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Re: Suggestions when looking at used Class A motor homes
As someone who went through this very process for close to a year of researching before finally making a purchase in October 2021, the first thing I did was purchase the latest RV Ratings Guide here. This guide provides an overview of some of the most popular RV brands out there and how they hold up to a panel of different tests and maintenance track records provided by consumer input collected over the years. Growing up, my Dad always had a motorhome and we would always go camping. The brand my Dad trusted the most all of those years was Tiffin, built in Redbay, Alabama. Tiffin has long been one of RV enthusiasts most favorite RVs for many reasons but their reputation for quality of construction and unprecendented customer support are some of the driving factors. Tiffin was recenlty aquired by Thor Industries but it was allowed to continue operating independently and is still managed by Bob Tiffin the founder, and his family. We ened up purchasing a 2011 Tiffin Allegro Bus 40 QXP diesel pusher. It comes with the Cummins 450 HP 9L engine. Diesel because, just as the research suggests, if you keep up on maintaining a diesel pusher, you'll never have to worry about mileage. In fact, if you lookup a diesel pusher's value on the J.D. Power's website it will instruct you not to include mileage. At the time, the motorhome was 10 years old but it looked brand new and it had all of the bells and whistles of a modern home (and then some) and they are really designed to travel extensively in upon retirement. I am not quite ready to retire yet and have since realized that maybe I bit off more than I can chew. I say this only because I don't get to use it as much as I thought I would and the few things that have broken and I've had to fix, were really expensive to do so. Mainly because I am not as handy as I would like to be -which would have save me thousands of dollars in labor costs compared to taking the motorhome to a Tiffin certified repair center -which there are few, outside Redbay, Alabama. Befofe we purchased the Tiffin coach we found right outside San Antonio, TX (we live in Florida), I hired a RV certified inspector from here who went out to the location of the motorhome and performed a complete inside and outside inspection based on a multipoint checklist they are cerfied to inspect. They also take fluid samples -both oil and antifreeze from the engine and genertor (if equiped) and send those samples off for analysis. Once the inspection was done and the fluid analysis results were returned a few days later and everything checked out good, we made the purchase.3.3KViews0likes0Comments
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