RV pricing is it dropping or is this typical?

[BGMAC]

I was scanning through Marketplace this morning to see what’s out there. Kind of like going to yard sales. lol. I noticed some price slashing on new Newmar’s. This go my attention because so many of you guys have them. Is this typical? I’m seeing numbers nearly at the same price of 2023’s and are near the low retail of 2023’s according to JD Power. These prices are way beyond my reach so I never really looked before.

 

[DennisT]

With the economy and downturn in RV sales had heard they were getting close to the 30% discounts again.

The pics look to be around 25% so that would seem to a good starting point for the current marketplace.

 

[Neal]

I was scanning through Marketplace this morning to see what’s out there. Kind of like going to yard sales. lol. I noticed some price slashing on new Newmar’s. This go my attention because so many of you guys have them. Is this typical? I’m seeing numbers nearly at the same price of 2023’s and are near the low retail of 2023’s according to JD Power. These prices are way beyond my reach so I never really looked before.

Have these already been on the lot a year? Were they rejected by the customer? Need to always determine the story behind these. What's left in factory warranty or is it expired already?

 

[Neemer]

I was looking at ‘24 Newmars on NIRVC’s website yesterday. Advertised price was 20% off MSRP. I don’t know if they will go lower.

 

[BGMAC]

Have these already been on the lot a year? Were they rejected by the customer? Need to always determine the story behind these. What's left in factory warranty or is it expired already?

These are my assumptions based on reading between the lines of the add. I don’t know for sure.
1. They have been on the lot for sometime or “sister lots”.
2. I’m not sure why “rejected by customer” would have relivance.
3. Usually (not sure about Newmar) if the unit has never been sold you still have full factory warranty. Is that not correct?

 

[Neal]

I’m not sure why “rejected by customer” would have relivance.

I'm just thinking of @Stuart W's recent story with his Entegra - how does that get handled after him?

Usually (not sure about Newmar) if the unit has never been sold you still have full factory warranty. Is that not correct?

Maybe it triggers off of "in service date" and is not an issue. Let's take an extreme, a brand new 2023 Newmar is still on the lot today. You buy it, do you have a 1 year Newmar warranty in effect or just dealer warranty?

 

[BGMAC]

I'm just thinking of @Stuart W's recent story with his Entegra - how does that get handled after him?

Maybe it triggers off of "in service date" and is not an issue. Let's take an extreme, a brand new 2023 Newmar is still on the lot today. You buy it, do you have a 1 year Newmar warranty in effect or just dealer warranty?

I don’t know @Stuart W story. I’ll have to look for it.

I can only relate warranties with new car purchase and when a bought new 2012 GMC pickup in 2013 I got all the warranty as if I bought it the year it was made.

 

[Joe Hogan]

If a unit has been on a lot for a year or longer, all rubber components have sat mostly still in the elements for that time.
Seals, O rings, filters in systems have not been exercised or had lubricants, operating fluid moved through system, for that time.
Filters have a shelf life.
These rigs are littered with all sorts of valves, check valves etc. just the braking systems have dozens of valves.
Tires have one year less time on them. Tires need to go through heat cycles and movement to replenish protective compounds.
So buying a year old lot unit needs a discount.
Yes there is a warranty but if you are in the boon docks it is a bummer trying to sort these things out.

 

[Joe Hogan]

From my post you can see why we do Factory pickup on new units.

 

[BGMAC]

Thanks guys

 

[Stuart W]

When I was shopping last year I seriously considered 2 motorhomes that had been on the lot for 1.5 years.
One was a 2023 King Aire in Colorado and one was a 2023 Foretravel in Texas. What I discovered was in both units the generators had a lot of hours and the heating and AC was left on continuously due to weather fluctuations. If your not full time that’s several years of wear and tear. Also the tire dates were close to 2 years old, how many times were the batteries left dead and revived?

 

[Stuart W]

The Stuart W story was we had a 2023 DS with so many problems I elected to take huge loss and sold it. So I was convinced by my dealer that Entegra was a better built coach, I was even assured that a special quality control inspection would be done at the factory prior to shipment to the dealer. A month after the ETA date it was shipped to the dealer with several large defects, shower enclosure falling apart, pocket door frozen in the wall, refrigerator door damaged and cabinets damaged as a result of the refrigerator door. We had a 40 day trip to a family reunion. My salesman said no problem just pay us for the coach and when you get back from your trip just drive 350miles and drop it off to us and will get it fixed. Needless to say we canceled our trip and the purchase of this RV.
To Neal’s point it sat on the dealers lot for several months waiting for parts.
As it turns out we dodged a bullet because the 2026 Entegras Class A will be the last Entegras built, the market share is going to be perused by Tiffin.