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Phyl


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Hubby saw a used 31' class C listed on an RV dealer website and has been looking at it online every day for the past couple of weeks or so.  Today, the listing came up at 5K less than their previously listed price and he decided to go look at it.  If you've read my other couple of posts, you'll know that I'm not convinced that a motor home is a good choice for us, but I'm "open" to consider it.  We're buying used because to get everything we really think we need, the cost would be prohibitive and I think we would have to keep a new one much longer just to offset all that up front depreciation.

Anyway, he likes it and actually put $500 down so they would hold it until I can see it on the weekend.  Sure hope they weren't lying about it being refundable if I don't like it!  Yike!

His description:  It's in good condition with some things we'll want to do to make it more livable.  Update decor, a few minor "household" repairs.  It has a Rhino-like roof.

I looked up the Rhino RV Roof and tried to find something on this site that could give me something to go on here.  Apparently Rhino (the truck bed liner people) came out with a product to cover RV roofs in about 2012.  I found another similar type of roofing repair online and found that it comes with a 10 year guarantee.

A few questions:

Anyone have any experience with these roofing repair products?

When this is done is it common for the "installer" (not sure what to call the people that do this) to remove all of the things on the roof that are typically caulked around, then put them back on and caulk around them? Or do they spray this stuff over the seams between your skylight, vents, A/C, etc.?

If the latter, what do you do when you have to replace the A/C, etc?  Is the warranty on the roofing system voided because of the obvious breach that would occur when removing the component?

Should we consider this a plus?  It wasn't pointed out by the dealer as a selling point - hubby doesn't think they even knew it was other than the standard roof.  He noted it when he climbed the ladder to look at the condition of the roof.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Phyl



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If you start here in the RV-Dreams journal, http://www.rv-dreams-journal.com/2013/11/water-heater-fail-roof-start-jacksonville-florida.html, you will learn that Howard and Linda did this.



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Phyl


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Thanks, Bill.  I checked it out and spent a lot of time reading through older journal entries.  So much info here - nearly overwhelming!  Since it looks like most of these roof systems - and there are several that google pointed me to - mostly come with a warranty on the vehicle not on the owner and are of varying lengths of time - 10 years, 20 years, 30 years.  It would be nice to know which one it is and when it was done before we take the plunge.  I think we'll see if Camping World will try to put us in touch with the previous owners of this RV to determine if there's some paperwork to go with it, and ask a few other questions about the rig too.



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Personally I would be more worried about does the fridge work properly, whats the ask price verses open market prices is it a high or low miler?
does the unit show any water damages anywhere, does the toilit hold water, have the grey and black tank been cleaned properly over the years,
Are the TV updated(assuming its older than 2007 era) what age and wear on the Tires? what age and condition are the brakes in? is the alinement look good(tire wear) the roof as long as its not leaking and appears to be sealed properly etc is your least worrys

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