Re: Anyone out there?
Mike,
Sorry took so long to get back to this been busy around house and doing the lets go to the ocean trip, we live in Southwest Missouri so our weather is not as bad as yours so we can do those things. Glad to see that you have purchased a unit and hope that you are enjoying it, even at this time of year. We can go pretty much year round as we have a ton of state parks close by that are open year round and only turn off water if it gets really cold. Started in a Popup so have the necessary toilet facility that is self contained if need be and bottled water works great for all other stuff. I know when we bought our Vintage that there was a piece of paper with a blurb about the group sponsored by Gulfstream but sure have not found anything else about it. Facebook has a page for Gulfstream but is seems to be a bit on the well not so busy site. If you check on Facebook there are sites like RV Newbies, has a bunch of information, Fun Travel Trailer Camping that I use as they talk about getting together. I also on Facebook there is a site The Vintage Cruisers that in the winter were planning a get together in Branson, how handy thirty minute drive, this summer but it has seemed to die down. We are retired and have the time and we go when we want and in 2016 after we bought the Vintage, now we have had popups, 5th wheel and motorhomes and to be honest this little Gulfstream is great. Went to Glacier in it and had not one problem. There are only my wife and I and one dog so it serves us very well. Makes my F150 go from 13mpg to 12mpg, hey they pull and as I always say you have to pay to play. We had looked at an Rpod also and were very seriously considering a 179 and then when we saw the Vintage 19RBS with a real bathroom and shower the wet bath theory got scrapped. And you are correct you always hear the horror stories but never does anyone praise the product. Okay I have had a couple of issues but nothing out of the ordinary for a house that you tow down the road. Loose fitting on sink, hey I can tighten that up only thing that was a real issue was the shower wall was loose but dealer fixed that and is now in the process of changing power awning and lights on it but hey that is a product supplied by LCI so he is handling it. By the way my negative statement, I lie the power awning for convenience but not for shade it does not allow it to be set down far enough to provide shade late in the day but Awning shade is in the works if I can find one locally or dang may have to use Ebay or Amazon. Did talk to technician after his trip to Indiana and RV manufacturing mecca and he still says he is overall very impressed with Gulfstream quality, but on the other hand he did explain as a technician how he had some issues that he thought were odd. Seems that the people who build them and the process is not like a vehicle assembly line but more like, I have finished putting in two screws so let me go over here and put in a sink, no real organization as such. They are in farm country and this is usually a supplement to their income and they get paid for how many units they build not an hourly or salary so that explains a lot too. But he said that all of them do it not unique to one manufacturer. Anyway this got long so will leave you to ponder this and hope that I can get back to a regular schedule and check here more often, we may have to set the trend and get this site or another one for Gulfstream owners to get busy and share information.
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