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Scottyboy

Cheers Dazzer, i read this on another thread and had a good look at both sites, was this a lot of hassle and how knowledgeable were you about RV's before you went out.

Sounds like a good idea but i am one of these people who likes everything done for them and done at my pace like, right i want that one, heres the money, now i want it on my doorstep and i want to drive it tomorrow no messing about.

Dazzer

Hi Scottyboy

You have a PM

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Dazzer

foggyparrot

Hi Scottyboy,

You haven't mentioned the possibility of buying privately.

If you were to buy privately over here, you can save up to £10000 on a vehicle! For instance; one local dealer has a 1995 Sunseeker for £31k and a similar vehicle (a year younger) was for sale in the Auto Trader for £23k. This is only one example, but if you are saving that kind of money it does give yousome scope for putting right any wrongs or making sure that you get theupgrades or toys you need.

EBay is also a good source. There are a number being listed at the moment.

Only a thought!

Mike

Scottyboy

Cheers Mike i am following both Ebay and A/T closely. Still waiting for any opinions on the Gulfstream at Dreams, if anyone has one it would be much appreciated.

Bryan

Hi Scottyboy,

We are relative newbies ourselves having only owned an RV for the last 6 months.

We wanted an RV because of the space, wow factor and because they can offer great value for money.

Our first one was bought very much at an impulse. We had only seen photos of it. Whilst it was very nice indeed we decided to sell it and get a newer on.

Our main issue was with the electric conversion which I'll come back to.

Our second RV is newer, less mileage and in better condition.

Both RV's are Damon Daybreaks.

The electrical conversions were very different however and this is one factor that I would advise to investigate fully.

The 240v conversion in our first RV amounted to nothing more than 3 double sockets on a UK consumer unit fed from the hookup wire.

This meant that whilst on hookup we could watch TV etc. but we couldn't use the microwave or air conditioning and I never did work out what battery charging may or may not have been in progress. The internal lights worked off 12v and so hookup was of pretty small use.

Also as the onboard generator only output 110v we could not use 240v appliances without an additional generator or hookup.

Our 2nd (current) RV has what would be called a proper conversion. All bar one of the sockets is on 240v (the remaining 110v one is for the coffee maker) including the external sockets. The on-board generator outputs 220v and whether we are on hookup or genny power EVERYTHING works.

I would never consider an RV with the limited conversion our first RV had.

Hope this helps in some way.

Regards

Bryan

Scottyboy

Thank you Bryan, its all very helpful.