PPL motorhomes

We never bought anything but did a lot of communications with them found them very forward about releasing info on the units we liked. We goggled RV repairs in that zip code and found a few places that would do inspections for us. Might try that.

I have not bought from them. I have talked and emailed them a few timesabout a few coaches they had I was interested in.Seemed ok....

I posted this the other day.
Maybe it will help
Excellent Condition

It is predominantly a consignment lot. So, you will find the full range from very well maintained to virtually neglected. Not all good or bad, but the full range of conditions.

They are pretty up-front about condition, but they have NOT reconditioned them.

The good news is that they have a LOT of coaches for sale.

I have purchased a few parts from then, maybe $4,000 over the years and found them to be very professional and the best prices around. As far as the purchase of a motor home, I purchased one from a dealer in Oregon that was miss represented. Had they been a local dealer in my state I would have filed a law suit. Taking legal action against a business that is out of state is a real challenge. I would never buy something as complicated as a MH from an out of state dealer again, especially The RV Coral in Eugene Oregon.

I do like PPL a lot!

Do they have any thing in Houston that you could look at,have bought from them good service.

Wife and I went there to look at rigs this past summer while we were in camping in San Antonio. Here are our take-aways.

Staff was not very friendly and didn't seem real interested in investing any time in us. It was raining when we showed up and several of the rigs were leaking, including a Beaver that had water running down the inside of the windshield. One rig had all the windows open, and rain was coming in the rig....we closed up all the windows.

On the way back into the office they had a family who was looking to consign their rig....the rep was more interested in covering up some issues versus getting them properly fixed.

We left, and bought our rig through another venue. It may have been a bad day for them, but we decided it was not where we were going to find our rig.

Good luck!

After all the hype that this forum gives PPL I decided to take a look at a rig in their new location. I was not overly impressed. They are a good consignment lot, just like any other good consignment lot in North America.

Because of the long RV'ing season in Texas I think selling through PPL is a great idea, don't know if it's worth the plane trip and travel hassle to buy from them unless it's a hard to find coach or a great price.

I'm also pleased to see this forum no-longer bragging up that Mad Monkey ;) auction website. I checked that place out a few years ago, and was really not impressed. Even the owner couldn't believe he was selling coaches at the prices the auction was getting for sight unseen rigs.

I have sold my fifth wheel via them. I also just bought a TT from them and I am picking it up tomorrow from PPL Motorhomes in Houston. They have two locations in Texas, one in Houston and another one new San Antonio. They are opening a new one near Forth Worth, TX.

If you are looking for used units, this is the place to go. Many biggest dealers will have hundreds of new units, but maybe 20 - 40 used units. PPL will have hundreds of all used units in various condition. I have seen some really bad units and they still manage to sell it. For 390 dollars, they can do a full inspection to make sure everything works. If they find something wrong with it, they will tell you. You can either back out or have the seller cover the repair bill. They are starting to sell new TT, so that will be interesting to show how it will lead them down the road.

The sales person are just too busy to walk with you around the lot to show you and go over the campers and stuff. They are usually nice and everything. The lot is cramped with units and it take hours to walk through them. The best way is to use the internet and make a list of units you want to see. Then come to the lot and check them out on your own. If you find something, then go back to the office and ask for a sales person. I would not recommend buying it without physically checking it out because pictures don’t tell you a lot. If you do, pay the 390 dollars service.

They are very good at updating the website with either pending or sold sign. However, they are slow to list new units, so they usually have more than what is listed on their website.

Here is my opinion since you are from south California. If you see 5 units or more that you are interested in on their website and you are ready to buy, then it is worth flying down. Because you have greater chance to end up with something then if you only see one or two units you like on their website. You need to factor in the cost of you coming down here or to ship it. Sometime it is cheaper to pay more for the ones that are closer to you. It works out well for me because I live close to them.

I would go look somewhere else or do as I did and ask here on the forum if anyone is going to be there and could take a quick look at it for you. I just copied this from a older post from over the summer when we were looking and found one on PPL site that we liked and was listed at very good +. Here are two seperate people from the forum that looked at it for me. One lives close by and stops in once in a while to see what they have and the other was looking at a coach there and purchased elsewhere.



Mike,
To put it bluntly, this poor vehicle has been "rode hard and put up wet" (Texas for "it needs a LOT of work - translated = money) The pictures on PPL's ad do not indicate the true condition.
Leather on the pilot/co-pilot chairs is heavily cracked. Both sofas are badly stained and appear to have been "lived on". Wonder if this was a full timers vehicle? They did have an animal as the chair skirt had been chewed/ripped. Windscreen was cracked from top to bottom in front of the co-pilot. The 3-M coating on the entire front of the vehicle looked terrible and needed removal then repainted $$$. The slide awnings were ripped to the point of replacement needed, not repair. Carpet was stained (probably beyond cleaning). Looked in the engine compartment - couldn't see much for all the dust, dirt, grease and wasp nests. Storage bins were the same. Exterior paint had the "checking" which is known in this era Monaco. Ours has it but not as bad as this vehicle. Tires were a hodge podge from the 2010-11 time frame. good tread and slight cracking.

It was in such bad shape that the maintenance would be VERY suspect but we had no time to find nor inspect the records.

I'm a do it yourself type with a steel barn and concrete floor - Wouldn't even think about this one. If you do, a mechanics inspection and engine/transmission oil analysis should be done before money changes hands.

Stickers indicated a San Antonio vehicle and it was apparent it had never been inside so sun "worn" everywhere.

Sorry to be so negative,


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Good to hear XXX had the same opinion. Everyone looks at stuff differently and has different tastes and opinions of what is good and bad. I was very hesitant to call it a POS, but that is the best description one could give for it.

I am with you on the PPL deal. Lots of people rave about them, that is the only reason I went down to look at a couple coaches. To me, that is the absolute worst place you could take your coach to sell. They dont care about the coaches, they just sit out in the weather and get hammered. They don't clean them or do anything to them to take care of them. We had some crazy high winds come through recently, they did not take the slides in on any of those coaches, several awning were ripped and torn up as a result.
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The salesman told me this coach was in great condition and would buy it himself. He explained to me they work on salery and no commission so he could say that. I'm glad I found someone to look at it real quick for me before I flew from ct to tx.