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No, crack on Martin..I'm enjoying reading all this - it's absorbing.
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Getting my C is probably one of the most self enlightening experience I have had in a long time. I was 60 when I started training after 44 years of being a perfect driver, to find I was bloody useless. It teaches you a whole new approach to lorries on the road and provides skills for handling any large vehicle that are really beneficial. If I were you I would train and get my C whilst you are not under any pressure to pass because you have a new heavy truck on the drive.The RV thing. I haven't got HGV, and with RV's, it's like a house with me..I have to like the look of it before I love it, and I don't generally like them, especially the interiors on some of the one's I've seen and been in. I would love to have slides but can't go the extra for a Euro with that facility unfortunately.
The gap is much closer than some people think, some RV interiors used to be awful but they are much more muted now, on our 27B the brochure proudly claimed European styling and cabinetsThe RV thing. I haven't got HGV, and with RV's, it's like a house with me..I have to like the look of it before I love it, and I don't generally like them, especially the interiors on some of the one's I've seen and been in. I would love to have slides but can't go the extra for a Euro with that facility unfortunately.
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I bet the Morelo has a better and stronger feel than the US RV, I know which I would prefer.The gap is much closer than some people think, some RV interiors used to be awful but they are much more muted now, on our 27B the brochure proudly claimed European styling and cabinets
As for the outside, a little like cars design, they are all running out of ideas:-
Yes I don't doubt it. I bet the Morello has a claustrophobic feel than the RV, So I know which I would preferI bet the Morelo has a better and stronger feel than the US RV, I know which I would prefer.
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Yes I don't doubt it. I bet the Morello has a claustrophobic feel than the RV, So I know which I would prefer
That and I could buy two for the price of one and sit four people to the table and not tread on each other
Get on with you, there is no way that your any where near 70!Yes, I totally get the claustrophobic feel. In our very expensive Flair, if one person stood up then the other person had to sit down if one wanted to get past each other.
Our kltchen lounge slide on the RS gives us the extra room and couldn't go back to non slide now. If I get to 70 and fail the test and have to go back to 3.5 ton then I guess I would go back to a caravan with a slide which is bizarre as the motorhome is a much safer vehicle to drive than a big four wheel drive and a caravan swaying around the back
Our kltchen lounge slide on the RS
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Get on with you, there is no way that your any where near 70!
You bought an RS. Brave man
You bought an RS. Brave man
Sure, they have had their ups and downs but in 7 years they have never let me down or failed to correct any issue. Maybe foolish but I buy people first and they can never do enough to make sure it is right. Plus, for me, buying British and being within 50 miles of the factory to get anything fixed is a big plus.What names were on your receipts. They change it every two years. so much for your guarantee
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https://www.motorhomefun.co.uk/forum/threads/rs-motorhomes.163483/#post-2565329Why is that Weejocky ????
There is nothing old about the news. Fraud is Fraud and Phoenix companies are a scourge on the honest.
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All I know is that it's yellow!No, as far as I know, that's not the case for large vehicles. Ours is Cat 2
We have "downsized" under 7.5 ton, being in my fifties this has nothing to do with age, but choice. We are under 9m long now which we consider OK for most of the sites that we visit. we are returning about 10MPG which on LPG at about 60p a litre we are very happy with. Having bought our first new motorhome at the tender age of 28 our kids have grown up in motorhomes and have travelled extensively.
At the age of 31 I got bitten by the RV bug and although we (Lyn my Wife and I) have had European vans in between have had nine new RVs So have a bit of experience in ordering them and knowing what to expect.
So, price? To some spending £140,000 on a camper van is a lot of money, to a Morello owner it is a down payment. Do I think that Morello's are worth it? No, but to be fair I also fail to see the value of some panel van conversions, in that I look at the price of the delivery van, mentally add the cost of the components as I mentally "load" the van up and cannot get to circa £70k for some. Equally I cannot see how my entry level (in the States) RV could cost £140k so I can't criticise Morello for that, it is just me.
Would I buy a Morello, or more importantly could I buy a Morello? Having bought boats (my other passion) costing a few hundred pounds to ordering new boats costing several hundred thousand pounds, yes, if I wanted one I could find the money, but "would" I buy a Morello? No, I wouldn't. The reason that I wouldn't is that I have had some eighteen motorhomes in the last thirty years and I tend to change them quite quickly and I wouldn't get the value out of owning a Morello, and there are things that I prefer on a yank.
So, having worked on several Morello's do I like them? Yes I do, I think that the attention to detail in the main is excellent, the workmanship is first class and the equipment that they install and the materials they use in construction, are some of the very best. In fact, the antithesis of entry level RV's, where the attention to detail is sloppy, the equipment, particularly the heating is dreadful and the materials they use sometimes beggar belief.
In 1990 We ordered a Gulf Stream Conquest a 28' C Class motorhome on a Ford V8 7.2 Diesel engine chassis. We sold a 1999 Swift Kon Tiki on a Talbot 2Lt petrol chassis. If I had to buy both those motorhomes back today, and pick one to full time in, touring Europe, I bet that I could still live very comfortably in a 29 year old Gulf Stream Conquest.
So having established that Morello's are superior in so many ways, why do we love Yanks?
Our third or fourth RV in, saw Lyn & I travelling with @AshVanBitz @Simon Howards Motorhomes and @JamesJohnsCross when Lyn told us that five was to become Six After a little while to get over the shock, we worked out how we would carry on using our motorhome (for work and play) with three young children and a baby. The answer was simple, the rear bed in the camper was housing electrics and water tanks. It was a weekends work to remove the double bed, cut it in half to make two single beds, relocate the water tank, pump and plumbing one side and all the electrics to the other side and build two bunks above it. All the structure was decorative Luan panelling fitted to a aluminium structure so easily added to and moved. As I have said we tend to change our vans quite quickly so when we sold the Airex it was dead easy to change the "Bunkhouse" back to a conventional rear double bedroom.
Also space, as the boys got older, holidaying with three teenage boys, one ten year old and two adults, all of who like sports, bike riding, swimming, snorkelling, the kids into blading and a host of other things takes up a huge amount of space! If we all just took three pairs of shoes, (unlikely with my wife, or as I found out @JamesJohnsCross's now wife, then as a girlfriend, would hide loads of shoes in our camper despite technically going away to meet us, travelling with her parents in their RV!) That is 18 pairs of shoes, 6 pairs of flip flops, six sets of fins, six mountain bikes! So very early on we discovered slide outs, and this is the biggest reason that I remain a devout fan of American campers.
In our latest bed, we have a Super King sized bed, the same as we have at home, we love it, a Sunday morning, tucked up as snug, in a bug, in a rug, in bed with our books, coffee's on our side tables is so relaxing. and when we do decide to get up, Shadow, our massive GSD can be sprawled across the floor and there is no stepping over him, with the whole kitchen and dinette slide out doubling the usable lounge space, actually making it feel like an apartment rather than a camper.
The twin slides mean that we can actually have a dedicated dinette, a dinette that four people can sit at for the evening if playing cards or Rummicub, close friends have downsized to a Hymer after having Yanks for years and the four of us can no longer sit at their table comfortably as whilst the picture looked great in the brochure there is physically not enough room for four normal sized adults to put their legs, a common fault by motorhome designers I find, swirling chaise longue style settees around an artistic teardrop table looks great, if you have people with no legs! Style over substance.
So, RV's not fantastic workmanship, some with dubious style, design and colour combinations, some of the technology "old school" to say the least, but acres of space when the slide outs are deployed, and to me personally, once a certain level of build and equipment is achieved, space is king.
This is why motorhomes are so individual, to many space is irrelevant and they are concerned about a different criteria, nor are my comments written in stone and I may change my mind, I have in the past, nor are all the toys on a yank rubbish, to be honest on the new one I can, from the outside, having checked the pitch, use an app on my phone to level the camper using the hydraulic jacks, slide out the front and rear slide outs, extend the fully automatic awning, and turn lights, all nonchalantly you understand
I would just like to say here, a very big thank you to Peter (OurMoroeLolife) & Evie, for taking the time to show us round their beautiful 'bus' today. A very informative day for us, and actually seeing a Morelo in the flesh like that, took me aback to be honest, such a stunning motorhome.
Thanks again Peter & Evie..It was a pleasure to meet you today.
Steve & Karen
No doubt, it is a super duper van (actually, almost an insult to call it a van, palace is more accurate)
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Haha. I said something similar today. It's a total injustice to call it a van, when something like that is so beautiful. To be honest, I haven't seen a better motorhome inside or out.
I would just like to say here, a very big thank you to Peter (OurMoreloLife) & Evie, for taking the time to show us round their beautiful 'bus' today. A very informative day for us, and actually seeing a Morelo in the flesh like that, took me aback to be honest, such a stunning motorhome.
Thanks again Peter & Evie..It was a pleasure to meet you today.
Steve & Karen
Lovely vans they certainly are, have you seen any more of the high end A class vans?
Phoenix, Concorde, Variomobile, Niesmann, because its such a lot of money I would definitely do a Germany trip before committing to look at all the others.
I was wowed by Vario, Phoenix are top quality, Concorde nice vans too. Flairs are lovely.
I looked at them at the NEC and thought at that price they would have been better.The build quality looks OK but at the price point you’d expect it to be absolutely perfect.
Interesting in what way?I looked at them at the NEC and thought at that price they would have been better.
Personally I would go for a Frankia. Had one for around 9 years no issues with build quality
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