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Monaco vs. Country Coach

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David,

I had a new 1999 Monaco product and drove into nearly every factory authorized repair shop between Florida and Anchorage, Alaska (twice for several days each time in Anchorage). This also included two and a half days at the factory in Wakarusa, Indiana. (All of the lists of repair requests were for coach problems; none were engine related.) Hearing all the many other customers screaming and yelling convinced me I had to get out of a bad situation. I took a factory tour on one of the days they worked on my coach and I saw why everyone was there for repair work. The factory did not employ anyone in quality control. The only difference in cheap and expensive models were larger engines, nicer carpet, more bells, whistles, and glitter. But, still the same lack of quality at all levels.
After the factory tour I went to a dealer. I drove a Mountain Aire and a Monaco that was priced about $100,000 higher. The Mountain Aire on the Spartan chassis drove far better than the Monaco. Even today I think you get more for your money with a Newmar product than a Monaco. Monaco makes a good looking products, but "everything that glitters is not gold." I have lived full time in my Country Coach Allure 2000 for over five years (80,000 miles) and when I do trade, it will be for another CC. I've had some problems, but no more than I did when I lived in a house that didn't move. I haven't met a lot of the people who post on this site because I live in the "wilds". Other than Escapee parks where I still boondock, I don't stay in private campgrounds and go five plus months without plugging into electricity. We love the natural areas of state and national campgrounds, BLM lands, etc. We have driven our coach many thousands of miles on gravel roads. I wouldn't be confident doing that with most other brands of coaches.
Besides having a great group of CC owners to answer "how to" questions, the tech support group at CC is superb. John Bickel who has answered a zillion of my questions has always returned my calls and gone out of his way to look up answers to my questions, etc. Personally, I think John should be the highest paid employee at Country Coach.
Hope this helps,

Gene and Martha Merryman
2000 Allure #30496
2002 Green GMC Pickup