Adventure Location:
Decatur, Alabama
Date: March 29, 2024
The main stuff of today was looking at new travel trailers to find out what they are like. We saw lots of all sorts of cheaply built trailers with cheap prices to high priced cheap trailers. The worst part to us was that all of them seemed to be aimed at folks who do not spend much time inside them.
So we did not come up with any for full time living today. But quite a few the Teams would not think about traveling in. Now let us defend them a bit, they were sold to be sold by price not usability. Our guess was that if you did not use them much and they stayed outside then 10 years would be about the end of them. Otherwise 5 to7 years would be a generous limit.
So there you have the results of a day getting educated as a way of trying to have too much fun.
One key to shopping is slow and steady wins the race, may you be blessed with being at the right place at the right time ,Mary
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment.
DeleteWe've seen a few RV Factory Tours and not impressed by some. It seems the older the unit the better it is built.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Web Sites of local RV Dealers just to get an idea of what's out there.
Be Safe at having tooooo much fun.
It's about time.
That is reflecting what I saw today.. My Arctic Fox is a 2005 model with lots of rough miles on it,
DeleteI prefer vintage units. If it has lasted 50 years, they knew how to build them. And of course, they are much more inexpensive!
ReplyDeleteDon't get discouraged, OFM! If the cheap parts of the trailer are easily fixable, then it doesn't matter so much. That is true of most of the "housie" stuff inside. The axles and wheels, frame, and roof are the things that really matter.
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely correct.
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