Skookum
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We're on a couple-week trip here in the Southwest and dealers down here have big inventory of a coach we've been pining after. We bought our '06 Seneca in late 2018 and have enjoyed the heck out of it, but we bought older and lower-cost not knowing how "invested" we'd become in RV'ing. Uh...we're hooked. And we eventually want newer/nicer. The new Senecas we're looking at are pretty much the same layout and concept, with increased dimensions where it matters to us. It's very tempting to go look at them...
I'm not sure whether to sell ours private-party or trade it in. (06 Jayco Seneca 34SS HD, 62k miles) NADA says low retail is about $60k and average $73k, so I have to imagine a ballpark trade would start around $45k and work up from there. I think we'd be waiting quite a while for a cash buyer to show up on a private sale, and/or they'd need to show up with their own financing, tough on an RV that old and costing that much. It seems if people can get decent financing, they buy much newer.
We did buy our old coach through a dealer and they were OK to work with. We have never purchased a new RV, however. I'm not sure whether we should only be looking locally (at home) for the service and relationship of a nearby dealership for warranty purposes, or if buying out-of-state comes with any disadvantages or disadvantages. Thoughts?
Does anyone know of any issues with trading an out-of-state diesel motorhome into a California dealer? I thought I read somewhere some new regs about bringing in older diesels from out of state. I'm sure a dealer could answer that but knowing in advance may mean not even thinking about this until we're home.
I'm not sure whether to sell ours private-party or trade it in. (06 Jayco Seneca 34SS HD, 62k miles) NADA says low retail is about $60k and average $73k, so I have to imagine a ballpark trade would start around $45k and work up from there. I think we'd be waiting quite a while for a cash buyer to show up on a private sale, and/or they'd need to show up with their own financing, tough on an RV that old and costing that much. It seems if people can get decent financing, they buy much newer.
We did buy our old coach through a dealer and they were OK to work with. We have never purchased a new RV, however. I'm not sure whether we should only be looking locally (at home) for the service and relationship of a nearby dealership for warranty purposes, or if buying out-of-state comes with any disadvantages or disadvantages. Thoughts?
Does anyone know of any issues with trading an out-of-state diesel motorhome into a California dealer? I thought I read somewhere some new regs about bringing in older diesels from out of state. I'm sure a dealer could answer that but knowing in advance may mean not even thinking about this until we're home.
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