NorthernMarshPanda wrote:
- Would genuinely love to hear more about why buying an old Cruise Canada / Cruise America vehicle is a bad idea. My partner and I were conflicted as to whether or not this was a positive or negative thing. Con: Has had more usage than a privately owned RV; Pro: Perhaps has been better maintained by a commercial entity? (e.g. like buying a used car from a rental is often a good deal)
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The problem with "rentals" is there is a lot of "drive it like it was stolen" attitude buy the renters. The words "gently used" typically are not applicable to anything rented.
Just because it was owned and maintained by a "commercial entity" also does not mean that the commercial entity has done better maintenance and repairs to it either.. The commercial entity is buying and renting in order to make a profit, therefore much of the maintenance will be for keeping it in some form of road worthy operation up to the point of the repairs exceeding profits and value of the vehicle and it will be done as cheap as possible (scavenging used parts comes to mind).
I personally would never consider buying a commercial rental car or RV as a "good deal", your getting highly worn out vehicle that most likely not only will require considerable outward appearing work but a lot of other mechanical parts like front end steering, suspension, brakes and even perhaps electrical and engine/transmission repairs. There could be even a lot of hidden repairs and fixes that will never get reported to carfax or other reporting places since much of the work is almost always done in house.
