Update
Wow, so I made it home in one piece.
The Good
-I've already been tinkering this weekend. Walmart has proven to be pretty good. I picked up a complete sony stereo and 4 sony speakers for $80 bucks. Yes I did say $80 bucks. Now, not only can I jam to tunes, but I can also jam to my IPOD/IPHONE... Sweet!
The Bad
- I was 90% of the way home and all of a sudden the cruise control stopped working. I think this may possibly be related to the fact that the brake pads may be low. (They did squeek ALOT in stop and go traffic).
-So now I'm trying to do the cost/benefit analysis whether I should invest my time and change the brakes and the oil myself, or let the only commercial/rv service place near me do it for like $320 bucks. Tough call.
-I spent a couple hours when I got home SILENCING all the squeeks, pings, knocks, and other random sounds that seem to appear out of every orifice. I bought weatherstripping to silence the metal window shades banging on the metal window sills, I bought felt pads to reinforce all the other felt pads on all the cabinets. My wife got some sweet drawer/cabinet liners to soften any noise coming from stuff in them. I'm pretty sure there will be more random squeeks and noises, but the most annoying ones are fixed! I guess that's the difference between a $25,000 RV and a $250,000 RV. I'm not so sad though, cuz this thing is going to be AWESOME!
THE UGLY:
- When the time comes, I hope the septic process is actually fairly easy and relatively inexpensive. I bought it from a non-RV dealer, and I didn't really get a complete walkthrough of all the systems, so I may be asking somebody to help me out and show me how to USE this thing before the season starts, or at last resort, on the first NESBA weekend. For now the RV is winterized, so obviously none of that stuff works now. Although just for the hell of it my wife and I ate dinner in it last night and we ran out of soda, and I asked her if she wanted "Pink Lemonade". (Is that an RV inside joke?)
After all was said and done, I got 9 MPG on that beast over the trip when I did 60 MPH. On one of the stretches, I did 65 and I got like 7.8 MPG. Not exactly the greatest, but I can live with it. And Gasoline is much cheaper than Diesel. (besides the cost difference in the motor)
I'm not sure of my towing capacity. I am thinking around 4000 pounds. The V10 has plenty, PLENTY of juice in it. I'm not sure it's worth it when I've got a full size garage! :-D Now I have to get to installing my PitBull Trailer Restraints.