This motorhome has pretty much everything we want with a king size bed, residential refrigerator, dinette, in motion satellite tv, tile floor, aqua hot heat and washer and dryer. The motorhome was parked between two other motorhomes so I didn't take any pictures of the outside. The outside is great except I did notice a scratch about 5 feet long on the passenger side in front of the back wheels on the lower portion of two door panels. Today they scheduled to get it into the body shop to fix this scratch. It's not a dent but more of a scratch so as long as the paint matches up it shouldn't be hard to fix. Since we were not hooked up to 110 power not all of the systems were available to be checked out. I am a little concerned about the six batteries since my fear is they are original but could not tell since the date tag was not punched out on the batteries. The sales person said the "coach" as they call it has not been through their receiving process yet since it just came in a week ago. They would go through it and clean everything and make sure everything is working properly before we would do our predelivery inspection. At that time we would go through every system with a specialist and he/she would explain how to use everything and how it works. They want us to plan to stay over night at that time in their campground adjacent to the sales and service area so we could "play" with things. The next day we would both go through a class room and actual motorhome driving course. We would also have more time to ask any remaining questions about how things work. Then we would make the final decision. The driving course is appealing to me even though I have driven big trucks I have never driven a motorhome and it is huge. I think we should have started with a 30 footer then graduated to a 36 footer then to this 42 footer. Pulling our swivel wheel trailer behind the 5th wheel we are over 60 feet but it seems different at least while sitting behind the wheel of the motorhome while it was parked. I will let you know when and if we get it and I have driven it
I told Huli that I just now seem to have all of the bugs worked out of the 5th wheel and everything is working great and now we are going to increase the complexity of things exponentially. The motorhome has many things I know nothing about. For example, it has six air bags for raising and lowering the suspension, it has a diesel or 110v fired aqua hot system that heats water for the bathing, provides heat to the motor home through pipes in the floor and also preheats the 425hp diesel engine when it's cold. It has rear and side cameras, solar panels, three roof air conditioners with heat pumps, two engine brakes and a 10,000 watt diesel generator. I think I may look into extended warranties at least for a year or two until I have a better understanding of this thing. The fluids and filters on the engine and generator will all be changed before we take delivery. Oh yea, did I mention a typical oil and filter change on this runs $300 to $350 on average. It takes like 26 quarts of oil but it doesn't require changing as often as a gas engine. You need the diesel engine to move the 54,000 lb. max gross weight down the road and more importantly up the hills.
Our sales person would like to close the deal by month end but Lazy Days is really busy. At the Tampa rv show the last four days they sold 550 new rv units. Before we finally agree to buy the unit I have to be convinced that everything works and the body is fixed correctly. They agree and have not forced us to sign one piece of paper at this point. They even called the prior owner today while we were there and ask for his permission for us to contact him directly which we plan to do this week.
Oh well we will see. Below are some of the interior pictures we took today. Here you go Gabe.
PS I forgot to take any of the toilet and the sink that is behind the door next to the washer and dryer.
