Older Motorhome

Owning a 1996 GBM Class A I can identify with a lot of the posts. Every trip something needed fixing. The major costs were the IFS which were caused by the front end shop putting in the wrong ball joints twice. If I remove those costs I ended up spending about $1200 in 16 years of ownership. Including the front end costs it was $21,348.This is for repairs, modifications like headers and routine maintenance like oil and other fluid changes. I put on over 100k miles in 16 years it now has about 130k miles on it. So we used it enjoyed the trips the only time I had to be towed were do to the front end failures. I did have a fuel pump go out on the road but was able to drive to a shop. These times were not pleasant and can really put a damper on your trips. So if I add the total cost Of $21,348 to the purchase price of $28,500 that would be $49,848 for 16 years of ownership. By contrast my friend has owned 3 new MH's during that same period and has lost more than that in deprecation alone. As far as repairs his first DP was in the shop almost 3 months for warranty repairs so he lost a whole summer and sold it the following year. My conclusion if you don't want to work on these yourself don't buy or keep an older MH. I wonder if TC's have less problems/expense than Class A's or C's?