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Did Jayco make a big mistake?

Yahoo Message Number: 319
The other day my wife surprised me with a comment. She said that she
has been approached by some of the women in the park about our
motorhome. They think it looks like the ideal size and they'd like to
have a tour.

I reminded her that Jayco has already discontinued it. That makes me
wonder if they did the right thing?

Anyone else get a lot of comments on their Kokiak?

On another front, I've been getting more and more annoyed with GM.
Those of us with the Kodiak 8.1L units get a 2 year warranty. Yet, GM
has made the 5 year power train warranty standard on all cars, SUVs and
light duty trucks - but not Medium Duty Trucks. This seems wrong
since Workhorse, on its web site said that GM has increased the warranty
on the power train to 5 years and that includes the 8.1L in the Class A
chassis it produces (including the UFO). Well, those have a GVWR up to
26,000 lbs compared with the heaviest Kodiak Class C at 22,000. Why
would GM not give us the same warranty as it apparently putting on the
WCC units? I was fairly sure that GM was not covering the warranty on
Workhorse units (based on a lot of comments I've heard and the fact that
Honda did not provide any warranty or service for the Honda engine in
the Saturn View) but when you read the comments on the Workhorse web
site you get the feeling GM is providing the 5 years.

I'm tempted to call GM warranty admin and ask why we are getting the
shaft. Anyone know any more on why we were excluded.

Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving and didn't get shopped out today.
We stayed in the park and away from the crammed stores.

Don

Re: Did Jayco make a big mistake?

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Yahoo Message Number: 320
Donald A. Leslie wrote:

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The other day my wife surprised me with a comment.

This can be a scary moment in any man's life ;-)

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has been approached by some of the women in the park about our
motorhome. They think it looks like the ideal size and they'd like to
have a tour.

The response from people looking at mine has been excellent. Everyone is
shocked at how roomy it feels inside and just the basic feel of the
coach. A few people said the truck side of it seemed a bit big and
they'd be more comfortable driving a standard C on a van body. I explain
the usual reasons for the Kodiak being my choice in regards to chassis,
etc and that the width of the overall unit is the same either way.
Everyone seems surprised that it's been discontinued.

When I talk about it with my dealer, David just says they didn't sell
well. The dealer in GA who David arranged me to pick it up from said he
sold the heck out of them, so who knows. David said he sells many more
Senecas on the Kodiak than he ever did the Greyhawk and when people are
going to spend that amount, they didn't balk at another $20K or so for
diesel and flashier interior. Seems odd to me.

I couldn't be happier with mine after putting almost 2000 miles on it in
the last two months since I bought it. It handled the NC mountains well
in the wind a couple of weeks ago and kept us warm and toasty inside. I
am discouraged about the rear end cap separating and have to address
that when the world gets back to work this week.

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I'm tempted to call GM warranty admin and ask why we are getting the
shaft. Anyone know any more on why we were excluded.

No idea. I wonder if they look at the application and just assume that
people with the motorhomes are going to let them sit for months at a
time without doing regular maintenance and therefore subject the engine
to excessive wear when it's run on old oil with condensation in it from
sitting. Gummed up valves from not being run regularly etc. Just
speculation and poor guesses on my part though.

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Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving and didn't get shopped out today.
We stayed in the park and away from the crammed stores.

We had a great day, hope you did the same. We did get "out amongst them"
yesterday morning about 6 AM for a bit of shopping. Where we go at that
hour has easy parking and no big crowds looking for toys so our shopping
is easy and we get the early bird specials. Breakfast at 9 and then home
for a nap with shopping complete :-)

Take care,
Greg