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RE: Is Downsizing really do-able?
Was wondering how many downsized from a class A or C to a B. Can you really cook and use bathroom as comfortably as a bigger unit? What is the biggest compromise? Thanks! Ditto to Salianron-ms "B" Haven-David 42-Cm-Polishnurse We downsized from a class "A" 34 ft Southwind to a Pleasureway excel 20 ft class "B" and it was the best move we ever made. (We travel,do very little camping,usually overnight) We seldom cook,never use the shower in the bath room,and as far as comparing a class "a" with a class "B" ,With the class "B", we had to except about double gas mileage,not towing a car, bath room and refrigerator always with you, after sight seeing all day we do not have to return to the camp ground with the car and hook it up to the motorhome, we just keep on going down the road to another place of interest. Also, resale value is excelent. With a class "A", cleaning, waxing, driving, 6 very expensive tires to replace instead of four less expensive tires on the class "B", etc. Bob
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radio man 7.262
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06/22/08 12:20pm |
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RE: Registration Now Open - B5 Rally May 16, 2008
Got home late yesterday afternoon. What a well organized, great Rally! Thanks for all of your work Jim, Carolyn, Nick and Christine. Take it from one who appreciates a good meal, no one should have went away hungry. There were even left overs! Yes, Lynne, out of over a million dollars worth of RV's at the Rally, I fit very comfortably in a Pleasureway Excel. It is kind of like one "extended body" to another.
We also appreciated the DJ, especially since the weather had been so rainy and you just couldn't depend on having a nice night outside by the campfire. He was very entertaining (I know Peter and Arlene were having a great time!) What a great mix of music and antics.
It truly was the "rally to remember".
Michael and JaneAnn
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ibthebest
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05/21/08 06:54am |
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RE: Oh Baby - The (IMHO) Perfect Solo Van - What's yours?
Susan, Google the Pleasureway Excel TD, I think you'll find everything your looking for in the Excel TD.
Nick
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charles
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05/14/08 10:18am |
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RE: Day 5 and I still don't have my Roadtrek!
These things haappen, your problems will be taken care of and then after you get it home you'll say, Wow, this is really a great unit, it was worth the wait.
Nick
07 Pleasureway Excel TS
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charles
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04/23/08 09:58am |
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RE: Hankook Tires
I never had "HANKOOK" tires but here is my opinion on them. About 3 yrs ago i was trying out a new Pleasureway Excel with some unknown foreign tires on it that i never heard of at a dealer west of my location and it handled terrible so i returned it and tried out another new P.W. Excel with Goodyear Wrangler tires on it and it had a squirley feel to it so I tried out the third P.W. Excel with "HANKOOK" tires and it drove like a dream. (all three had correct air preasure in the tires). Bob
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radio man 7.262
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04/18/08 04:39am |
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RE: Hankook Tires
I have them on my 07 Pleasureway Excel, 15,000 miles so far and no problems. Drove from Ohio to Las Vegas and back, Ohio to Florida and back, no handling issues, or anything else negative.
Nick
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charles
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04/17/08 11:33am |
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Pleasureway Excel Radio
So I have a 2008 Pleasureway Excel and have yet to figure out how to get the factory stero in the cab to come out the speakers in the rear. We were trying to listen to the Laker game on the radio today and the passengers in the rear couldn't hear it.
Am am I missing something? Is there something I can do to get it to play? Or do I need a seperate set-up for the rear?
Thanks!
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embrau
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03/02/08 08:52pm |
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RE: Roadtrek's best year?
I just came back from the Rockland county rv show. I had my heart set on the 210 chevy until I sat behind the wheel.I am 5ft 11in tall and the side moulding and curtain hits me in the side of my head I would have to drive the RT with my head tilted to the right. there were others in the rig that noticed this. they to said something is wrong. Now I have to go with the pleasureway excel TS-2. I did not want the ford but I feel much more comfortable. My second choice is the new Itasca IQ. this rig blows me away. there is more room and storage than I need.there is also the big price tag
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tonytong
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02/17/08 08:08pm |
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Pleasureway security
Recently my 2005 Pleasureway Excel TS was broken into while parked in my driveway. Only a few items were stolen: walkie talkies, some loose change and a sleeping bag. I was wondering if other pleasure owners had installed alarm systems. I am especially interested in the brand. I was under the impression that the key fob fromFord was a security system and, dumb me, just found out that it only controls the door locks. Thanks for the help.
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Carl Stahnke
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02/04/08 03:12pm |
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PleasureWay Excel how low can you set airbags?
We need to bring my 89 yr old mom down here, a trip of about 4-5 hours while she rides in the back in the bed. We have the big bed configuration in place and blankets and quilts on top of it. Anybody who's ever ridden in the back of a PW Excel knows it brings back memories of old Western movies and buckboards or stagecoaches. It's a darned rough ride. Mom has a lot of back and neck pain from degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis. Okay, what can we do to soften the ride? How low can we go with the airbag pressure? What combination of tire and airbag pressures would you recommend? The wind is supposed to be 15-20 mph so not too bad. She's only 115 lbs so her weight isn't going to be much of a factor. Would appreciate any help. Thanks, Judy
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CA POPPY
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01/11/08 03:38pm |
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RE: Travasak or mattress pad
We have a 1996 pleasureway excel widebody 3500 chassis dodge (TWIN BED) and we always left the bolsters home as they were a lot of trouble finding a place to keep them, and this keep us from making a larger bed so we had to use the twin beds only. I solved this problem by removing the little night stand that was between the twin beds and cut down the size of the bolsters to replace the night stand. The remaining (two) bolsters fits behind the drivers seat. Now i have twin beds (29 inches x 73 inches ) and instead of a king size bed it is a double bed( 54 inches x77 inches) making it easier to make up and easier to get into and to get out of. I never did like the idea of having to raise the bed to get the supporting boards out for the double bed, so i fixed the boards so all i had to do is pull them out on the system that i made(cut slots out for the boards to slid on under the bed). We have 2 inches of memory foam and a sleeping bags on each twin bed (32 inches wide that folds out to 64 inches) that we use during the day and also is used as a cover for the twin beds and a cover for the double bed. We are very happy with this bed settup. Bob :B Ps. We sit on the sleeping bags during the day on the twin beds and just flip them open and crawl in. To maka a double bed , i slide out the 2 boards, roll up the memory foam and roll up the sleeping bags and then unroll both into a double bed, no lifting, pulling and back breaking. now we have a lot more storage space because we do not carry sheets or blankets as the sleeping bages replaces them. Sorry this was so long but there is new people on this forum that needs to know more of the already known details.
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radio man 7.262
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01/09/08 09:50am |
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RE: Where or where could my fuse be???
Have a 99 PleasureWay and today while installing a red light to let me know the water heater is on - I blew out the fuse that runs the water pump. The whole panel over the door that has the grey/black water amounts, the porch light, the water pump etc. etc. is dead. I have tested all the fuses - under the dash- under the bed - and I still cannot locate where this specific fuse could be. Can anyone help? i I have a 1996 Pleasureway excel Dodge that has reset buttons located on top of what appears to be three relays located under the bed, and one of them controls the charging from the altenator to the coach battery, the other two the jury is still out. I took a tour of the Pleasureway factory while on a trip to alaska last year and my coach battery was not charging so i told them about the problem and they went outside with me and showed me where the reset buttons is. (the reset buttons are very small and almost invisible, you reset them with your finder nail) Hope this info will help with your problem. Bob
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radio man 7.262
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01/05/08 07:07am |
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RE: recent Roadtrek factory tour report (long)
I would tend to think that someone who has owned all three, a Leisure Travel, Pleasureway Excel and a Roadtrek , "in my opinion" would have a pretty good handle on judging quality between the ones that he has owned by experience and be qualified to make a preference over another.
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B-Plus
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12/10/07 02:39pm |
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RE: recent Roadtrek factory tour report (long)
My wife and I also took a factory tour, way back in 1999, and were very impressed. At that time we owned and 1998 190V which we had for 8 years a loved it. Then we made a horrible mistake, we traded it in on a competitor, for a 2005 Leisure Travel, then switched to a 2006 Pleasureway Excel. Now we are back to a 2006 Roadtrek 170 and will never buy from the competition again.
Nothing beats the Roadtrek for the combination of innovation (excellent space engineering), quality of workmanship and quality of materials. Others may look better on the surface, but the poeple who designed and built competing products obviously have never used or taken the pride that Roadtrek has in their construction.
Specifically, the Leisure Travel had very nice uphostry, floorcoverings, window treatments and lighting, but the cabinets were made of some type of resin-based wood product that dented and scratch easily, cabinet hardware immediately failed on the bathroom door, and the use of the Sprinter's space was not well thought out at all, seemed like a long dark hallway. As a chassi, I loved the Sprinter best of all, handles and drives better than even the Chevy, which of course drives 100 time better than the Ford.
The Pleasureway Excel was the worse decision of all. I echo the horror stories about the its handling problems--white knuckle all the time. But worse of all it leaked like a siv from the get go. So bad in fact that Pleasureway replaced our first one, only to have the second one do the same. The second one even had the windows improperly installed. It has an open airy interior but but the engineering and use of space is still way behind Roadtrek. A lot of little things that you don't notice when you shopping, but really notice when you start using it a lot--i.e. completely unuseable shower in the bathroom, no propane tank readout inside, faulty propane sensor that kept going off, some type of pressure problem in the water system, a generator that never ran properly.
In a nutshell, you can't read the quality of a campervan by what you are able to see on the lot. You need to load it up, take it out for a weekend, and use all the systems. These are very complicated machines and you can have a lot of problems, but if you buy a Roadtrek, you will have far fewer of them.
Kevin Shilts
1998 Roadtrek 190V
2005 Leisure Travel Free Spirit
2006 Pleasureway Excel
2006 Roadtrek 170P
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kevinwshilts
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12/10/07 10:55am |
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Furnace Question
I recently bought a 2008 Pleasureway Excel. I took it out this past weekend and it was fairly cold. I wanted to use the furnace but everytime I turned it on, it set the carbon monoxide detector off.
Does it just need to burn off some factory chemicals or is this something I need to get checked out? Any suggestions? Thank you.
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embrau
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12/09/07 12:55pm |
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RE: Your 21 foot buying decision
Before we bought our current Class B, I entertained the thought of getting a larger unit. I studied B +, C, and A's pretty thoroughly before deciding to stay with a Class B. My conclusion was that for just about the same cost as a Pleasureway Excel, I could buy a 32 ft Alegro with a front engine diesel. Soooo, if I were to get out of a Class B, I would have gone to the Class A, I couldn't rationalize anything in between as none of the other classes can do what the B's do so well, Travel, Camp, park anywhere, use as a second car, and get decent mileage.
Nick
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charles
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11/30/07 08:51am |
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Close to Buying a "B"
So after months of looking at RVs and changing my mind at least 10 times, I think I have finally decided on the Pleasureway Excel. I'm in Southern California and can get one for about 15% of MSRP. Is that a standard for this type of vehicle? Can I do much better? If I can save another 5% or so, it may be worth looking more. However, I don't know if it is worth it to beat the 15% discount by just a small amount($1K or so).
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embrau
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11/17/07 11:44pm |
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RE: Toad
I tow a Jeep Liberty 4x4 behind our Pleasureway Excel. I go to the Pa. mountains 8 to 10 times a year where I like to get off the main roads and get back into the boondocks for hunting, fishing, an photography. I don't like taking the PW of a paved road, that's the main reason I have a toad. Also, we go to Florida for the month of February and rent a house. It's a little too hard for Chris to get around down there in the PW so this year we're towing the Jeep down.
I have the Blue Ox Aventa LX tow bar, and the Brake Buddy Classic system. The V-10 has more than enough power to tow it up the mountains and most of the time you don't realize that it's behind you. And it is nice to just let the PW sit with stuff on the counters, etc., and just get in the Jeep and go. Extra cost is about 2 mpg.
Nick
07 Excel TS
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charles
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11/12/07 08:06am |
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Good Onan Report
Over the last couple nights I had my first cold weather (mid 20's at night) boondocking trip in my Pleasureway Excel TS. I thought I would see what the Onan could handle. For 30 minutes I ran together the heat strip and the microwave on 60% power so it was going on and off, along with the tv inverter and a few lights. It handled it well, as a matter of fact it sounded like it could take on a little more. When I turned it off, the battery was fully charged handled the TV for the rest of the evening and the furnace blower all night. I was at about 1600 feet elevation. I can't remember if my last one would handle the heat and micro together but this one sure does.
Nick
07 Excel TS
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charles
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11/09/07 06:40pm |
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RE: Airstream Interstate owners
Russ,
There is an airstream owners forum www.airforums.com that can probably give you all the information you need on the Interstate models. Give it a try.
Nick
07 Pleasureway Excel TS
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charles
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11/06/07 07:18pm |
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