Is the RV industry headed for a train wreck? Or is the sky the limit? Time to place your bets!

RV Manufacturers are still shipping an incredible number of new RVs to hungry dealers. But will these RVs continue to sell quickly? Or will many have an “RV birthday” sitting there on the dealer's lots?

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[evanmitton]

I totally agree with you the drunken free money printing party has come to and end, there will be a fire sale on rvs and repos like we have never seen, we live full time in a class A and are staying put in my wife's dad's place for the downturn, thanks for sounding the alarm, you will be right on this one.

[lanedelker]

We had a plan! Sell the house, full-time for 4 years. Then find a new nest while we continued to travel. Well now we're keeping the house, canning and stocking the pantry and freezer. The house is paid for, so we're still planning on traveling. Just not as much as we wanted to. And our plans to upgrade our 5th wheel are on hold. Not because of the RV dealers. It's because I can't find a truck, and I can't order the one I want till ....? I don't know. Plus I refuse to pay over sticker. So we wait on God's timing. Keep it going Alan, I love your channel.

[rictech]

Hello Alan !!! I watch your videos? And always say your spot on. It’s not just the RV industry that’s in trouble…. It’s everything!!! Just hold on? It’s over.

[danorourke]

I think so many people bought them last year and decided it not for them and going to dump them. The RV lots are packed but they are sending the dealers very poor quality. I think the RV industry is going to crash very badly.

[tomgaluski]

I couldn't agree more on your insights. I think dealership will do what they need to do to sell the inventory, and that can lead to poor financing to the buyer especially is sales dip because of the inflation. My wife and I just retired this year and what we had budgeted for gas is now double what we had budged. So I hope that something happens this November that can get the governments attention to the issues they created by poor leadership and do what's necessary to fix what they did. May God help us!

[CfRlCajunfishRiplips]

Down here along the gulf coast lots are overflowing with RVs. 3 different RV’s I’m considering are still on the lots from when I started looking 4 months ago. The salesmen at these dealers call me about once a week saying the price has dropped and it may not hold but the following week it drops again. I have a feeling RV Wingman is spot on. Prices are dropping you just need to have patience.

[peacefulvanlife]

Friendly reminder that it's not a requirement to have an RV in order to go camping or enjoy nature. Grab a tent from your local outdoors store or Walmart and some camping accessories. Go to a campsite or anywhere outdoors in nature (where you can legally camp), pitch the tent, go for a hike, swim, cook something, whatever, and enjoy the outdoors and time with friends/family. With perhaps a couple hundred bucks (or less than $100 if you're frugal) all in on equipment which you can put in the garage or a closet and reuse whenever, you're already 90% of the way there to what almost all RVers experience anyway. You just aren't bringing your second financed home-on-wheels with you. Heck, in most cases, not having an RV as a temptation to sit inside it all day will motivate you to enjoy the outdoors more!

[lcinflorida]

You hit the nail on the head!! there's another RV sales YouTube channel that I can't bear to watch anymore. I posed this question a number of months ago and got ignored! I might take advantage of the foreclosures though! Thank you for the show...

[stevest.martin]

I live in San Diego and the Camping World close to me closed down. Now the closest Camping World is in Los Angles.

[svongsa]

I visited a dealer in the Bay Area in mid May 2022. The whole place was PACKED with RV inventory, inside and out in the parking lot. Few customers at the dealer.

[garymckee]

Hi from Toronto Allan. Isn’t it amazing to witness the absence of any negative or realistic news stories these days about the recession which is definitely coming. If you recall back before 2008, there also was little warning from so-called financial experts of what we would face.Their advice was to continue to “spend to invest” then too and the good times would never end. I guess they didn’t remember the law of gravity and still don’t. There’s going to be a lot of unhappy campers . . . Literally.

[paulmadkow]

I agree 100 percent. Many RV vloggers paint this very rosy picture so that they can keep their channels pumped up. I believe the economy will hit the crapper by early next year. The RV industry will get hit real hard.

[tonyguill]

I concur with your thoughts.
People will spend more money on food, fuel and utilities.

[mariondiemert]

Alan, before I tell this story, remember that Tiffin was bought by Thor. We ordered a Tiffin Wayfarer last August at Vogt RV dealership in Ft. Worth, Tx. We were told it had gone into construction, but the dealer did not get the vin number from Tiffin. Then we were told, our RV had been delivered on April 3rd. We were elated! Had our inspector go over the unit, and we were crushed. 180 pages, 140 of problems and 40 of pictures of those problems. For us the most important one, the Onan diesel Generator, would shut off when put on load. Called our salesman, he was not happy about the report, but worked with us and said everything would be taken care of. Then I got a call from a higher up at Vogt, saying that the MB diesel sprinter was on a was sending out a specialist to check out the generator. Seems this is a new model and users are having problems with the generators. They start, but then turn off as soon as anything is turned on in the RV. Both of these problems were known to Tiffin/Thor. They delivered the RV anyway. The recall on MB was the middle of March! If they tested the generator, as they should, they realized it was acting crazy. Our dealership has three MB units all under the recall and from Tiffin on their lot. Vogt is not allowed to sell the RV's, because of the recall, and Vogt is paying the interest on these units. My husband is two seconds away from saying 'screw it'. I am not there yet. Guess that is how Thor got so big?

My question is…..how are people affording the expensive campers after they pay for day to day necessities? Like….house payments, insurance, gas, groceries, prom dresses, college tuition, water bill, cell phones, cable bill, etc etc. Also, you have to have a certain standard of a TRUCK to pull a camper with! My wife & I still work (age group of 40-50) & would be considered middle class folks. We have no car payments & our home is paid for & we still cannot afford the price of a new camper & a new truck to pull it with. Well, let me rephrase that, We refuse to pay the current prices. We refuse to be ripped off I should say. I have an older truck & an old camper and they serve the same purpose as the new ones. We aren’t tightwads either. I wish folks would stop buying for a while. Leave them setting on the lots folks! Maybe then the camper & truck manufacturers would either go under or drop their prices dramatically. Things have gotten crazy with all the GREED but…. the public refuses to slow down & stay home for awhile. Smh

[quarterhorsetj]

You have been correct. I work for a smaller rv dealer, and it is a great place, with hard working caring employees. We were just informed that we are being bought out by a big chain rv store, economy related.

[richardjaywhitaker]

Driving between Georgetown Texas and San Antonio this weekend we checked out the repo lot south of Austin. There were 30 to 40 trailers there that had been lost for whatever reason. For the last few months there have been more and more there. During the start of the pandemic we saw no trailers in that lot. Just wonder how many people were sold a long finance term and now are regretting it. We have our summer trips booked and paid for but the big question is how much will fuel cost when we take them. Now is not the time to rush in and buy a travel trailer at all. Heck we dont know what tomorrow will bring much less where the economy is going.

[timkane]

Just drove last week up from Moab, Utah to Seattle area after a two week quick vacation tour with some local friends. All RV dealers I could view from the major freeways from Salt Lake through Twin Falls, Idaho, through Boise up into Pendleton, Oregon, continuing into and through Washington were LOADED with RV's. My eyes don't lie. And the feedback I see on FB that so many of these are already pre-sold is full of "delamination." I did the almost the same trip in February and inventory has done nothing but increase. Buyers are finally going to get reprieve and see incredible deals by year end. Those buyers who have remained patient will be rewarded so handsomely.

[RC-hmvg]

People will hold on to their money! Pricing is through the roof! Our last purchase might be out last! Still, we love the life style and the freedom it provides. RV people are awesome!

[richardmorrison]

Excellent thoughts Wingman. I am semi-retired and was planning to purchase a Cornerstone or Newell, but due to the negative uncertainty in the economy I've Wait it out a bit. #2. I guarantee that I will not buy a new unit. There are several used coaches on the market that meet my I get weekly notifications that prices are dropping 5 - 10 % depending on the model. My personal forecast has the pre-owned market flooded with low mileage Class A coaches.