What TT would you buy for 5k

[Riverboy]

I just stumbled across this unit. It is a pop up but larger then most. @JMetzger, it seems some good ol trailers are out there without dropping big money, no apology needed. What do you guys make of this?



Jayco Tent Trailer

 

[Jim W]

Hi,

It is hard to tell from just pictures shown on the internet on how good a buy this unit is. The first thing to ask your self is, will this unit satisfy you and your wife for a few years? If so then this may get you into camping for now.

I would look the unit over very very carefully to insure their is no water issues or other hidden issues.



When we bought our Starcraft 8 (used) the canvas would leak right at the joint where the roof and the canvas meet. This is why the owner got rid of the unit. I remove the canvas and fix the roof leak to eliminate the moister problem.



We had the unit for 6 years and travel from Colorado to the MI UP. We sold the unit for the same price we bought the camper 6 years earlier. Never could do that again, but this was one of the best units and times we had camping with the kids in my opinion.



What I pull now I would not consider camping per say it is just a different way to see the country and enjoying the outdoors easier.

Jim

 

[RustyJC]

We started RVing in 1990 with a 1979 Jayco Cardinal tandem-axle pop-up. That old tank was the largest pop-up Jayco built and slept 8 people!! The roof and canvas had just been replaced by the Amish (we lived in Ohio at the time), and we picked it up for $2,500. We camped in it 6 years, and all I ever had to replace was 1 tire that threw a tread on a summertime trip across Texas - we pulled that thing from Lake Erie to the Rio Grande several times. When we moved on to a 5th wheel in 1996, we sold the Jayco pop-up for $2,450.



Total cost of ownership - $50 and 1 tire. :-laf



We still talk about the trips we made in that Jayco. As far as I know, the young couple we sold it to may still be using it.



Rusty

 

[Grizzly]

Rusty, that reminds me of my first camper. In the mid 70's when we had one toddler and a set of new born twins, I purchased a used 1968 10. 5' Travel Queen truck camper for my F250 Ford gasser. It was a great camper. I paid $1,550 for it and traveled many miles and made many weekend camping trips with it. Fifteen years later I sold it, in great shape, for $1,500. It way outlasted the Furd.



Cost of 15 years of satisfied ownership was $50. 00.



george