Sprinter Reliability
After, more or less, deciding on a class B sprinter as first rv purchase, I read some articles/threads today questioning their reliability. I'm sure there have been many comments over time regardin...
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jjson775 wrote:
Our 2006 Pleasure Way Excel was built on a Ford E-350. It was flawless. Changed the oil myself or took it to Walmart. Just bought another PW, a Pursuit, also an E-350. We never had a problem with our old one but if we did, we knew we could get a Ford fixed anywhere in the U.S. or Canada. As has been posted many times on this forum, it takes a lot of miles to recover the extra cost of a Sprinter by fuel savings. Probably works out for FedEx since they run all day long, every day.
As someone else said it's just not the maintenance it's the comfort ability. I have had both types and the Sprinter gives you and your passenger a much better overall driving experience. I am sure if you go over to the Ford or Chevy/GMC van boards you will find naysayers their as well. BTW in my area diesel is about the same or a little less than unleaded regular. In addition to 21 mpg at 70 mph I like the torgue of the Mercedes diesel over the gas engines.
