Maybe you’re an RVer who loves their RV’s slideouts. They not only make it feel more spacious, but they really do increase your RV’s square footage. Sometimes they make the room feel huge! And even if you don’t love RV slideouts, we bet you at least appreciate them. Right?
Or perhaps you’re the person who doesn’t like RV slideouts. Maybe you prefer a smaller space, or maybe you’ve had issues with an RV slideout in the past that made you never want them again.
After all, they are one more thing you have to maintain and potentially repair…
So this all leads us to our poll question today… Do you think your next RV will likely have more or fewer slideouts than the RV you currently have? More? Fewer? About the same as you have now? Or are you saying no more slideouts for good?
After you vote, please leave a comment and explain why you answered the way you did. We’d appreciate it. Thank you!
Oh, and if you don’t plan on buying another RV, this isn’t the poll for you. Sorry!
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None because our next RV purchase will likely be a park model to replace our currently stationary 3-slide at a long term RV park. We find it more convenient to have a 2nd smaller trailer for road use not longer than a month at a time.
Our current coach has two slides, one for the bedroom and the other for the living space.
My wife looks at the additional real estate that slides represent. I look at the structural compromise that big holes filled with hollow boxes represent.
She studies how it “un-rectangles” the square footage and I study how many additional places water, wind and failures can propagate.
She thinks the whining noise from extending/retracting sounds cool. I think it’s just a matter of time before that noise changes thus signaling the start of a bad day.
She loves them, I tolerate them. That said, she said our next coach will have slides, probably two.
Happy wife, happy life!
We currently have 3 in our motorhome. Our next RV will be smaller than our current one, so I am suspecting we will have fewer slide outs. I like the room they provide although I know they are another source of trouble.
Slides provide open space, which is nice. Unfortunately, for the cost of rvs, the manufacturers fail to engineer them to be functional for life. Manufacturers choose profit over quality, leaving us with a catch 22 choice.
We just bought a new-to-us class A. It is smaller and has only 1 slide, which is less than the coach we just sold. Having had slides, we would feel claustrophobic with no slides at all.
I have 3, but one is a full-length slide so it’s equivalent to a 4 slide RV. I actually saw a 5 slide RV that had 2 on each side and one on the end. It was a 5th wheel.
No slideouts means less weight and things to repair and maintain
Our 25 ft. Salem has opposing slides with an island in the middle and makes it seem like a huge room.
I plan on our current RV being our last RV
Thank you for the question, RV Travel! I want a #3 RV, but DW currently is opposed to replacing RV #2. In that there is a #3, it will have 3 slideouts, which is the same number as RVs #1 and #2. Have a great weekend and safe travels!
I have no desire for slideouts in any RV I would own. It’s one more thing to go wrong mechanically or electrically, one more place to leak, it adds weight to the RV, and it also takes up more width in a campsite – which, if you end up in a campground with small, close-together sites, could be a problem.
Well, I am in the process of moving from a 42.5′ Phaeton with four slides to a 25′ two slide Wayfarer. Not sure how that will be. Claustrophobic maybe. I know I will miss the dishwasher & storage the most.