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tropical36
Mar 29, 2018Explorer
JoeMartin wrote:
My mother in law is selling her 2000 coachman Mirada 30qb. I am thinking of buying it from her but would like some advice. We took it for two days to Turner Falls in OK to see if we liked it but I notices a couple of Issues and I'm not sure how hard they would be to fix or how expensive. 1st the generator does not start. And the steps to get in do not retract like they are supposed to. She believes that both of these issues I caused by rodents chewing on the wiring underneath if that is the case might be an easy fix. Next issue For the hot water heater to come on you have to flip the switch like 15 or 20 times before you get a green light showing that it late. Also there seems to be a small leak with the plumbing around the shower. The only time I saw water under the RV was after a shower. Both tanks held water fine. Also the vents in the front that blow on the driver and passenger art working properly. I think they're stuck on defrost but it's hard to tell. On each side of the rv there is one spot that looks like it has some DE lamination starting. Nothing bad yet. The good news is it only has 23000 miles on it. And about 71 hours on the generator. We like to campaign. And would like to get an RV. We could probably get a good deal on this but not wanting to buy something that's going to be a money pit. Would anyone happen to know how much these issues would cost to get fixed. Just looking for a ballpark figure
As always, it's about the money and where you should be really asking the question, so what can you get this rig for and not like another one, won't have it's own set of problems.
I believe these coaches to be pretty entry level and just for example, we sold a top of the line 98 NationalTropical for $12500 in 2016. It was really nice overall, but did have a few things that needed taking care of.
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