What I learned about big DP's at the FMCA rally.

Interesting. Looks like we lucked out buying at the Springfield Rally. We have a light interior and off white leather seating. It is light without being BRIGHT inside. We weighed 4 corners when we bought and know we have sufficient carrying capacity with room left over. We are about 10PSI below max on inflation.

Even 4-5 sounds low, I average 8 mpg with a CAT C7 in a 32k lb. rig.

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy

Two Jayhawks wrote:

D.E.Bishop wrote:
I will go along with not liking the dark interior, never been in a S&B as dark as most big rigs.

What scares me is we visited with some folks in "Q" last week and their Monaco gets 1 to 3 MPG towing their full sized chevy pickup with a Razor in the bed. Over $700,000 and really poor fuel consumption.

Your friend should have his coach checked out 1 to 3 mpg is not the norm for even the largest of motor homes.

X2, that is not normal.

At 55,500 lbs, we get between 6.5-6.8 mpg. We have a 20,000 lb. towing capacity but the little Honda does just fine at 3,400 lbs.

I'm wondering if the fellow has a CAT in his Monaco. When we had our Dynasty, I was parked next to a guy with a Monaco that had the CAT engine. He was complaining about the low mileage in the 4-5 range. We were getting about 7.5 mpg with our Cummins in our 40,000 lb. Dynasty (our motorhome was larger than his).

On edit: I'm not dogging CAT's (no pun intended, LOL), they do need a valve adjustment at 30,000 miles. CAT's are strong engines. The guy needs to get it checked out.

Safe travels,
MM.

D.E.Bishop wrote:
I will go along with not liking the dark interior, never been in a S&B as dark as most big rigs.

What scares me is we visited with some folks in "Q" last week and their Monaco gets 1 to 3 MPG towing their full sized chevy pickup with a Razor in the bed. Over $700,000 and really poor fuel consumption.

Your friend should have his coach checked out 1 to 3 mpg is not the norm for even the largest of motor homes.

I will go along with not liking the dark interior, never been in a S&B as dark as most big rigs.

What scares me is we visited with some folks in "Q" last week and their Monaco gets 1 to 3 MPG towing their full sized chevy pickup with a Razor in the bed. Over $700,000 and really poor fuel consumption.

Ivylog wrote:
I wish they were required to post a CCC amount like they used to as then you had a better idea of how much stuff you could put in it

Newmar still gives approximate unloaded weights to give some idea of CCC.

Newmar

We had a 2004 Newmar Dutch Star and traveled constantly in it for 8 of our 16 full-timing years. It was awesome. We purposely wanted only two slides and they had to be on the same side. We love public park campgrounds which typically have trees. We didn't want to have to maneuver the slides inbetween trees on both sides.

We didn't want a washer/dryer and having to constantly do little amounts of laundry. We got 2-weeks worth done in 1-1/2 hr at the town laundromat and didn't have to think about it for another two weeks.

We never were inconvenienced by having only one bath.

We could never afford the new prices they ask for the motorhomes nowadays and we would never finance one. We wouldn't want the 1-1/2 baths, laundries, multiple televisions, umpteen slides and dark interiors. If bought again, we'd definitely be buying a used older quality unit and spend some money redecorating, if needed.

It seems like buyers now want everything that's in their homes. This means more complicated building of RVs; more problems and especially much higher prices. Nope. Not for us but we're probably in the minority the way they're being bought.

I'm aware that you weigh and then set the pressures BUT for my rig the listed pressures are within 5 psi of what I need to run on the front and drive axle and 10 psi on the tag. On the 40' rigs without a tag I'll bet you'll be within 5 psi of the listed pressure (some 130) loaded up for half/full time RVing. You do not put a 265 on the tag unless you need it to carry 17K or more.

I wish they were required to post a CCC amount like they used to as then you had a better idea of how much stuff you could put in it.

A bath and half is a full bath in the rear plus a half mid coach.

Blaster man, what pressures are you using? I agree a tag coach will likely be able to back off the pressures by 8-10 psi.

Tyler0215 wrote:
I too dislike the dark interior colors. Seems like living in a cave. I guess it does hide the imperfections, poor quality, and dirt.
Most mfgs don't even offer a light color.

They are just following what potential buyers say they want. Oak is out of popularity in designing homes ( I was told this by several home builders we interviewed ) and the darker rich cherry etc look is "in" with white stone / granite countertops at least in higher end homes. Buyers of NEW high end motorhomes are looking for those trends. Evidently they are buying them too ! Lower level RV's are just trying to look high end.

wow...I just looked at some Provosts online and some dont even have a dinnette or free standing table???