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shanebevel
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Topic: Shopping campers... Posted: 13 Jul 2015 at 1:13am |
Hey guys, so we ended up buying it for $16,500 here in Tulsa. The ohio dealer wanted $1550 plus $1100 in delivery. So the local guys win. Makes me happy.
Anyhow, there's more storage in it than we first thought. So far it has not left the drive (I had to work this weekend) But we did spend a lot of time in there this weekend cleaning, reglueing trim pieces that fell off on the way to the house from the dealer (I will never understand how RV companies can get away with the quality assurance that they have) and sorting out the storage.
The clothing situation was solved by paying attention to how we packed the underside areas and leaving the area under the lower bunk for nothing but clothes and the grill stand (I am working on another place for it too)
Here's a photo of our first "camp" location. Fits right in huh? ha! It actually looks great next to the house and takes up less room than my pop up did. Being able to just walk out there and go inside is awesome.
Things already on order are the manchester two tank LP kit. leveling blocks, water filter, eBags packing cubes, second battery. To follow shortly are the small "fly awning," a cover (suggestions?) and maybe some more baskets/hooks for the garage wall area.
Thanks for your help, we love it and are headed out with it on Friday for a local destination somewhere.
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 2:49pm |
Originally posted by shanebevel
Yeah for sure. For instance I think we quickly came to the realization that we have no need for a microwave. Ha. We hardly use the one we have at home! So that will become storage. I wonder if I can buy a matching door for the rest of the interior. That would be nice. |
Just remember it's not just a microwave, it's also a convection oven. Nice to have!
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shanebevel
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 11:28am |
Originally posted by JohnBG
Find a used one in good shape and let someone else take the depreciation hit. Pay cash if you can, payments suck.  |
I had a look around and I can't find a used one any cheaper than the new ones. Certainly not a 182g which is the only floorplan we are really interested it.
State farm is currently financing at 1.99%, we'll finance it, but we have a Miata that doesn't get driven much and needs to be sold. When we do that, the "entertainment" funds will roll over to the camper.
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shanebevel
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 11:24am |
Originally posted by furpod
Do you use your oven at home? The convection side of the convection/microwave is pretty handy, and we use it way more than the microwave side.
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Nope, we don't really. Occasionally we bake some fish sticks for the kid, or make a roast, but those are things we won't cook camping. We are iron skillet kinda folks and try to cook everything in that one skillet when possible. Use a dutch oven too. And the gas grill will get a pretty good workout.
We are big meat/vegetable folks, not much bread or sweets or baking in our life. ha!
The microwave at home is used basically to melt cheese on chips occasionally.
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furpod
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 10:40am |
Originally posted by shanebevel
Yeah for sure. For instance I think we quickly came to the realization that we have no need for a microwave. Ha. We hardly use the one we have at home! So that will become storage. I wonder if I can buy a matching door for the rest of the interior. That would be nice. |
Do you use your oven at home? The convection side of the convection/microwave is pretty handy, and we use it way more than the microwave side.
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JohnBG
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 9:42am |
Find a used one in good shape and let someone else take the depreciation hit. Pay cash if you can, payments suck.
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shanebevel
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 9:38am |
Yeah for sure. For instance I think we quickly came to the realization that we have no need for a microwave. Ha. We hardly use the one we have at home! So that will become storage. I wonder if I can buy a matching door for the rest of the interior. That would be nice.
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Posted: 06 Jul 2015 at 9:00am |
Welcome, lots of stuff you can do mod wise for storage space as well too. Good luck in your search!
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shanebevel
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Posted: 05 Jul 2015 at 10:59pm |
Thanks for that info Doug! Couches came back at $15550 with the R dome! Now that's a price I like! So I basically just forwarded their email to the local dealer... we'll see what they say!
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Posted: 04 Jul 2015 at 11:06pm |
Welcome. Rule of thumb is you can get them down about 1/3 off the original sticker. Go to Couch's web site and get a quote for your model to get an idea of what the lowest price will be.
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