Picking up our 178 later this week!

Well, we are ready to pull the trigger on a new 178 and are totally happy with our decision. We are stepping down from a 23 foot Thor that we have pulled many happy miles (well over 30,000) but we are finished with our three month trips and wanted something smaller and lighter so we could go down to a one car family. The Thor is sold and the truck is next. We should pull it home either Thursday or Friday this week so we can begin figuring out where to put everything. Pictures and travel adventures to be posted soon.

We had some great travels, the last one took us from here on Whidbey Island all the way to New Orleans and then back home. It was quite a trip and just a bit over 10,000 miles. Custer SD was one of our favorite stops on this trip. We have done just about every state in the Tahoe except the eastern seaboard. We are looking forward to shorter trips now so we can see more of our local area.

We went over and made the final arrangements (sounds a little gruesome doesn't it) to buy our 178 and do another look over to make sure it was what we wanted. Picked a few nits and finalized the add ons. Doing the paper work we were pushed 3 times to buy the extended warranty and I refused to buy it. They are still offering it to us up until the time we pick it up on Thursday. Almost $2000 for a four year add on warranty just seemed to be too much. After we got home I looked up the company"Warrantech" and was not too impressed with the BBB rating. Has anyone purchased an extended warranty they were pleased with. Four years with our previous trailer and no issues other than the microwave dying. Appreciate any input.

Congrats! We just recently purchased our new 178 and love it! I did purchase the extended warranty but just wanted a piece of mind with everything. We "upgraded" from a popup and really do not have any experience with trailers.

That is great! We picked up our new 178 last Monday and just spent our first 2 days and nights in it first of this week. We love it so far and are heading out tomorrow to Charlottesville KOA for a few. No extended warranty here.. Only problem we discovered so far was that the dealer had the bypass valve open on the hot water heater. We fixed that at the campsite. We hope you guys will enjoy it as much as we have begun to.