How long have you had your current RV?

[Sinton4616]

I was watching videos today on RV buying. One interesting comment was "the average person keeps their RV for 2.5 years." Struck me as kind of odd since we had our for 10+ years before a hurricane destroyed it.

So, how long have you had your current RV?

[jplante4]

NJRVer wrote:
7 years.
Too bad this site doesn't let you set up a poll that would display like a graph to show the age range numbers.

Keep 'em coming and I'll transfer the answers to a spreadsheet and do just that. I'm on the road and sometimes I get bored 🙂

[beemerphile1]

Mine is a 2006, I bought it new in February 2006.

[mdcamping]

First 2 yrs had a popup
Next 11 yrs our first TT
present Hybrid 7 yrs

Mike

[Sillybugs2]

2 years for this one. Previous one we had 6.

[Sinton4616]

Kittykath wrote:
Current unit: 21 hours

This is our 4th brand new camper in 7 years and luckily have never been screwed on the resale. Matter of fact, we made $100 on a 5th wheel after using it for two seasons. Our luck will eventually run out I know, but we are IN LOVE with the new unit we purchased last night. Hope it treats us well, because the layout is ideal for our current style of camping. Yipee skippy!! Tomorrow is our first night out!

Congrats.

[Kittykath]

Current unit: 21 hours

This is our 4th brand new camper in 7 years and luckily have never been screwed on the resale. Matter of fact, we made $100 on a 5th wheel after using it for two seasons. Our luck will eventually run out I know, but we are IN LOVE with the new unit we purchased last night. Hope it treats us well, because the layout is ideal for our current style of camping. Yipee skippy!! Tomorrow is our first night out!

[BarneyS]

Our current trailer is now 14 years old and still works and looks just about as good as it did when new. It has never leaked and has had the air conditioner replaced two years ago.

It still looks great but has done its' last road trip after many years of snowbirding and summer travels. It now sits permanently for use as our summer place as we have given up traveling via RV.

I think just about any RV made today can be used hard but made to last a long time if given enough tender, loving care. 🙂
Barney

[Acampingwewillg]

Tent camped for 6-7 years but I towed a utility trailer with all our junk in it.


Had a small travel trailer (named it the Silver Bullet due to my brushed on paint job), used that for about 2 years.


My current motorhome is a 1996 Vogue, we have owned it since 2002 and no plans of trading any time soon.

[1995brave]

First- 1 day - tent Put it up a big storm rolled in that evening and destroyed it.
Second- 5 years - a pop up
Third- 5 years - a HTT
fourth- 10 years - Class A.

[Veebyes]

If we had not lost the first one to a blowover it would be 12 years. We did replace the lost one with same model. Going strong with over 100,000 miles on it.

[sgfrye]

1st and current TT 14 months. bought it new last year. 33ft rear kitchen non-bunkhouse model that works well for wife and i plus 4 small dogs.

i've done some mods to it with furniture changes etc to make it work better for us.

no plans to sell it or get any other rv barring unforeseen circumstances. we are completely happy with it.

we use it 12 months a year. weekend warriors.

[C_B_]

Current: Cedar Creek-5 years

Previous: Cardinal-10 years


Previous: Jayco-3 years



C.B.

[goreds2]

I have a 1989 Dodge XPLORER RV Class B - Purchased 10/15/10

Fiance' purchased a Class C 2002 Dynamax Carri-go on 5/1/15

[Mickeyfan0805]

Jayco-noslide wrote:
It's good to be pretty sure you want and like what you get or that you will decide to like it for awhile.

This is so true. When we first started, in 2011, we very intentionally bought a trailer that was relatively low budget and easily towed by the Explorer we had at the time. We had never camped before (except for one weekend in a pop-up loaned to us by a friend). Before making a large investment, we needed to 1) Make sure we truly felt camping was for us, and 2) Make sure we knew what we wanted in a long-term purchased.

We used that first trailer for 2 seasons and traded it, 18 months after we purchased it, for what we owed on it (which was our plan). Essentially, we spent $2,500 to rent an RV for 2 seasons before spending $40-$50k on a larger tow vehicle and trailer. 6 years in to a used Suburban 2500 and a new Rockwood 8312SS, we have no intention of moving away from either for a number of years ahead. In the camping realm, it's the best decision we ever made.

[Jayco-noslide]

Doesn't seem like the average is 2.5 years on this forum. But I suspect a lot of youngsters buy RVs without a clue if they will really like it or not. Maybe even a few seniors.