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American Motorhome's anyone!

Post by ScottyBoy » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:43 pm

My missus has had a great new idea and thats to get a motorhome for the odd weekends away. Now me being me i have skipped through most of them and gone straight to the American Bad Boy's, and im thinking sod weekends away lets go for weeks away,but i know Jack about them. Has anyone got any experience with these that could give me a few pointers please.
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Post by RSVI » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:01 pm

Don't know anything about them apart from some of them can be really BIG

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You could get the RS4 in the back and it'll still be garaged for the insurance company ;)


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Can't really help, did a search and didn't find much in the way of Motorhome forums either.
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Post by tanoga » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:51 pm

Here's one :oops:
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Post by ScottyBoy » Thu Dec 07, 2006 7:58 pm

Cheers Tanoga, actually this helps as i have just joined a forum and this is a topic of discussion, but nobody knows who it belonged to only that its a formula one driver. Now im gonna tell em and they will think im the coolest and all chip in and buy me an RV. Oh yeah you would never get this registered in England as its too big according to DVLA.
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Post by mikeyquattro » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:15 pm

My folks live in one in Spain. Be careful of weight. There is a loop hole in the law as it is a class 4 vehicle, but your only allowed to drive up to 7.5t unless you have a HGV licence, but it's not classed as an HGV so you can drive it!!.
They have a 35ft georgie boy cruisemaster. Spartan chassis, and cummins engine with allison 3 speed auto box. Cummins is the best engine to go for.

My advise is, go for a euro style camper (hymer etc), as it is smaller and more adapted to our roads etc. Plus you will have to book 2 pitches if you go anywhere!!!!!
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Post by SteveH » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:29 pm

Here's one
Corr Blimey 160,000miles 7 year old monster and still £200K. We hired a motorhome in Canada for a few weeks in July, http://pleasureway.com/ford.html it was perfect for two people.
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Post by ScottyBoy » Fri Dec 08, 2006 11:23 pm

Cheers MikeyQ ive looked at the georgieboy's size etc not a prob as i have a class one and used to drive road trains on the continent. Thought about the euro machines but you just dont get the same WoW factor. Any more helpful info you can pass on would be great :thumbs:
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Post by mikeyquattro » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:11 am

Buy a copy of MMM and have a look at what's for sale and which dealer is near you.
Get one with a cummins engine and allison box. Monaco's are nice. Depends on what your budget is.
Dealership aftersales service is <beep>, and parts can take forever to get hold of. Also the build quality is nowhere near as good as a euro van.
Other option is to buy from the states and get it shipped over.

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