RV value?

[rjshiflet]

Also check out PopSellsRV - (https://www.popsells.com/rvs-for-sale) - for price comparisons. This company will list your RV and advertise it and assist with the sale for a 10% commission (at least that's the number I remember when we used them). They allow you to continue advertising it yourself (FB Marketplace, local classifieds, etc.) and if you sell it yourself, you owe them nothing. If they sell, they handle the payment, deduct their percentage and pay you the remainder.

In our case, they showed ours two or three times, but we wound up selling it on FB Marketplace and owed nothing to them despitie their ads in RV Trader and other areas.

Even if you don't choose to use them, it can be a great source of info for pricing your rig.

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

Aren’t aircraft tires hand made?

"Individually made" would be a more accurate term, but yes. Airplane tires are carefully engineered for the unusual stresses of landing, takeoff, and high altitude effect on pressures & temperatures. Each new tire is carefully built (molded) to spec and tested to high quality standards. It's a very low volume assembly & test process.
You may be surprised to learn that most of the tires in use on commercial jets are retreads. The tread surface gets a lot of abuse in landings so re-treading is standard practice, with most big plane tires going through several retreadings before the body casing is discarded.

 

[UTTransplant]

Pretty much everything on an airplane is from a low volume manufacturing facility. I know; I managed some aircraft electronics program that had those manufacturing lines. I had what was sometimes considered a relatively high volume product line where we made 50-60 radios a month! Low volume lines made 10-20 a month. The products weren’t hand built, but they were tested extensively to make sure they met the specifications. High volume manufacturing is thousands to hundreds of thousands of products a month. The quality is more baked in than tested in because, well, volume! You can fine tune a product very cost effectively when the cost is being spread over hundreds of thousands of units. And it is this comparison that escapes those people who think an RV should have the quality of a passenger car.

 

[garyb1st]

I've been looking at Facebook Marketplace for motorhomes and used trucks. They have a large number of units for sale. Most are for sale by private party. The site can not be ordered so it pretty much requires starting at the top and scrolling through the entire list. That said, you can search by general category. For example, diesel motorhomes. If nothing else, it will give you a sense of what others around the country are asking for similar units. It's been a while but PPL used to have a list of sold motorhomes which showed the selling price. If they still do, I would look at that list. Selling price is what you should be looking at not list price. You can also check what dealers are asking for similar units. Take those prices and discount them by maybe 15 to 20% which will probably get you close to a for sale by owner price.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

Mileage isn't the sole metric of maintenance. Having run my share of voting age vehicles I've learned to mostly ignore the odometer - they need pretty much everything gone through and often preemptively replaced. To be sure a low mileage chassis is a good starting point but it's going to need a lot of attention to make it roadworthy. Not that it would be a dealbreaker but especially for someone that doesn't do their own work it would be a spendy proposition to farm out. As a workhorse chassis owner I would never get another one, parts are a problem and I don't love it that much. Whoever picks this one up either knows what they're in for, or will quickly discover it.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[Isaac-1]

To follow up on Mark's point, I have owned a 2002 Workhorse P32 coach for almost 10 years now, and there certainly has been an increase in the number of parts that are no longer available, though there are work arounds for many, but not all of them, so far what I have ran into is mostly discontinued hoses, and such requiring replacements to be custom fabricated or adapted. I also know that sooner or later if I keep this coach I may find myself in need of some unobtainable part, with the P32 the big unobtainable item is the front spindle assemblies, so I try to make sure to carefully keep an eye on my front wheel bearings, and grease them every 7,500 miles.