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OK First Question
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Brett, We plan to full time “any day” as I retired and left DC earlier this month. I thought the same thing and then visited with several couples at the seminar who full time and don’t want slides. My wife has convinced me we don’t need slides due to the loss of space, maintenance on Prevost slides, and weight. Jon is right about an H, the only issue although the bay’s are great and have more room, usually your front axle weight will limit what you can carry anyway. One of the PC members refuses to ever get slides and convinced us as we sat in his coach all you gain is a little more aisle space … Again, this administrator, I mean PC member, will remain anonymous. But it is true, non slide new coaches are a thing of the past. N
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Tim,
I agree with Mr. Wilbur…. Just gives you more walkin around room,. Any way where I grew up at” the slides” are bad… Whether you got ice on the road, our ate too any greens. I intend to avoid both…… -
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There are some pre-2000 Prevosts with slides. California Coach Co has a 97 H3 with two slides. Seems a bit high-priced, but maybe a reflection of having slides. The only thing would be that they would not be factory Prevost slides. You may want to do some research on non-Prevost slides before going that way. -
We get a laugh when a bus ad states, tires were new in 2009, ya guess they had to be new sometime. Or “coach was recently serviced”. Then one of the photos shows a tag/card/hand written on filtersd in engine compartment showing a date “years” old. We copy photos s then blow them up to see detail. Invariably smallsd items in blown up photos can show tire cracking or cracked belts or even crazed paint
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I agree on the H having more room, nd tha tis what we have been looking at. I really like the XLII body lines though. As for no slides, that aint gonna happen..lol We have been in four slides so long that getting momma to go to two is gonna be a job. Going to zero is non-existant…lol and you know what they say about momma. we actually like our plastic coach pretty good even though I have always wanted a Prevost. I know it’ard sell to convince “bus” owners that plastic high end coaches are pretty good….LOL
We are just looking, and I am dreaming. Maybe someday, but you have to start looking sometime. There is actually one on the big auction site, ller is the rudest guy I ever tried to talk to. My appologies if it is anyone on here or if you know him. But he sent me an email and flat out said he didn’t have time to answer questions or go through the “meticulous records”..LOL
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What do they say?
“Run Forest, run”!!
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Brett…
I think the California Coach that Per mentioned is a 1998 H3-45 Vantare with 2 slides… That was our old coach and the slides are built by HWH and are very good slides… we were told by HWH that our coach was the first H3-45 with slides… and you will find that all H series coaches had HWH or another brand up until 2005 when Prevost installed their own slides in an H3-45 for the first time… may have been in late 2004… not the same as the XLs which had Prevost slides much earlier.
Hope this helps sort things out a bit.
Cheers, Diane
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Well, Brett, sounds like you dodged a bullet and saved a bunch of money in the process! Congrats.
On another note, we went from 4 slides on the plastic coach to 2 on the bus. I think it helps a lot, but I do like to kick out the foot rest on the chair while watching TV, and Natalie and Ian will usually fold out the couch and lay together. No way to do that without slides. Also, I like to cook and I use every square inch of space in the kitchen. Tighter is not better.
It still seems as if it is a little tight in the bedroom but at least it is manageable. I can’t imagine having in there what we’ve got without a slide.
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Depending on the size of one’s wallet Prevost coaches range from no slides to 4 slides.
There is no way to compare a Prevost with a conventional motor home except that they are both big and have round tires. I never owned a conventional motor home and my first RV was a 1987 Prevost. It was relaxing to drive and tracked very well down the highway. My 1997 Prevost was even better. Handling and driving was better. My present coach is better yet, something I never thought possible. It is hard to explain but it tracks down the highway as if it is on rails.
I had no reference point until I had an opportunity to drive what many people have told me was a top of the line conventional RV with multiple slides. My first reaction was concern about the noises. It appeared everything was squeaking, groaning and rattling as we drove down the road. When the RV went over bridge expansion joints the cabinets overhead the driver shook to the point I was concerned they might come down. But the bottom line for me was how hard I had to work to keep the coach in its lane of traffic. The crown of the road made it want to drift to the right. Passing trucks caused it to be drawn closer to the truck, and then pushed away from the truck. I was working the steering wheel so much I could only imagine how worn out I would be after a few hours of driving.
Recently I saw a TV show that features very expensive RVs and their construction. I was shocked to see that the sidewalls were bolted or screwed to the flat floor of the chassis. Now I know when there is an accident why the RVs disassemble themselves. I am used to knowing I am sitting in a fully welded cage structure that is not dependent on how well the upper house portion is fastened to the wood floor.
This may be harsh, but conventional RVs cannot be compared to a Prevost conversion that is the result of billions of miles of refinement in commercial service and is built to go 100,000 miles per year often racking up a couple of million miles before being removed from all service.
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