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12-11-2013, 03:32 PM
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Junior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
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05 Fleetwood Expedition
My wife and I finally had enough of the toy hauler and traveling with the little ones in the truck on long trips. We found this DP and fell in love with it. Previous owner took great care it.
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12-11-2013, 05:34 PM
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Community Administrator
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Marquette, Michigan "Da UP" & Lehigh Acres Florida
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Great looking unit.
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John & Cathy R.
06 Pace Arrow 38L Workhorse W24
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12-11-2013, 05:53 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
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Howdy and welcome! Great looking Fleetwood!! Congrats.
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12-11-2013, 07:01 PM
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Fleetwood Owners Club
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Location: Mississippi
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We have the same unit diff colors and have enjoyed it for a couple of yea
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12-11-2013, 07:50 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: NC
Posts: 177
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Sweet! enjoy.
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2008 Fleetwood Discovery 40x
2002 Jeep Liberty
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12-11-2013, 08:19 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2011
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We are just coming up on the 1st anniversary of selling our beloved '05 Excursion, our very first rig.
It was a great rv, made many special memories. Get a brown laundry marker for the "junk drawer" to cover the edges of the vinyl-clad woodwork framing, and you're good to go.
Really, the interiors are gorgeous, tastefully done. Why they slipped when it came to that one item, none of us will ever know.
We put a new set of Koni's on ours, hung new tires on the steering axle (a must, for safety), lubed everything underneath, put new nylon bushings on the anti-sway bar and tightened every bolt we could find. Simple, cheap, and made our 100,000 mile chassis ride, in the words of the guy who took it on trade, "like a showroom-new bus!"
In many ways, we enjoyed the Fleetwood more than our present iconic Beaver.
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12-12-2013, 06:00 AM
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Senior Member
Country Coach Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Ocala, Florida
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Welcome and glad to meet you!
What a fine looking rig. That's a huge upgrade over a toy hauler. Congrats!
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2012 Airstream Mercedes Interstate Class B
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12-12-2013, 06:09 AM
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Senior Member
Winnebago Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Buffalo, IA
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Welcome aboard... nice looking rig...Happy Trails...
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Terry & Brenda - From the Iowa Banks of the Mighty Mississippi
2011 Winnie Journey 34y, Freightliner / Cummins , 2012 Chevy Colorado Toad
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12-12-2013, 06:21 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Willow Lakes RV & Golf Resort, FL
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DW and I really loved our 03 Excursion. We also made some chassis modifications that contributed to a greater ride. IMHO, Koni shocks, check both front and rear alignment, also added a Supersteer, bell crank from Henderson's Drive Line, check their web site. John Henderson is a wealth of knowledge! Note: these modifications were not that expensive for the results!
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Clay & Pebble
2012 Providence 42 M. Spartan Chassis, 450 ISL
Ford Edge toad, RM All Terrane, TST TPMS, SMI Air Force One, RVM95....
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12-12-2013, 06:28 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 12,131
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"I've been lost now, days uncounted..."GFR"
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12-12-2013, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Feb 2013
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Congrats! You're gonna love Fleetwood.
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2013 Fleetwood Discovery 40G, Cummins ISL,Freightliner Chassis, Allison 3000.
2017 Ford F150 Lariat toad w/
Blue Ox Aventa tow bar and M&G Braking System
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12-12-2013, 11:14 AM
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Junior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
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@Stat. I see you have the 40G model. How do you like it? That is the model we almost bought then decided i didnt want to spend that much yet.
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12-12-2013, 11:17 AM
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Junior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
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@ Clay. What is the super steer and what does it help with?
Also Thank you for all the welcomes to the site. Seems to be a wealth of information here. Cant wait to start planning our summer vacation with the kids.
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12-12-2013, 12:01 PM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dennis E
@Stat. I see you have the 40G model. How do you like it? That is the model we almost bought then decided i didnt want to spend that much yet.
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We love it! This is our second bunkhouse coach. The first was a gas Coachmen (also a 2013) that served as our introduction into RVing... but it didn't last a full ar with us. After an 18day summer trip on it, we knew then and there that we wanted to upgrade to a DP and began looking. Friends that we frequently camp with have the Berk 390 bunkhouse which is also a fine coach, and we were looking into one of those pretty seriously.
Then we found the Discovery 40G, and we haven't looked back. We love the floor plan, quality, finish, all of the nice features, over/under WD, residential fridge... really everything about it with only one minor exception.
One feature that we LOVE is the fact that Fleetwood put the kitchen on the driver's side of the coach (the "business" side) so that the couch and dinette would be on the "fun" side of the coach. We much prefer to look out that dinette window and see our picnic table and our outdoor area, versus in our Coachmen (and many others) where we had to look at our neighbors and our sewer hose! Never could understand that logic.
So this is really cool... but the down side is that there aren't as many windows on the kitchen side so we get less natural light than that Berkshire (and other) models. Partly it's due to the layout, but it's also that the full residential fridge, microwave/convection oven and the nicely sized kitchen storage cabinets occupy space that could have been a window. I wouldn't change it a bit though. We don't sit in the coach during the day much--we are outside enjoying wherever we are.
The only feature that I would change in my particular unit is the LP oven. I would be happy to switch that out and have a dishwasher instead. We are a family of 4, I have a Camp Chef pizza oven that I set up outside and use for baking, so the dishwasher would be more treasured than the oven. We would NEVER use the oven during the long Texas summers, though I may use it for winter camping now and then.
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2013 Fleetwood Discovery 40G, Cummins ISL,Freightliner Chassis, Allison 3000.
2017 Ford F150 Lariat toad w/
Blue Ox Aventa tow bar and M&G Braking System
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