Bruce,

You are correct in that a new buyer who has not found his way here prior to the purchase may expose him or herself to some serious after purchase expenses.

This is especially the case when the decor becomes the deciding factor and the salesman says these are million mile buses without explaining that they reach that milestone by getting good routine maintenance.

The focus is on the cost to own one of these buses. A buyer that does not use all the resources available becomes a test pilot and assumes a lot of risk. A buyer that uses forums like this to learn the market, the specifics about coaches of interest, how to evaluate a prospective purchase, and where to tap into available expertise has saved thousands, and maybe tens of thousands compared to the buyer who has done no homework.

But we on this forum are talking to potential Prevost owners who are in fact doing their homework. Apart from routine maintenance these new buyers will have few if any surprises, and any serious money they spend after the purchase will likely be at their option, not because they overlooked something.

We cannot help those that will not help themselves.

When I bought the first bus there was no resources such as the internet or forums of this type. Before we closed the deal we looked at as many coaches as possible, we visited a converter and asked a lot of dumb questions, I spoke to Harvey Mitchell who sold the coach to the previous owners and who knew the coach very well, and then I had a converter (Don Hoffman of Hoffman Coaches) do a 100% inspection. My wife liked the decor, but I was all over that coach mechanically with Don and it turned out to be a trouble free coach that only required routine stuff.

No mechanical aptitude is required to own a coach, only a willingness to pay attention to details and do some homework.