First RV report, a 2020 Class C bought off lucas-motors.com

congrats, a class c on the E450 is exactly the right first rig for weekends with little kids. it drives like a big van, you can park it at home in most driveways, and the bunk over the cab is a fort as far as the kids are concerned. mine are grown now but that is the setup we started on and the memories from those trips are the ones they still bring up.

one tip, keep a plastic tote by the door with the dumb stuff you always forget, leveling blocks, a short water hose, a flashlight, bug spray. saves you a late night run into a dark town your first few trips. you are going to have a blast.

a weak battery and a broken cabinet latch on a 19k mile Freelander is a nothing list, that is a clean inspection result. swap the battery, grab a latch off amazon for a few bucks, done in an afternoon. honestly getting a real inspection before you bought is the part most first timers skip and then regret, so you already did the hard thing right.

the E450 with the V10 is a workhorse, parts and service everywhere. couple of things to put on your radar as the coach ages, keep the roof sealant checked twice a year and touch it up where it cracks, that is the number one thing that kills these campers slowly. and when you store it, pull that house battery or put it on a tender over winter so you are not buying another one in the spring. do that and it will give your family years.

same thing i told ray in his thread, check your tire date codes. a 2020 coach with low miles almost always has original rubber and motorhome tires age out before they wear out. look at the four digit code on the sidewall, if they are getting near six years old put a set in the budget before any long trip. on a class c that also rides your front end a lot nicer.

and do yourself a favor before the first trip with the kids watching, take it to an empty parking lot on a sunday morning and practice backing into a spot a few times. put your spouse out as a spotter and agree on hand signals so nobody is yelling at a campsite with an audience. every one of us learned that one the hard way. welcome to it, the E450 class c is how a lot of good families got started.

so happy you did it megan. you sounded exactly like me in rays thread, all the what ifs at midnight, and look at you now with the title in hand. i have decided the worrier always makes the best prepared rv owner because we are the ones who actually read the manual and get the inspection instead of winging it.

do not let the first trip hiccups rattle you, there will be a few, a fuse or a stuck shade or forgetting to latch something. that is just the learning curve, not a sign you bought wrong. ray and i are a full season in and still find a new switch now and then. give those kids my best, the cabin on wheels is the sweetest name ive heard for one.

adding this one to the new buyer sticky alongside rays winnebago thread. two families, very different rigs, same exact process, and both of them happy a season later. that is the pattern we want people to see when they land here scared at midnight.

for anyone finding this later, the short version both threads agree on, pull the history, get an independent inspection where the coach sits, watch the real walkthrough video, and buy from a company you can actually call. megan went from the most nervous poster on the board to swapping her own battery in a driveway. go have a great first full summer, the cabin on wheels is going to be the backdrop of a lot of good years.