We answer your RV Lifestyle Questions

Questions. You've got lots of questions. RV Lifestyle questions. And in Episode 383 of the RV Podcast, we answer them.

Our email has been piling up and we thought we'd use this podcast to answer as many of your RV Lifestyle questions as possible, tossing in a few of the pertinent comments you've sent our way, too.

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Transcript of our answers to your RV Lifestyle Questions

Mike Wendland:

First, we have a comment that we want to pass on.

This was sent to us by Mickey.

RV lots seem full on I-10

RV lot

"I don't understand all the talk about it taking one to two years to get an RV in driving from Texas to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida. The RV sales lots are loaded now with drivable and Pull-Thru RVs. We watch you and many others all saying the same, but if I wanted to buy something, I can't see a problem finding one from the large inventory offered today, maybe somewhere else, but along I10, the RV Lots are loaded."

Well, Mickey, that's great. I'm not sure whether these are new or used RVs.

Jen Wendland:

It's very hard to get a new one. If you want to pick out the interior colors and you've got something in mind, you're going to wait.

Mike Wendland:

You are definitely going to wait. The delays are still there. We just came back from the Tampa RV Supershow and every manufacturer, all say the same thing that, it's taking months.

But what you may be seeing in many of those RV Lots are consignment RVs. In other words, people who are parking it on the lot in hopes of selling their used RVs.

Or, many of them could be RVs that are waiting for service because they can't get the parts. The delays in the service industry are almost as bad as they are in the manufacturing end of the industry. And so you see on many of the lots where the inventory is down, they've got a lot of RVs sitting there, not necessarily for sale, but waiting for service.

So I don't know, I didn't see the lots that you saw Mickey, and it would be nice if they were new inventory.

I do think there are a lot of trailers for sale.

Jen Wendland:

Yeah. If you want a towable, it's easier to get a towable. Easier.

Mike Wendland:

Much easier. In our travels, every time we pass an RV dealer, we look, and we don't see a lot of new products, particularly in motorhomes out there. Some of them, there's some Class As, they're a little easier to find. There are a lot of Class Cs. There are a few Bs that are new, but the inventories are nowhere like they were a few years ago.

But there are used ones out there that people are selling. And a lot of those used ones are consignment deals where you'll go to the dealer and the dealer will keep a certain amount, but he'll show it and let you put it on his lot and handle showings if people want to go in and tour it.

Jen Wendland:

Now, if you're thinking about Motorhomes, think about cars and trucks. When you go past a car dealership, how they have very little inventory.