Guest Blogger - Got the Trailer!

I stole this off of Greg's post on the Montana Owner's Forum:

Well, we finally have our new trailer. Went up last Saturday night, started our PDI on Sunday and finished it on Monday. They started the punch list Monday and worked on it until Wednesday. We stayed in it Monday and Tuesday nights on the lot. We headed home Wednesday and decided to stop in Lacey and overnighted at Cabela's and just got home yesterday afternoon. If it tells you anything about how tired we were, we didn't get ANYTHING at Cabela's - how sad is that? Generator was very nice to have to do a couple quick breakfasts using the microwave :)


PDI went pretty well. I will post a list later to give you some ideas of what to look for.

The unit looks great and after the first couple nights of having to vacate it so they could work on it, finally feels like it is ours.

First time ever towing a fifth wheel, and first time with the new diesel... WOW is all I can say. The truck was hardly working at all to tow the Montana. I could go 65ish and it was barely doing 1600 rpms - that was nice. Could accelerate uphill with ease. Even had to pass a few semis going up hill and the pickup just cruised up the hills with little effort. Anyone even REMOTELY debating getting a diesel - DO IT!

Kris and I wanted to give a big thank you again to everyone who has helped us out on here. Just reading and listening gave us so much information to use on the walkthrough and made it seem so easy as we had heard a lot of it already here on the forum. Just little things even, like we couldn't get hot water with the electric side of the water heater. Thought hey, they've talked about that on the forum. Go out and see if the switch is on at the water heater - voila, switch was off and we felt smug as we "fixed" our first "problem" with the trailer :)

Will post more later as we get acquainted with the unit, but so far it seems to be in good shape!