let me know, he did and I helped him correct it.

Thanks Nayther!

He might of fixed that already as he upgraded the thermostat .

[goreds2]

Super nice camper. Sometimes the best deals are the one's you do NOT make.

[2edgesword]

Very nice! Given all the issues people have with new if you can find the right used unit you can save thousands of dollars that can go into an RV emergency fund to use if something does go wrong. As you mentioned, being patient and willing to make some compromise are keys.

The same applies to buying a tow vehicle. My wife wanted to upgrade our TT from a unit that was 23', 4,700 lbs to 32.5', 8,800 lbs. I knew there was no way we were going to pull the new TT with our current 1/2 ton truck so we were in the hunt for a new TV. Of course new is nice but the prices were WAY OVER what I wanted to spend with less than two years away from retirement so we compromised on a used, regular cab 3/4 ton truck. It has no bells or whistles but it will tow her new 8,800 lbs toy and that's all she cares about, especially since she spends 90% of the travel time sleeping :).

[DiskDoctr]

Sweet!!!!

Imagine what $2k can do to your rig with updates, upgrades, maintenance, tires, etc. Sounds like you have PLENTY of savings to consider it.

First thing I'd suggest is to get up and get that roof inspected/sealed. If it was sitting dirty, that maintenance was likely not kept up to date.

Do you have vent covers, like the MaxAir II? Allow you keep vents open in rain.

Fantastic fan in each roof vent?

LED lights throughout?

4-stage charger/converter? Inverter? Generator is a GREAT option you have, but sometimes you only need some power, not a generator.

Good, appropriate rated tires that aren't over 5 yrs old.

Electric trailer jack

What else is on your "wish list" ? 😉

Great find :C