New & Used RV Inspections

When searching for your “perfect” RV, you could spend countless hours, days, and weeks browsing websites, checking classified ads, going to dealerships, talking to potential sellers, researching manufacturers, styles, and layouts until it all starts to spin together. Once you finally find “the one” it can feel like such a relief! You can sometimes feel so overwhelmed that you let your emotions run away with you and jump on the first one you come across that suits your needs only to find out later that there were hidden issues either the seller didn’t disclose or may not even have realized were there themselves.

You wouldn’t buy a home with out an inspection and most of us wouldn’t buy a used car without a thorough check, why should your RV purchase be any different? Not only are you purchasing a home, you are purchasing a home on wheels, which comes with an entirely separate set of issues as these homes are essentially subjected to earthquake like conditions each and every time they are moved down the road. This factor alone can literally cause an RV to be in a different condition from one day to the next. Even with new RVs, they typically go through a pre-delivery inspection (PDI), but even then things may get overlooked or the unit may be sitting on the lot at the dealership for a very long period of time (often getting moved numerous times during its stay) which causes it to require a second look. We often find issues on brand new rigs that have come straight from the factory that the initial PDI missed, unfortunately for the consumer this is not uncommon.

An RV Inspection performed by a third-party, completely unbiased, certified inspector can give you a much better picture of the overall condition of your new potential home on the road. Sometimes the issues uncovered are minor and easily fixed by the seller/dealership or it may even be something you are able to repair yourself. Other times there may be hidden problems that are so large or expensive to repair that it causes you to walk away from that unit and continue your search, saving you thousands of dollars. Our goal is to give our clients a comprehensive report filled with observations, not opinions, that will provide you with a valuable tool for negotiations and assist you with making an educated, informed buying decision.

Our inspections adhere to the NRVIA’s strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice. These standards include several hundred points of inspection broken into various categories.

Below is just a brief list of a few of the things we will be observing during your inspection, which will take several hours to complete, you can view a more complete list by reading the NRVIA Standards of Practice above. These reports are typically well over 25 pages and include 50+ photos (depending on your package), this is not your standard dealership PDIs.