Hi, all,
I haven't actually seen this trailer yet so my 2 questions are (a) is it worth going to look at (about a 3-hour drive r/t and plenty of other ways I'd rather spend my time if it's not a good trailer) and (b) what should I ask about/look for when looking at it.
We are a family of 3 (2 adults 1 kid) looking to start traveling with the plan of doing this part-time (a few week-long trips) for a year and then hopefully 1 year of full timing across the US. We're reasonably handy and reasonably good at "roughing it," but not looking for problems and would like a rig where our adult kids or other friends could join us. We'll be pulling with a Toyota Tundra 5.7 4wd / 10,000# towing cap and ~1500# carrying cap.
The rig is visible here: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/rvs/1671886014.html. I've emailed the seller who tells me that he couldn't find the specs but went and weighed the trailer and that it's got a 5500# weight, 800# tongue weight.
Thoughts/comments/concerns? Thanks in advance for any you can offer. We hope to find a used trailer with about this layout for no more than $10K (recognizing that older rigs will cost less but may be more "used up."
I haven't actually seen this trailer yet so my 2 questions are (a) is it worth going to look at (about a 3-hour drive r/t and plenty of other ways I'd rather spend my time if it's not a good trailer) and (b) what should I ask about/look for when looking at it.
We are a family of 3 (2 adults 1 kid) looking to start traveling with the plan of doing this part-time (a few week-long trips) for a year and then hopefully 1 year of full timing across the US. We're reasonably handy and reasonably good at "roughing it," but not looking for problems and would like a rig where our adult kids or other friends could join us. We'll be pulling with a Toyota Tundra 5.7 4wd / 10,000# towing cap and ~1500# carrying cap.
The rig is visible here: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/rvs/1671886014.html. I've emailed the seller who tells me that he couldn't find the specs but went and weighed the trailer and that it's got a 5500# weight, 800# tongue weight.
Thoughts/comments/concerns? Thanks in advance for any you can offer. We hope to find a used trailer with about this layout for no more than $10K (recognizing that older rigs will cost less but may be more "used up."
