RV Manufacture warranty
My wife and I are looking at going from a Class A motor home to a travel trailer. It's been a while since we purchased an RV. I was reading Forest Rivers web sight and was concerned with their war...
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JDsdogs wrote:
If this is the case, buying new RV would have little value for us. If I'm going to have to take care of issues on my own, I may as well buy used and save some $$.
Warranty issues are a near certainty with a new unit. They almost always have to go back to the dealer for repairs in that first year until all the bugs are worked out.
The second near certainty is that warranty service is slow and dealers don't care. Your new rig will sit on their lot for weeks or months while the sausage is being made.
Your choices as I see them are:
1. Buy new and brace yourselves for a rocky first year.
2. Buy new and just deal with those initial issues on your own.
3. Buy used and hope that the previous owner was thorough in catching all of the factory defaults and hope that they have all been remedied.
If I had known in advance that it would take our dealer 20 months to complete all of our warranty repairs, I would have split them out into batches of things we could afford to deal with and things we couldn't, and then just have the dealer work on the items where I couldn't go out of pocket.
I'd say that 1/3 to 1/2 of the dealer repairs were so bad anyway that we ended up having to re-repair them ourselves or hire a mobile tech to clean up their poor work.
The day we finally said goodbye to our dealer was a very happy day.
