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Re: 99 Holiday rambler Endeavor,.. First DP?
I wonder if anyone still finds this post...well here goes my opinion", because there are still a lot of these MH on the road, and they are amazing! We bought a 1999 HR Endeavor 37WDS4 from the original owner on July 4, 2019. It is a 1999 model, but he purchased it in FL in Jan 2000, so it was 19 1/2 years old at the time. Only had a little over 62,000 miles on it, and had always been garaged when not in use. Now it is almost 25 years old! We have been on three major trips (and numerous smaller ones) from VA to Colorado, and twice in 2023 and 2024 to New England all the way to Maine. Now has about 76,000 miles and still going very strong. The Diesel engine HR used in this model has a bit of trouble pushing up steep hills keeping speed at 275 HP, but we did a remote tuning by Pittsburgh Power and it seems that brought up the HP to roughly 320, and it has a lot more "get up and go" and does ok on hills even when pulling our 16' Car Trailer with a roughly 2,500lbs car on it. And it still gets better than 10 mpg going 65 on interstate etc - amazing gas mileage for this rig with trailer! On flat ground on the Interstate you don't even know the trailer is there (other than seeing it on the back up monitor). The build quality of this RV is beyond amazing. We noticed on our first trip to CO when morning dew was on all the RVs in the campground how ours had a support structure with much closer beams as most newer RV's, and it still is much lighter than newer ones of similar size, partly because only one slide out, makes for lots of room even when driving with slide-out in, not the claustrophobic feeling a lot of them give off with four slides when they are all in, leaving just a narrow pathway. Almost everything on our RV is original, but we enhanced the suspension with new Koni shocks and Comfort Ride Control valves, put new roll out cover over the slide-out, enhanced and made safe the Fridge with an ARP Fridge Defend module, installed back up sensors and a four camera system etc., and we had a couple larger repairs like the heater core, but overall mostly just maintenance once a year for engine and onan generator (oil change etc) and lubrication and so on. Of course we had to install new tires after we got it, but that is once every 10-12 years unless you drive a lot...380Views0likes0Comments
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