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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / RVs / May 2008Alfa Leisure factory closes
Alfa Leisure, manufacturer of Alfa See-Ya Motorhomes and Alfa 5th wheel trailers if going out of business. http://www.rvnewsservice.com/alfa-leisure-calls-it-quits/ Their website is down and emails are not going thru. Bummer, they made a great product > Alfa Leisure, manufacturer of Alfa See-Ya Motorhomes and Alfa 5th wheel > trailers if going out of business. > http://www.rvnewsservice.com/alfa-leisure-calls-it-quits/ > Their website is down and emails are not going thru. Bummer, they made a > great product I never thought much of the product and they had a very spotty reputation for warranty work. A few years ago they were losing dealerships because they would not pay them for warranty work or took months and months to pay. When we were fulltiming, we looked at an Alfa fiver. The axles were seriously undersized for the weight of the trailers. The net carrying capacity was equivalent to a pair of panties and a can of tuna. After crawling under one or two, I knew they weren't for us. Their older models, like in the early to mid 90's were good, but like too many manufacturers, they started building more lines to attract more levels of customers then went into the motorhome business. They spread themselves very thin and with the depressed new RV market these past two years, we are now watching more and more of these companies fold. The thing Alfa had going for it was glitz. The motorhomes gave a lot of bang for the buck, but had serious warranty issues. The trailers had some innovative designs. Personally I thought some of it was silly, like their front living room model with an awning over the window in the cap.  SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life Indeed, a fitting end for a bunch that has SO severely abused unaware RVers over the years with their tacky outstandingly substandard products! Not something a participant in this forum would ever been stuck with; but there are a whole bunch of less astute would-be RVers out there who have spent big $$$, only to have been stung by a piece of crap that has acquired an earned reputation for propensity to summarily collapse under it's own weight!! It's most gratifying to witness the demise of these rapscallions! Stan Birch Newmarket, Ontario >> Alfa Leisure, manufacturer of Alfa See-Ya Motorhomes and Alfa 5th wheel >> trailers if going out of business. [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] >some innovative designs. Personally I thought some of it was silly, like >their front living room model with an awning over the window in the cap. >> Alfa Leisure, manufacturer of Alfa See-Ya Motorhomes and Alfa 5th wheel >> trailers if going out of business. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > they would not pay them for warranty work or took months and months to > pay. You may be right, but from what I heard checks were never sent out to dealers for warranty work. Warranty work done by a dealer has always been deducted from the cost dealers paid for the next unit they purchased. When the market slows down it could be months and months before they got their money. I guess the unhappy dealers should have read the dealership agreement before signing it! > When we were fulltiming, we looked at an Alfa fiver. The axles were > seriously undersized for the weight of the trailers. The net carrying > capacity was equivalent to a pair of panties and a can of tuna. After > crawling under one or two, I knew they weren't for us. Our Alfa has a cargo capacity of 3,300 pounds considering only the axle capacity plus another 2,600 pounds it you count the pin weight. > Their older models, like in the early to mid 90's were good, but like too > many manufacturers, they started building more lines to attract more [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > innovative designs. Personally I thought some of it was silly, like their > front living room model with an awning over the window in the cap. I suppose you are referring to the front cap that opens to become an awning. Since they started that a few years back they have NOT produced any models with front living rooms and I have never seen or heard of a front living room model made by Alfa. With the cap up we have a great view out the front window. Not a big deal in crowded RV parks, but nice in places like our spot on the Yellowstone River. Towable RV's, by law must be under 400 square feet and space in the front and end caps count toward the total. When the front cap is movable, like the Alf front, it doesn't count as part of the square footage, so you can have a little more space inside. Ron > I suppose you are referring to the front cap that opens to become an awning. > Since they started that a few years back they have NOT produced any models > with front living rooms and I have never seen or heard of a front living > room model made by Alfa. With the cap up we have a great view out the front > window. Not a big deal in crowded RV parks, but nice in places like our > spot on the Yellowstone River. I thought the big window was for a living room. You mean that window is in the bedroom? I am certain that I would not have liked that feature at all. What a waste of good wall space! I did see one of those models at an RV park. IMHO, it was ugly. I could see in front of us because our bedroom slide had windows on the side (slide-out) walls that allowed us a forward and rearward vier. SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life >> I suppose you are referring to the front cap that opens to become an >> awning. Since they started that a few years back they have NOT produced [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > in the bedroom? I am certain that I would not have liked that feature at > all. What a waste of good wall space! If you took away the window and hinged front cap, you would have a curved wall or 15 or so square feet of unusable space behind a flat wall. I suppose you could put in closet, but that would take away the wall space too. Some like the window, some don't. We happen to like it. Ron >>> I suppose you are referring to the front cap that opens to become an >>> awning. Since they started that a few years back they have NOT produced [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > Ron Most fivers have a closet in that space. Both of our fivers did and they were quite copious. SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life Janet Wilder <kelliepoodle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:482790fa$0$31211 $c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com: > Most fivers have a closet in that space. Both of our fivers did and they > were quite copious. That's where the Entertainment Center is located in our Montana. The Bedroom is at the rear of the trailer and the Living Room is over the hitch. Both end caps are quite solid. FWIW, the first time I saw an Avion FW with its band of black paint around the front cap I thought that it might be a dark glass wrap-around window. > Janet Wilder <kelliepoodle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:482790fa$0$31211 > $c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com: [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > FWIW, the first time I saw an Avion FW with its band of black paint around > the front cap I thought that it might be a dark glass wrap-around window. I did, too. <g> SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life >> Janet Wilder <kelliepoodle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:482790fa$0$31211 >> $c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> > I did, too. <g> Me also! Ron >>> Janet Wilder <kelliepoodle@yahoo.com> wrote in news:482790fa$0$31211 >>> $c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Ron Too bad that they didn't actually do it - it'd have been a great feature!
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