[Ronald]

I love my 1998 Featherlight conversion. Jim of VIP is my consultant. Cost is $5500 per year and he is available by phone 24 hours a day. For the first 6 months, I called all the time and he was so patient working through issues with me. 90 percent of my issues were “operator error” and I learned so mucy.

I keep his service as I have things pop up time to time. I really don’t know how a newbie could get through the learning curve, if there was not one on call.

[Bill]

Technically, I am on my 3^rd Featherlite. I moved from a Featherlite Vogue 5000 to a 2000 H3-45. My current coach is a 2006 H3-45. Needless to say, I like Featherlite coaches and have been a satisfied owner. I have also used Jim Marsh of VIP Luxury Coach Consulting for the past 5 years. I can’t say enough about his expertise. Obviously, I don’t call him as often as I did initially, but I still do call; this week in fact. I also used him to do the pre-buy inspection on my current coach. If you get serious about a Featherlite, I suggest you give him a call. The other Featherlite go-to guy is Donnie Myers. His shop is full of former Featherlite employees who probably built the coach you are considering. I have been very pleased with Donnie’s work, both the general maintenance and the upgrades. Feel free to give me a call: Six 6 2-Three 4 One – Two 3 Hundred

[Roscoeapproved]

Thanks for the info and the offer. I’ll see how things shake out this weekend. I’m eyeballing a Marathon of the same vintage in SoCal but we spend a lot of time traveling AZ, Vegas, etc. in the heat of summer. Roof airs and/or OTR is my preference. I keep reading about Cruiseairs locking up in dry heat and the Marathon only has the Cruiseair.

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Jeff and Lindsay

91 Marathon XL

[Brady]

Get a coach with Roof Airs!

[Kirby]

Keep in mind Cruiseairs are significntly quieter than roof airs. Makes a big difference in the bedroom when you are trying to sleep. Marathon has service centers in Oregon, Texas and Florida. A few 2000 Marathons have OTR ACs.

[Dorel]

L-Series Country Coach conversion have two stage basement air conditioners that are very good at keeping the coach cool. They do not have the problems of CruiseAir and perform well parking or traveling in hot weather.

[Archived]

Our 2000 (1999 chassis) Featherlite Vantare XLV has OTR and 4 roof airs. No doubt the Cruiseairs are quieter than the roof air units but the OTR is the best going down the road. The build quality is excellent and systems are straight forward. Donnie Meyers has helped out with inverter questions. I have been averaging 10k miles each of the 3 years we have owned it.

Good luck in your search,

Doug

[Bernie]

I love my Featherlite H3 wouldn’t have any other conversion if you ask me, build quality is second to non.

[Dorel]

Our newest to us coach is a 2000 Featherlite Vogue (Vantare)two slide. It’s our sixth bus having had three Marathons, a Country Coach XL45 twin HWH slides and a Beaver XL40.

In Our experience each of our coaches we enjoyed. Pretty much any differences are “taste issues”. But the electronics in the 2000 Vogue/vantare are much simpler than similar aged Marathons. We do love cruiseairs, but this coach has fairly quiet rooftops. Our coach is a Featherlite designed slide room system giving us a super slide up front which is 17 ft long. Converter build balancing is excellent with a front axle carrying only 15,950 lbs along with bed slide helping to offset front end weight. similar Marathons we’ve owned front axle was over 17,000 lbs. Having said that, our 2000 non slide Marathon H with generator and two of four cruise Airs loading up front axle to weigh over 17,000 and our 2002 Marathon XLII single slide with cruise airs and genset behind front axle weighed at 17,580.

We hadn’t considered a Featherlite until this riveted, 45 ft, two slide, equipped with full tile floor, roof mounted Girard patio awning came up for sale, and we love it.