radiojeffrv
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sachilles... Congratulations on your purchase! We also picked up our 28A from CA and had much the same experience ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/smile.gif "smile")
We have done a bunch of upgrades and have a few more planed. We took a cross country trip last year from NJ out to Zion and the Grand Canyon with no issues at all!
Some of our mods include adding a TV, water filter and Accumulator Tank, portable solar and USB outlets for phone charging. This year I plan to add a 2nd house battery, as we like to boondock.
Best of luck with yours and welcome to the club!
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sachilles
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Thanks,
Boondocking will be our primary use. Second battery, is on our list. Mostly to cover the use of the heater in the spring and fall.
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IAMICHABOD
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sachilles,great to hear you made it safely back home and your inspection went well, your overall positive review will surely be of help to others. Again congratulations on your new rig and also being #100 on Former Rental Owners list!
I did notice on the newer Majestics that Cruise America has deleted the window in the door,I would surely miss that on mine, without it there would be no way to see who was at the door and I think it would make it a bit more confining without that extra light coming in.
I did find a recent thread where a Forum Member put a window in his door,this may be of interest to some of you if your are handy with tools,It doesn't seem to hard to do.
Here Is That Thread on page 3 it shows how he did it and the finished project.
I replaced my door window with a EDWIN,I liked it better than the frosted glass that was there.Here is that project.
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Hokie-Dave
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sachillies, glad you made it home safely. Yes, some of those roads in PA can be rough, especially parts of the turnpike. You will hear the house rattle as you are driving accross that road. I was afraid your purchase got delayed, I was driving home today and saw a 23A still parked out front with a SOLD sign on it.
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sachilles
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Hokie-Dave wrote:sachillies, glad you made it home safely. Yes, some of those roads in PA can be rough, especially parts of the turnpike. You will hear the house rattle as you are driving accross that road. I was afraid your purchase got delayed, I was driving home today and saw a 23A still parked out front with a SOLD sign on it.
That one was a guy coming in from the new york area. Flights there were all messed up on monday and tuesday. Thankfully we were able to fly over it, and drive through after it had been cleaned up.
Last I heard, he wasn't getting out by air, and was going to try to rent a car to get down.
We bought ours, drive to the walmart at the manassas mall, used our car rental to go to a couple local stores. Then loaded it up, and dropped the rental off at dulles on our way out.
We did get to hit the go kart place at the mall. My son go karts at home, he's 9. They were nice enough to let us on the track together, which isn't normally the case. Lil' brat nearly beat me.
Wish we had more time to poke around the battlefield.
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Hello, I am brand new to this forum and the first thing I would like to do is give IAMICHABOD a big thankyou for starting this thread. Had I not been able to use this as a resource in doing my research I'm sure I would never have considered buying a former rental unit. Now I have decided this is the way to go for the reasons indicated throughout these pages. I do not retire until next year so there is no urgency in buying one but it would be nice to get one sooner than later.
I live in Calgary Alberta and there are a couple of places that sell former rentals. None however appear to sell any with the Chev engine so I am limited to the ford engines. I am looking at something between 23 and 25 feet long so I can keep it behind our house.
I saw a couple of units today that look interesting. One is the 23A from CC that has about 160,000 km on it. It is 25 feet long and has the ford V8 engine. It does not have a generator. The other is an ALP adventurer that has about 90,000 less km and has a generator as well as the ford V10. However it costs about $15,000.00 more.
So the first question I have:is the V8 sufficiently powered to take the 23A through mountain drives? Also is it really necessary to have a generator?
Thanks and I'm sure I will have a few more questions as my search progresses.
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Photomike
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calcanrver wrote:Hello, I am brand new to this forum and the first thing I would like to do is give IAMICHABOD a big thankyou for starting this thread. Had I not been able to use this as a resource in doing my research I'm sure I would never have considered buying a former rental unit. Now I have decided this is the way to go for the reasons indicated throughout these pages. I do not retire until next year so there is no urgency in buying one but it would be nice to get one sooner than later.
I live in Calgary Alberta and there are a couple of places that sell former rentals. None however appear to sell any with the Chev engine so I am limited to the ford engines. I am looking at something between 23 and 25 feet long so I can keep it behind our house.
I saw a couple of units today that look interesting. One is the 23A from CC that has about 160,000 km on it. It is 25 feet long and has the ford V8 engine. It does not have a generator. The other is an ALP adventurer that has about 90,000 less km and has a generator as well as the ford V10. However it costs about $15,000.00 more.
So the first question I have:is the V8 sufficiently powered to take the 23A through mountain drives? Also is it really necessary to have a generator?
Thanks and I'm sure I will have a few more questions as my search progresses.
If one of those is from Fraserway RV..... RUN and do not stop running. I can fill pages of issues that they have and I have only taken a couple for test drives from them.
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Hi Photomike...I was hoping you would be among those to respond.I believe you had bought from the Cruise Canada dealer in Calgary which is where we saw the 23A Majestic unit.If for no other reason than the price this will be my focus. Yes the other unit was at Fraserway.
I know you bought the 19G unit recently which also has the Ford V8 and from what I have read this engine is fine for the 19 foot Majestic. The 28A Majestic has the V10 so I am just not sure if the V8 is adequate for the 25 foot one.We haven't got to the test drive stage yet.
Any tips as to what I should look for? Thanks.
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Photomike
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calcanrver wrote:Hi Photomike...I was hoping you would be among those to respond.I believe you had bought from the Cruise Canada dealer in Calgary which is where we saw the 23A Majestic unit.If for no other reason than the price this will be my focus. Yes the other unit was at Fraserway.
I know you bought the 19G unit recently which also has the Ford V8 and from what I have read this engine is fine for the 19 foot Majestic. The 28A Majestic has the V10 so I am just not sure if the V8 is adequate for the 25 foot one.We haven't got to the test drive stage yet.
Any tips as to what I should look for? Thanks.
Cannot help with the engine other than to say mine is amazing in the 19G. Last year was on the highway and a guy past me in a passing lane just as it was ending, pulled in front of me with only inches to spare and lost control of his truck. I had two choices - hit him or swerve around him. I pulled out saw I had a little room and floored it and that little motor home took off like a shot and got me past him and back in my lane faster than a sports car. They seem to be smart when building the units so I would think that the engine is the right power, take it out and try it only thing you have to loose is some time.
As far as dealing with CC take your time, check it our REALLY closely and be picky. Seeing you are in Calgary take it for a good long drive, hit some rough roads and hills and make sure that it has no issues. Test everything like the air, heater, water heater, etc. The units are amazing, difference is in how they are used and cleaned up for sale. I know that it is usually in the fall that they have the most units for sale as they are coming off the summer rentals but I am not sure if buying now is better or worse as they are gearing up for rental season and want to dump units that are on the lot so they are not sitting on them over the summer. They do have a rental program that applies your rental (or part of it) to the purchase. If you get it narrowed down to one unit see if you can take it out for a night or two.
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sachilles
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I only have limited use thus far, but I live in the mountains. I plan to tow my race car in the mountains. Driving it home, it had no problem with the mountain roads. It is definitely geared for it. It does better in the hills than the chevy van it's replacing that has the 5.7 v8 and is lighter. Transmission seams to use the engines power band effectively compare to the 4Le60 in the chevy van.
On the trip home we were passing others on the steep grades.
I had looked at cruise canada, and found it odd the lack of generators...not sure why they do that on the canadien ones.
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