Re: Model year for used motorhome
Actually, it is just a little different than stated. Motorhomes are nearly always sold by the year of the coach model. The reason that does not always match the year of the chassis is that most manufacturers buy their chassis from the chassis builder in large quantities to save money. Very often when the model year of the coach changes, there are still some chassis left from the last order of chassis that were received from the chassis manufacturer and which are the previous model year. Since the chassis warranty does not begin until the coach is sold to the final owner and registered, it really makes little difference in actual practice and if you should trade that motorhome in, it will be the coach year that is considered and not that of the chassis. There used to be times that there might be as much as a two year difference in the coach year and the chassis year of manufacture.
In a few very rare cases, the chassis year is actually newer than that of the coach. I own one of them. In 1998, Ford released the new 1999 Triton V-10 chassis as an early 1999 model in late March of 1998. My coach was one of the first built on that chassis and it was delivered in May of 1998 as a 98 coach but my chassis is a 99. Some states register the coach by chassis year, but most register it by the coach year. My title for my coach, from Texas, shows both the year of the coach and that of the chassis, as do a few other states.