Older Motorhome
The joys of owning an older motorhome. I have a 2008 Winnebago Aspect 26A on a E450 Ford. This trip has been interesting. The morning of a our departure we had to have our fully loaded vehicle towed o...
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Big Katuna wrote:I can see that, especially if storing your rig outdoors in less than ideal conditions.
There is definitely a ten yearish honeymoon period.
When not in-use, our (purchased new) 2007 rig stays indoors in our heated garage.
The garage being partially under-ground & under-house, the rig is also kept relatively cool in the summer. 12ish years and ~40k miles so far, our troubles have been nil except for batteries of both sorts over the years and one set of replacement shocks last summer. There have been monetary interior things hardly worth mentioning. Most of my work on the rig is what I call improvements, not repairs.
But during the next year or two I will be going through preventative maintenance on the chassis changing fluids. The most expensive thing coming up will be new tires and Alcoa wheels.....the wheels being another enhancement.
We hope to keep our rig until we are too old and dangerous to drive it which we estimate is still 25 years away. So our plan is in the ball park of 37 years of ownership. I hope our rig goes easy on me. As long as I can do most of the work myself, we should be okay. But if it's a serious money pit later, then we'll have to give it up early.
