Slide vs No-Slide

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Ron, there are several topics that get Prevost owners excited. You happened to bring up one of them.

I am a no slide coach guy for three basic reasons. We do not use our coach as a primary or second home parked in an RV resort as our home base. If we did our attitude about this reason would change. We use our coach to travel and to attend rallies. As a result a slide has much less importance than to someone who would enjoy the extra space in the living area.

We do not want the extra complexity of a slide. All slides require maintenance, typically occasional seal replacement, and that is an expense we don't need, nor do we want to be exposed to the costs if the slide needs adjustment or service.

Finally, and this is my personal opinion, I am uncomfortable with cutting openings through the main longitudinal structural member of the bus. It was not designed for slides, so when the main backbone of the bus on one side is cut to create an opening, despite the fact a lot of reinforcement is added back in, I just feel uncomfortable knowing a critical structural element of the bus has been comrpomised.

But if you want or need a slide and you are OK with all aspects of slide ownership ignore all of us who do not have slides. It's your money, its your choice, and it would be terrible if you bought a non slide coach and hated it. There is no justifiable reason to buy a Prevost, so when you get silly like the rest of us, make sure your purchase is what you want.

[phorner]

Ron,

We have had coaches with one slide, two slides and our last coach, a 2003 Beaver, had three slides.

One of our priorities when moving up to a Prevost was to be slide free. We are VERY happy with our non-slide XLV.

A lot will depend on how you use your coach and how important it is to be just as comfortable at a rest or fuel stop as you are in a resort.

We also live in our bus full time.

Good luck and enjoy the experience!!

[dale farley]

Paulette would love to have 5 slides in our bus. I would like to have 1 slide if someone else would pay for it and if it came with a gurantee that is would never malfunciton or leak.

[sawdust_128]

We went through the process of acquiring our first rig.

No slides because:

1. no worrying about slides.
2. no working around slides when they can't be deployed.
3. 45' coach has enough limitations as to sight availability without adding the need to accomodate slides as well (we all seem to suffer scratchanoia and dinganoia at some level and all suffer severe bashaphobia).
4. didn't want to give up the additional Cargo Capacity that slides consume.
5. We don't stay at any one place for too long.
6. no working on slides when they don't work (stuckoutanoia).
7. no paying for slides (upfront and maintenance and repair)(costophobia).

On the silly side, remember the universe is expanding so much it will turn into nothing. It could happen to your coach.

[jello_jeep]

Another thing to think of, is if you park where the ambient temperature is above or below the normal range, you are multiplying the number of cubic feet you have to either heat or cool by a significant amount.

If it gets too far over 100, you will never be able to cool it with the cruise/roof airs that came with it.. It is somewhat easier to heat it in my opinion, as there are more options.

I am in the no slide crew in case you can't tell.

The other nice thing is, if you pull into a rest area or truckstop for a break, you have availability to everything as normal. Slides cover stuff up when they are not deployed

But I have to admit, when parked in mild weather, they have their own appeal..

I am still a no-slider for now anyway!

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Ron, maybe we need to poke a stick at the slide folks to wake them up. I cannot believe none of them have jumped into this and defended their choice of slides.

The reality is the whole market is gravitating towards slides and those of us without are either going to have very valuable and desirable coaches in the near future, or we are going to have dinosaurs nobody wants.

[sawdust_128]

Well said Gary!!

[jack14r]

I have had 2 Prevost with both having 2 slides and have never had a problem or any maintenance.I would only buy Prevost slides because I feel that they will always be there for service and they designed the slide to be a part of the shell.If you are looking for a newer coach it is hard to find one that does not have slides,the majority of XLs will be non slide coaches.I attend events for 5-7 days and slides are great for us.