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Originally Posted by chasedawg
How did you test drive your Jayco? Did you travel to the location to view the condition?
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We bought ours from an out of state dealer sight unseen. I had never driven one like it. I tend to buy a lot of boats from different parts of the country so it didn't really bother me. The rig had 5500 miles on it and will a full coverage extended warranty and being sold by the original Jayco dealer that sold it new I really didn't have a concern. The previous owner took it on 2 trips and stored it inside. It was clean and as described. I was going to fly down to drive it back but with the warranty in place and the cost to fly all 5 of us down plus expenses to bring it back it was not worth it.
I drive an F350 crew cab dually for a daily driver anyhow so driving a big rv did not bother me in the least. It feels just like driving my truck. Just watch the tail swing in tight places.
The extended warranty was great piece of mind and I have certainly got my $50 transfer fee and a whole lot more back from it. About a month after getting it we had to replace the ABS pump and computer module, an $1800 part plus labor. Cost me $50 total! RV's in general have a lot to break as there are so many systems involved. Older rigs can easily eat you alive if you make a bad buy. With ours, it is an 08 and with no mileage on it things still go wrong.
Most of the class C's are gas and 31' or smaller. Not many are made that are the size of ours. Jayco and Dynamax are the 2 brands that I know of that make a larger C diesel these days. A few other brands have but have discontinued them.
Any of the newer C's have 1 piece nose cones on the top which prevents leakage. We did have our roof resealed, it was $175 I think. Even though it was mainly inside the sealant still goes bad.
Book value in general for these doesn't mean much. I look at them by comping them to others in the market. Book on ours is over $110k, but in all reality its an $85k rig.