Z, pay heed to Jerry's words of wisdom. Also try to understand where your head is in this process. If you are buying a coach you intend to keep a long time you have to focus on floor plan and systems because those are the things hardest to change so they have to be exactly what you prefer. If on the other hand you trade often your greatest area of concern is more likely going to be price because when you trade or sell it you want to take the least loss.

No matter what your focus however you need to get the coach that exhibits long term care. These are durable long lasting robust coaches, but like anything else they require maintenance. There has never been a coach put on the market in which the seller has listed as a feature "shitty maintenance". Every coach on the market is always listed as having excellent maintenance or buzz words like "Prevost Maintained". Unless you have the documentation for maintenance in the form of work orders, log books, invoices or the like that you can compare to the recommended maintenance schedule you have to assume you are going to be doing a lot of repairing or replacing and you need to factor that into your financial decisions.

As Jerry said the big ticket items such as tires and batteries are date coded so it is easy to factor the need or cost of them into your financial analysis, but there are many other costs hidden to those who have not done their homework on what constitutes routine maintenance or what the lack of maintenance can have on a coach.

You cannot buy a coach as you describe without doing a detailed inspection. You have to operate every switch, knob and control to make sure stuff works as intended. You need to listen to how often the auxiliary air compressor runs. You need to observe the coach over a couple of days to see if it has "the leans". If you are a gearhead and very comfortable working on things such as a Prevost some of the stuff I mentioned is relatively unimportant in terms of cost and the use of your time, but if you prefer to have others maintain the coach for you those things that are not quite right and in need of fixing can add significantly to your purchase price.

I am sure others on this forum will chime in with their viewpoints. The thing to remember is we are all different and what is very important to you or me in the purchase of a coach may be less important to others. Only you can make the final decision.

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