OverTheHill
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I'm looking at Prevost 1999 thru 2006 motor homes. What other brands should I be looking at. I understand that Prevost is a chassis and multiple manufacturers buy the Prevost.
Gary RVer Emeritus said:Slides really open up the interior space, avoiding the tunnel-like mid aisle of the non-slide models. You can move around without tripping over the feet of other passengers (or the dog). The drawback, of course, is that it's just one more piece of mechanical gear that can break.
I would think that any coach in the era you are looking at will likely have at least one slide, but Prevost conversions were among the last to embrace slide technology. Now Prevost builds a bus shell with the slide(s) already in place.
As Ernie says, a late model Wanderlodge that has had all the problems corrected is probably as good as any. Caveat Emptor. A war story: We worked in a Maine campground in 2005 and a fellow arrived in a new Wanderlodge 450 Lxi, about 4 months old. A truly gorgeous coach, but a real lemon, he said, having spent most of the previous months in one shop or another. He took his site but couldn't get one of the slides open. Then his power failed, followed by the hot water system. He was on the phone to Bluebird constantly and they told him to bring it to a dealer. Then the coach wouldn't start, and he through up his hands in despair and abandoned it there. Just got in his Lexus (with his wife) and drove away. A week later Bluebird sent a tech to get it going but he could not, so it ended up being towed away. Never heard the final results, though. Typical or just one bad apple? I can't say.