Coachman 194BHS reviews

We purchased this trailer as an upgrade from our RPod and it’s a monster upgrade! It goes so well with our F150 and Reese weight distribution hitch - I hardly know it’s there. On its maiden voyage, we took it boondocking (dry camping). We were hit with a torrential downpour for 3 full days and the trailer was water tight - no leaks! The all terrain tires handled the logging roads perfectly! Only downfall was the amount of MUD that covered the trailer and truck due to the rains. The one thing I noted was the battery - we opted with one 12v deep cycle to reduce the tongue weight. This battery died the first night. This NEVER happed with our RPod (it ran two 6v batteries and I could dry camp for a week solid with it). I ‘think’ what happened is I ran the water pump to allow the flush toilet and running water and this drained the battery. I would highly recommend that coachman move the electronic controls in future models to be by the door and not in the bathroom - they’re just too ‘out of sight; out of mind so it’s easy to forget you left something on). We then took it for a week to a full hookup site. No issues with anything (water, sewer, water leaks due to rain, awning, etc). One thing to note is the lack of quality in all cabinet door hinges - we had to remove one door above the stove as it stripped right out. Other doors are all doing the same thing. I’ll be taking it back to the dealer to fix under warranty (I’d fix it myself by installing a dowel and re-drilling but I do t want to void my warranty). Same with the blind attachments - one of the screws stripped in the lower bunk where our son was so the blind just hangs (easy fix with a drywall anchor to give the screw something g to bite into - I had the same issue with the RPod blind screws too). This unit also came with solar but the charge controller is a Victron unit that is not Bluetooth compatible. It’s the cheapest controller that Victron produces. I’ll be upgrading this to a different model so I can see what’s happening with my solar system and battery, but that’s what I would call a trailer modification and not an ‘issue’. We had 2 nice days where the sun came out and was HOT (27C) out of 14 days (bizarre July weather this year). The Maxfan was amazing as we just cracked a window and ran the fan and this provided so much cooking we didn’t need the AC. If I was in the RPod we would have needed AC but this was amazing! The layout and floor plan on this model is incredible. A friend of mine who had had dozens of trailers over his 30 years of RVing said this layout is one of the best he’s ever seen in a trailer. I’m also pleased to see that manufacturers are now putting the dinette in the slide as opposed to a kitchen - NEVER buy a trailer that has a kitchen on a slide as you never want your hoses and pipes moving around (I’ve had several friends break pipes in their slides as their kitchen was in the slide and not the dinette). So this is an added bonus for Coachman’s designers to move away from this flaw that other trailers have! I would totally buy and recommend this trailer again or another Apex Nano model. Show less