Thor / Westwind Hurricane
[Dick Imes] Hi, we own the Model 29D 2000 Hurricane. We purchased our unit in December 1999. Our unit's list price was $57,484.00 this included the 13.5 BTU ducted roof air conditioner, 4.0 Onan genterator, dash fans, day/night shades, heated holdings tanks, outside shower, wheel liners. These were options that came through with this model in addition of coure to the listed standard features. We were able to purchase our unit for $47,500.00. Dollar for dollar we are not certain you can do a great deal better. Thor makes a good product, not the best in the industry just good. There is room for improvement in some of the workmanship. But, again it comes down to how much money you have to spend. We purchased our Hurricane to use for vacationing several weeks at a time during the year. We did not purchased it for full time RVing. Althought at this very time we are living in our Model 29D for 4 months while building a new home in Florida. Nothing major has gone wrong with our unit thus far. Had a little water coming in at the base of two of the windows this could be because the weep holes should be keep cleaned out on a regular basis. I atteded to that and so far no problem. I might add it has been raining everyday this week here in this part of Florida. We are running the Ford V-10 gas in our Hurricane. A great gas power house for this size unit. As you may know, Ford is responsible for the motor, drive train, and chassis. We do have a problem with the Ford side of things. Last time we drove our unit our speedometer stopped working a couple times. We are told it is due to a speed sensor located somewhere on the transmission. It is again we are told a easy fix. Just have not gotten into the Ford folks for the fix. If we had it to do over again, would we purcahse a Hurricane? The answer is yes we believe so. Thor provides a two year warrenty and Ford three years or the 36,000 mile thing. If you are concerned about the systems working and being cover under warrenty, buying new is probably the better way to go. However, you can buy an older unit 2 to 3 years old and purcahse extended warrenties. We hope this helps, good luck in your search for a class A.
The Imes'
