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Non Slide vs Slides
Owned both, but now with 13 degrees temp outside non slide Bus stays much, much warmer inside and with no slide leaks or non operational issue concerns. Also stays much cooler in heat of summer! Just IMOA
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41 Replies
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Hey Steve and Drema,
That coach has wheels, get it to warmer weather PRONTO!!
Going to be 79 degrees in Palm Springs, CA, today……. been shoveling sunshine all week!
Happy New Year!
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Awesome Mark ! Hope 2B outta here soon to shovel with you. Happy travels.
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Hi Steve, mine is a non slide bus with no plans to add them. I’m thinking about adding a grill though!
Seriously though your points are good ones and I for one like to have the same space when I’m underway and my wife can move now again without the fear of breaking a leg.
Harry
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Over the years we have had no slides, 2 slides, 4 slides and back to 2 slides. I personally, (and I did say personally) would not enjoy a coach as much without slides. Love the extra room when they are out and can still enjoy the bus if they have to be in for any reason.. I don’t feel like we sacrifice any space having slides when they have to be in… such as a rest area… everything still works as it should, nor do we ever have an issue with heating or cooling with the slides out, so it’s slides for us all the way. Just our personal preference !! Also with an H we have more storage than we need so we are not sacrificing anything for the addition of slides.
Cheers, Diane
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I would personally rather have 2-slides and my wife would personally rather have no slides.
Guess which kind of coach we have 🙂
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Obviously Tim your vote doesn’t count.(-:……….nor does mine
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We do not have a slide coach and have never owned one with slides. I do know this though; a double slide would be all I would ever consider b/c I would never give up OTR air.
I love the fact that I could get a king bed in a double slide coach instead of a queen. However, for what it would cost to have our exact coach except in a double slide, I would rather keep the money instead of have the square footage.
With that said, we use our coach on the road and mainly for weekend trips. It may be a different story if I spent weeks at a time in it.
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I understand Prevost went through several generations of slides. Are the early slides, say 2001-2004, troublesome? I like the un-EPA-molested Series 60 in those years, would not mind slides if they are reliable.
Gerald
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Hey Truk, you asleep? Thought he’d have chimed in by now being the non-slide expert that he is. And, of course Nancy could also post the opposing view. Just saying…..Geo.
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We don’t need no stinking slides, nice try Geo you trouble maker, enjoy the balmy weather in WI..
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Note to TOM…Never had a “stinkin’ slide”… what ever did you do to make a slide stink?? Just askin’!!??
Our ’98 Vantare H3-45 had HWH slides with D-seals that were easy to replace if need be… they worked well and parts were easy to get as hundreds of RVs have HWH slides.
Our 2005 has Prevost installed slides and they work very well but have the inflatable seals which are a PIA if they rupture so I hear.
There’s always a price to pay for “bells & whistles” no matter what they are…my motto is… just get what you want and enjoy it… if it breaks fix it and go on down the road. Been there and done that many times.
Cheers, Diane
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Gerald, it seems that the bugs with the early generation slides were worked at at the service center level because we rarely hear of issues with slides now. When they were first introduced it was common to see several slide coaches at service centers being serviced with slide issues.
All slide coaches will require some maintenance such as slide seal replacement, and if a control fails it is a pricey repair or replacement, but keep in mind that is well compensated for by a much lower initial cost of the coach.
I believe the EGR coaches started with 2004 or 2005.
Jeff and Lindsay
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Slides? Yes we have one slide, it’s under the generator, and it’s manual, and is all of the slide risk I prefer. “Automatic” and “reliable” are mutually exclusive in my world. Just totally personal paranoia.
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As someone that has had to tolerate a mountain of abuse because I went with a no rivet slide coach all I can say is that how you use a coach makes all the difference in the world, especially with respect to slides.
Prior to getting slides we were rarely in one spot for any length of time, and if we were it was because we were only using the coach as a place to sleep such as when we did trade shows. Slides make no sense if we move often or if we used it mostly to sleep and have coffee in the morning.
But our use of the coach changed from that type of use to going to rallies or vacation venues where we were in one spot for days and we were not away from the coach all day, every day. Even though slides require some maintenance it is a price we are willing to pay because the extra room makes a serious difference in how we can move about the coach. The ironic part of the switch from a non-slide to a slide coach was the things we never expected but got with the bargain. The XLII compared to the XL is much quieter going down the road even though I expected more noise because of the slides. The windows are thermopane so the coach is much easier to keep warm and sitting near a window no longer means I feel the cold air spilling from the windows.
I do not like the extra weight. I do not like the loss of storage, especially in the height of the bays, I do not like the potential for a slide seal leak. But all of those objections are more than offset by how nice the extra room makes it easy to live in.
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I’m on Team Truk.
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