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We are going to put our deposit down tomorrow on a lance 2185. We went and looked yesterday just for the fun of it as we were settled on a jayco 28babe and fell in love with the smaller Lance. It still has a bunkhouse for the kids and all but is near 8ft and 2000lbs smaller. What sold us was the quality! Wow, after looking and researching we knew jayco was good but doesn't hold a wish to the lance. Price, yes it is $8k more than the bigger Jayco but we feel worth every penny. The salesman was great and coming from sales I can tell you why,,,, he had 100% confidence in the quality and value of his product. It sold itself. Does anyone have a 2185 or Lance??339Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
We stopped at a CW the other day we asked to see any they had that were a BHS ... She showed us everything but not one BHS. It was comical, she kept asking our "sweety" daughter what she wanted. Our 11 year old is very polite and smart (home schooled) and just kind of smiled at the lady. I think the sales lady was banking on soft idiot parents giving a spoiled brat what she wanted. So transparent!337Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
My Salesman just told me that the sway bar he quoted me was a Reese that I would have to take off EVERYTIME I wanted to backup. Does this sound right? Yuck! "The basic hitch is a Reese 10k lb combo kit ($429)and the upgrade is an Equalizer E2-roundbar ($565)"330Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
On towing capacities, from everyone's help here it looks like I will be close but not over. I have towed some things that have been WAY over capacity in the past without problems. Needless to say I look back and just cringe. If I ever go over (not by an extreme amount of course) in the future I assume the TT just won't bust off the hitch, you just feel it more when at speed, wind, or breaking?330Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
Ok, I did not know there were different tow hitches. I fall in the old saying in the Jurassic Park movie, "I'll spare no expense" so I should get the bigger one. I was quoted from this new salesman $429 but he didn't say what model it was. OCD, yep I wont say that about myself but my wife will. BTW is DW an abbreviation here for wife, I've seen it a few times? My truck is rated at 11klbs. The trailer is at 6135,,, even with my wife (DW?) and young daughter and some piles of junk to load in I can't image that we would get to the gvwr of 9250. But I bet a bunch of you are laughing and shaking your heads,,, "Just you wait!"338Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
Well, you all are tremendously helpful. The dealer I just started talking to says $1,000 to hold and start inspection on vehicle. Does that sound reasonable? And someone mentioned an inspection spreadsheet of some kind. Unless you have one handy I can try and track down one. Tongue weight, is there some sort of scale you can get to check this? When I'm talking about shifting weight to the rear, I'm not talking about creating negative tongue weight, just keeping it in a manageable level the way I do with a work trailer. I hope that makes sense? :) Oh, and the 2015 Tundra is the off-road edition so it has a beefed up suspension.338Views0likes0CommentsRe: Our First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
I am very handy for sure but I think the biggest issue would be a mysteriously leaking ceiling or wall. The last thing I want to do is look for a leak with caulk gun in hand,,, or actually deal with a poop issue. As far as tongue weight, all dealers are trying to sell me a special tow hitch for like $800. And from the reading on here I feel that is cool. I have learned from towing different things over the years that if I want to decrease tongue weight just load stuff behind the last axle, does this hold true here as well?216Views0likes0CommentsOur First TT, will it be a hobby nightmare?
We are 2 weeks away from buying our first TT and we are not sure if this will be a nightmare or everything we dream about? We have our own business and can work from the office or a cruise ship, so no worries there. We home school our 11 year old and we are a very close fun family, and road trip ALOT now. We have the cash so no budget issues there. We just got a big 2015 Tundra and we're looking at the Jayco 28bhbe (with 1 slide)as the weight isn't crazy and even loaded is under the max the Tundra can handle. After doing research on brands, taking into consideration the floor plan we would like, visual inspection, salesman's pitching (ugly business here) reviews and conversations on this forum, we think the Jayco model mentioned above will be best. Our huge anxiety comes from reading different peoples issues with all brands somewhat in general. Electrical and Plumbing Issues. Leaking Roofs. Mold. Mice invasions! Our other main critical concern is after the sale service. After reading the reviews on ALL the dealers here in and around Austin Texas it looks like all service departs are horrific! I can pick out the reviewer bomb throwers in a review here or there and discard them but,,, good googly moogly,,,, these places are all SUPER BAD to deal with service. We went to 1 dealer in Buda Texas who wanted to make a point that we HAD to get fiberglass as hail would destroy a camper. He drove us through what I can only describe as a camper grave yard. There must have been 100 campers all waiting for service. I asked him about this and he said some are waiting on insurance claims, others for parts, and just an assortment of reason! I think he wished he had not brought us back there in the end. Finally, yes there are dozens and dozens of bad reviews and customer complaints but on the flip side,,, are there hundres or thousands of truley satisfied customers that just don't share their experience? What do we do, what do you think?9.1KViews0likes53CommentsRe: Learning to BackIn!!
We will be getting our very first TT in the next 2 weeks. I have a pretty darn high anxiety level about backing into a spot or also as I call it getting stuck (getting into any sort of spot that I can't get out of. My experience backing started years ago trailering a race car, but more recently pulling and back equipment attached on a daily basis to a small farm tractor. But,,,, backing a 30ft monster!! I technically know how to backup but will take that one persons advise and hit a big empty parking with some cones. For final backing and parking having the wife there to make sure I don't scrape or hit things was also on my radar but the best advise was only using her or the spotter to tell you when you are going to hit something, not necessarily having them micro manage the backing process.159Views0likes0Comments
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