When do you stop making mods?

[Veebyes]

Every year I seem to be putting a couple grand into it between truck & trailer. 11 years, almost 200,000 truck miles, near 100,000 trailer miles & near 1600 nights on the road.

This year it is Timbrens shocks for the truck in addition to its annual overhaul of bushings etc. The trailer is headed for some spring hanger replacements, upgrades, & already planning on next year reducing from a king bed to a queen sized & getting a sleep number mattress.

It does not stop. The only thing slowing me down is the Finance Department at The Admiralty.

[ctilsie242]

I plan to make mods until I sell my rig, even if it is just something to make the next owners' lives easier. That, or until the hearse comes by.

[Grit_dog]

wa8yxm wrote:
Most folks stop making "Mods" at one of two points..

3 days before they sell it
3 days before "Brothers and sisters we are gatherd here today to remember our dearly ......

Well you won't be hearing that line anyway no no point finishing ti .. May it be in the far. far future.

^ Best answer.

[sandblast]

mockturtle wrote:
When you get a life.

LOL, Mockturtle, you are toooo baaad !

[wa8yxm]

Most folks stop making "Mods" at one of two points..

3 days before they sell it
3 days before "Brothers and sisters we are gatherd here today to remember our dearly ......

Well you won't be hearing that line anyway no no point finishing ti .. May it be in the far. far future.

[ppine]

There is treatment for that affiliction.
Buy the truck and trailer you want and stop trying to make them into something they are not. Maintenance is important. Mods are not if you have the right equipment.

[ScottG]

When you run out of imagination.

[Matt_Colie]

When you start with where we did with this coach, mods can go on forever. But, with a 40+ year time, of course some things have been improved. Like, electric lights for example. 😉

Matt

[mockturtle]

When you get a life.

[jplante4]

Normal maintenance never stops. I have a list of mods I want to do and a couple of things get done off that list every spring. I'm spending about $5k a year, doing a lot myself. I'm happy with that.

[Veebyes]

Maintenance is fixing what goes wrong & restoring to original. Mods are taking what is & making it better or adding something. In my case by far the effort has gone into frame & running gear mods, almost all in the area of springs, leaf added, spring hangers & spring hanger area reinforcement to make up for frame builder deficiencies.

Lucky for us over the years we have looked at many newer 5ers & have not seen anything that we would consider sell our Alpenlite for.

[SoundGuy]

The problem with mods is that depending on how they're executed some are difficult to totally impractical to remove later when you sell the unit. I'm as guilty as anyone, having modded the life out of every camper we've ever owned, some ultimately not so good, others that proved in time to be invaluable, BUT if there's ever another "next" camper for us I'll keep the mods to a minimum and those that I do go ahead with will when possible be designed so as to be easily removable later. Case in point - I've always installed a powered potable water transfer system on any trailer we've owned, next time it'll be portable with the pump mounted in a case of some sort, totally separate from the trailer itself. Same with any inverter I might want to use - portable. At least my hard wire EMS I was smart enough to install so it can be instantly removed at any time. :B

[suprz]

I keep up with the maintenance each spring. As far as mods... I just modify what is needed for our comfort and safety, we don't have to have a lot of gadgets, etc...

[colliehauler]

I keep my RV'S so long I have to update technology every so often. I heavily modified when I purchased it new so maintenance is about all I need.

[SidecarFlip]

Modifications or maintenance? Maintenance is ongoing, mods are not.