Best place to look for used RV trailers

[Walker]

Where's the best source for finding an older model pull behind RV trailer? I'd like to have atleast a 35'.

 

[Deezul1]

http://www.rvamerica.com/



http://rv.net/



http://www.rvhome.com/





Try the classifieds in these sites

 

[Dkevdog]

It appears you might be in Texas- you should contact Barry. He specializes in this type and class of rig. He might have what you're looking for. He never has what I'm looking for though .



Kev

 

[Okie-Go]

Give Barry a holler! I think he could find what you are looking for if he don't already have it. His webpage is in his sig I think.

 

[merryman]

Walker;

If I were in the market for a used trailer, I would go to one of those places where lots of "snowbirds" spend the winter.

Yuma Az. for example (where I believe Barry said he bought some of his trailers), has an influx every winter of 70 to 80K senior citizens. Of those there are many;

1. Who buy a new trailer while there, and others

2. Who, for reasons of health or what ever are unable to pull their trailer back home to the north country in the spring, so that there is a real surpluss of used trailers there.

I don't really know about Texas in detail, but I do know there are some "snowbird" areas there-----I think Livingston is one, at least on of the "full timer" groups has a headquarters there.

Of course there are such places in Florida also.



Vaughn

 

[Walker]

Thanks fellas. Now, what's the best name brand for a slightly older to later model TT? I did a little looking at the new ones today to get some idea. I was told the Terry's and the Wildcats are the best construction and value for the $. Any input?

 

[merryman]

Now you have stepped into an area that is just like elbows or other anatomical areas---opinions; everyone has one and some are valid, others smell.



Last year, one of the RV rating groups was rating the Nash/Artic Fox the best value in vacation class trailers. Whether such a group has an opinion that is more valid?? Who knows, but one would hope that they would look below the "surface". For most of us looking at trailers is a little like pin the tail on a donkey blindfolded. The lovely "finish" may not tell you what you really ought to know about a rig.

A small example; Some months back on the iRV2 board, some of the guys were complaing about the problem with the ground on their trailers electrical system. More than one of them reported that the main ground consisted of only a self-tapping screw into the frame.

I checked on my Artic Fox and fourn a four inch or so ground bar bolted to the frame near the batteries to which individual ground wires were attached in the same manner as house wiring, and on looking further, I found at least four other places where local electrical devices were seperately grounded by bolts through the frame. , This may be a small thing, but it illustrates some of the kinds of not very noticable things that can seperate the well built from the just as pretty not so well built brands.

One well known brand fiver that I have seen praised on the various boards, has the nice looking moulded front. But when you meet that brand at highway speed, you can often see that that nice looking front is so weak that the wind has it caved in-----you really need to look below the "dress up" stuff, at what the trailer is really made of.



Vaughn

 

[DHawthorne]

Two web sites you might try here in Florida;



www.lazydays.com and www.batesrv.com



this time of year all the snow birds are headed back north after trading in what they came down here with. Lazy Days has a real good selection and will deal on the net.



I also have a 2000 34. 5 fifth I might sell.



Dave

 

[Jack in Alaska]

www.rvtraderonline.com



Try this one also.