Coachmen reviews

Great to drive, tons of space for adults to sleep and hang out. Great towing and comfort while driving. Second owner. I really enjoyed having the RV. The only reason I am looking for a new RV is we want a Driveable Toy Hauler. Show less

We bought this 5th Wheel new from RV World in Bradenton, FL. It is a 42' Chaparral. After being in it for 7 months we have found most things are in good working condition. However, we have had a problem since day one that is still not working correctly and I can't imagine others don't have the same problem. It's their Furrion thermostats. Both for A/C and for the oven. They don't work!! We are currently on thermostat #5 and it doesn't work any better than the previous 4. I bought a digital thermostat so I could know the actual temp in this trailer. It never shows the temp as being anywhere close to the actual temp and therefore, doesn't turn on. We have had the actual temp as 84 degrees and the thermostat read 56 degrees. I have a picture of the thermostats beside each other where it shows 80 and 56 degrees. You can not get the A/C to come on and it just keeps getting hotter in here. This is thermostate #5. None of the others worked either. I couldn 't get RV World or Adontis at Customer Service Rep @ Lippert, nor the Maintennce Supv at RV World in Bradenton, FL call you back sand it was 84 and rising. I had to call an outside comopany to come in and get us a/c. He got it to run temporarily and it cost us $930 because my husband was getting ready for open heart surgery and not welll enough to get the unit into Bradenton, FL. RV World eventually got someone to come out and put in thermostat #5 but it still doesn't work properly. As I said, it will go to 56 degrees and stay there and no one has touched it Then you turn it off and play with it for awile until you get it back on. It's a Royal Pain. Also problem with thermostat in oven. You can't bake anything that needs to rise because you have to turn it to 490degrees then turn it down and you might get 325 or 370 whatever it wants to do. Also if you open the oven to do cookies, you lose the temp and it may go back up and it may not. And you burn the bottoms before the top is baked. So I only use for roast or meatloaf. Something that you can test to see if it's done. Don't bake any desserts. I've ruined too many. Cheaper to buy or do without. I have no respect for RV World in Bradenton, FL, Lippert Corp, or Forrest River. Lippert and Forrest River are the companies that bought Coachman. And don't care about their customers. I'd be happy to go into more detail about the thermostat situation. I've written many emails to these companies and they don't answer. Oh and the warranty isn't worth the paper it written on. You have to take you unit into them and they fix when they get to it. Can take 6 months. And you have nothing to use. In our case, we owned sinceOctober '22 and it's still not working. Show less

Don’t think you’ll enjoy the rig outside a full hookup park. DC only refrigerators promoted as for efficiency and it could not be further from the truth. Comes with one coach battery. If you like boondocking, think Harvest Hosts, one battery gets you a refrigerator battery alarm at 2am, if you stopped driving at 5pm. Your chosise is run the Benny or turn off the refrigerator. Don’t do one of the two you wake up with a dead battery that won’t start the generator. This is a lousy design and it’s from a company counting beans, not in the real world. Show less

We purchased this new and have now used it for one season and beginning the second. Everything continues to work as intended and we have had no issues. The couch was torn at the time of purchase with the request put in for replacement. It did take a few months, but replaced without issue. Overall my husband and I are very comfortable in the bed after upgrading the mattress. We are both 6'2'' and both "fluffy" people, and it is easy enough to get in and out of the bed. No problem with pulling down the murphy bed. Dinette is useless. Storage is limited, but we find it enough for us. Love the bathroom. This would not be a good choice for a family. Show less

DO NOT BUY FOREST RIVER PRODUCTS! Absolutely horrible experiences, picked up with issues in May 2021, it went back into the shop August 2021 with over 50 items wrong include brake line issues and foundational issues (walls falling off, water heater not put in far enough so cover can't close, shower leaking from behind walls, etc), came out of the shop in March 2023 with major issues still! Forest river is cheap and want to pay out a settlement that is pennies while trying to hush us. Also, the trade in/purchase value is pennies compared to what we paid for it, to use it for two months. They threw it together without quality control and we are the ones left holding their crappy product. They do not stand behind their quality and instead want you to just go away. Don't buy their products! Show less

Poor interior panel fastening, bed panel is not reinforced. Cabinet sit area, not supported needs to be replaced. Sofa recliner foot supports poor quality , fall apart. Factory faulty motion detector floor lights, on all the time ( wear out battery ) must be removed. Storage layout in '21 model is poor designed, corrected in '23 model. Radio comes on by itself and needs to be fixed. Show less

I have owned various travel trailers and this coachman apex is by far the best. The quality of the build and workmanship exceeds my expectations . The great appliances in the trailer are all quality. Sure beats my last trailer the first time out with it we had 3 pages of fixes for the manufacture to fix. The apex to this point has had just minor fixes which can be expected. Hope it continues this way we are very pleased with floor plan and storage space this floor plan offers is great. Would I recommend this trailer for sure. Show less

I actually purchased and received a 2023 Coachmen Prism Elite 24CB. Website hasn’t been updated for current year production. I’ve had it for 2 months. Overall build and quality control is a -5 out of 10. When it was reported that the RV manufacturing industry is plagued with drug abuse and unskilled workers, the reports are 100% true. 80% of the visible screws are not in straight and flush. Sharp screw edges will definitely get your feet/socks often. Cabinet screws have splinters around them. Bunk shade controls were reversed. Black and grey tank monitors are reversed. Grey tank piping is leaking inside the RV. Grey tank piping before the dump valve was under so much stress, it just cracked. Flexible PVC piping would have worked better for the pipe angles they were trying to achieve. Heating tank pads are already coming apart. Cabin trim is coming loose. They hit one trim with 3 screws in the same area and couldn’t get it to anchor, then just moved on. RV monitoring display was shattered on a corner prior to delivery. Saw dust in every cabinet and inside the ceiling light covers. Cables under RV are exposed and dangling past the rear axle where it can get snagged and ripped out by road debris. Need to get an alignment because the steering wheel is turned more to the right for the RV to go straight. Inside TV has an issue turning on. Leveling system is not properly calibrated. Front is always lower when the system indicates it’s leveled. Exterior full body paint is flaking off. I even purchased that paint protection coat. Get yourself an old ambulance and some local drugged-out homeless workers and you’ll produce something that is a 0 out of 10. Show less

Purchased July 2018, has leaked since first rain. Started in bunkroom slide floor. Wet all around corners and side wall. Then 12' dinette and love seat slide started samething. New roof added year later. What that has to do w/slides leaking I still have no idea, and continued to leak after. Bunk room floor started coming away from wall. Collapsing. Dealership pulled slide installed new floor & fixed leaking problem. Still leaked afterward. So far warranty was paying for everything until they weren't. Dealership service got snotty and screwed us over. It was same problem over & over. Stay away from Larry's RV in Illinois. They were great until they weren't. Now while all this was happening, during winter we would get ice and condensation on walls in both slides. Inside. Dehumidifier helps but we still have to be vigilant. That was life for 4yrs. It was only after summer of 2022 that we finally saw relief w/leaking slides. A RV service tech in Indiana tore off rubber seal all around our slides. And until recently, neither slides leaked. The bunkroom still has not. Our 12' dinette and LR slide has started to sag in center. Water has started to leak through our light fixture over dinette and floor on that side under bench seat is also soaking wet. Calling in our RV service tech. Maybe he can wrk his magic again. We happen to be in same area in Indiana. We decided on a new Rig prob around end of year but we may be buyjng sooner. Coachman is owned by Forest River. This is our 2nd FR. Doubt we'll go there again. We do service maintenance once a year w/licensed tech and we routinely do our own maintenance about every 6mo. Show less