A really "HOT" moho rig for me will currently have these options:
1. 7.5 ceiling height
1a. one full wall side-out
2. central heat and air plus dash mounted A/C from the engine.
3. side mounted radiators for the engine
4. smart steering wheel with as many buttons on the wheel as possible.
5. smart tire pressure sensors for each tire with heat sensors and audible alerts
6. some sort of little office table or cubby hole with computer key board pull-out. (wi-fi) is now available at almost all RV resorts and truck stops....

a sale is pending on this one, so this link won't last long.
http://motorhomespecialist.rvusa.com....asp?id=369889

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what happened to the ability to "EDIT" a post ?????

7. aftermarket extra cool air-ride seats in leathe matching the decor of the living room for pilot and co-pilot....

 

thats a nice unit right there man..............you goin for it or waitin for the sale pending to maybe end?

edit post clicker not back yet?

 

"sale pending" in this case means the unit is almost sold and somebody dropped a chunk of change to hold it until their financing comes through....

there will be a good selection of these mohos at the dallas RV show at the end of september.... show discounts will be huge, i expect a discount of at lest 25% maybe 30% off of MSRP at the show

thanks for info on the edit post clicker.

 

be careful ya dont buy one that got flooded

 

I've kinda liked the pusher motorhomes and we even found one that would be able to fit the family and everyone would have their own dedicated bed. Too bad I don't have my airbrake license endorsement and really don't feel like doing a re-cert on it every couple of years.

So we settled on a nice 32' travel trailer with more than what what we would ever have wanted.

 

Hi Roadkill,
there are a lot of new motorhomes for sale without air brakes, so if you ever become interested in one again there will be a lot to choose from....



monday my wife and i stopped by our local RV stealership because an internet search suggested that they might be a dealer for a new front engine diesel coach acronym (FRED). darn!, they had one, and 3 hours later i was the new owner of it....
it's much smaller than what we thought we wanted originally, but here's our situation, our 15 yr old son has 3 more years of high school and because of this, even if we retire we won't be able to make extra long trips..... so having a small inexpensive motorhome for the next 3 years makes some sense to us....

i won't get delivery on the new moho until thursday, then on thursday we will be leaving for st. louis, in it, trying it out..... and seeing if we can learn how to enjoy RVing.... we'll also be pulling my wifes front wheel drive car on a master tow dolly....

i'm mad at myself because i don't even know for sure if it has a 5.9 cummins or if it has the new 6.7 ISB.... they gave me a few manuals to read and it doesn't say which engine i have, and i don't have the build sheet yet....
even with a build sheet from the moho manufacturer i still might not know the engine..... one thing i know for sure is it on the freightliner chassis called FRED.... and it drives like a dream and the engine is super quiet cummins with a new 5 speed overdrive allison.....

the moho is called a Tiffin AllegroBay model #32ba (32 feet long)
MSRP list price was 124,853, we bought it for 100,853.00 and financed it at 6.9%....

i've got to go to kansas tomorrow and won't be back until late, then i'm looking forward to 4 day week-end vacation with wifey, kid, and FRED....LOL

here's some pics:

 

here's why i don't know what engine i have. the coach is a 2008 and FREDs are supposed to have the new 6.7 ISP engine.

more confusing pics:


the last pic is not my coach but this is why i got interested in the FRED chassis....12mpg.

 

this old press release suggests the mid-range cummins will be the 6.7 ISB.
Cummins Announces Midrange On-Highway Engines For 2007

i've read in chat groups that the 6.7 weights about 1400 lbs. while 5.9 still weights only 1000 lbs..... (that info is untrustworthy and not verified)
however if true i wouldn't care which engine i got...

both engines have the VRT variable ratio turbos, i know that for sure because mine has an exhaust brake...

 

good job way to go....looks great

I dont know which Cummins ya got either.....wait and see tomorrow I guess

 

review of our first motor home trip.
we logged about 1100 miles. first 600 miles we got 8.6 mpg, second 500 miles we got 10.1 mpg. the reasons for the poorer mpgs on the first tank is because we ran our generator at least 18 hours, we idled the engine a lot, and we drove at about 65 to75 mph on most of the tank..... the second tank of fuel has almost no generator time on it and our mph averaged about 62 mph.

it was 93 degrees in st.louis when we arrived and with these higher temps i don't expect any better mpgs... ambient temps play an important part of mpgs with this motor home because if the engine gets a little hot it triggers a fan clutch that robs engine power big time, when the fan kicks-in it's also is loud.... this fan is so powerful that it even forces a little warm air in the cab at your feet.... thankfully it doesn't run very long, like maybe only half way up a hill.... the fan will also run if you restart your engine, after having it turned off too short a time..... this is not good if you've just pulled off the highway for some icecream to go, because you then need all the power you can get to regain highway speeds... future short stops for me will involve leaving the engine running...

i'm just guessing, but i think cooler temps and an engine that's more broken in will get maybe 11 mpgs..... i don't think i'll ever get 12 mpgs because i'll almost always be pulling a car or some kind of (toad) vehical....

at the RV park where we stayed 3 out of 4 toad vehicals had 4 wheels down...
one of the reasons for this, is that mohos have extra compact extra cool tow bars that tuck away into the coaches rear bumper when not in use.... so the master tow dollie users like me are in a minority.... for me to tow with 4 wheels down on my wife's car would require adding a continous duty transmission fuild pump and messing up her front bumper by attaching the tow hooks.... she'd never go for it, plus if we had 4 wheels down on her car, it's logged miles would increase by the amount of miles it was towed....

my wife, son and myself are newbies to RVing but we had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed the moho. our satelite-tv is not yet hooked up, but we had more dvds than we had time to watch, plus we had local tv and had i brought a cable we would have had cable tv.

are we happy with our new 32 footer????...... yes
do we wish we had a moho that had costs twice as much??? yes
are we happy that our moho monthly payment is half as much??? yes

we got such a good deal on this 2008 that if we wanted to upgrade, we probably could without losing too much..... but we all feel like this one will be just fine for the next 3 years.... plus this one is small enough that i could pull and launch a boat with it... wifey said she would follow us in her car to the lake.

when we're all together in the moho i never want to come back home....