So the comment above about the suspension upgrades is not a "mirada" thing its a ford f53 chassis thing. I absolutely recommend putting 2k or so into your suspension. I did an aux sway bar in the rear, rear track bar, safe t steering stabilizer and the CHF in the front. It made a huge difference I would highly recommend you doing those things regardless of what motorhome you get assuming its on the ford chassis.
Now, We have a 2018 Mirada 35kb. I am DEEPLY DEEPLY disappointed in the quality of this product.
I'll make a generic statement first, when I was buying mine I did a lot of research and found that regardless of the manufacturer the schwintek slides struggle with the full wall slide. I avoided one for this reason I have 2 slides instead of one large one. I'd considering that when buying a full wall slide mode.
The mirada iteself.. Has been extremely poorly assembled. I'd try to list everything.
1) There are 2 rods that go vertical that the slide uses on my front slide neither of these rods were bolted in like they should have been. Resulting in loud banging inside the walls. They had to cut the wall open to fix on both sides of the slide.
2) The metal antenna on the roof was completely loose and rattling loudly. I fixed it myself it took me all of 3 minutes to tighten the screw. No excuse that this wasn't done.
3) Multiple pieces of molding simply not nailed in, or one nail in the middle causing it drop or loosen. Almost all of it had to be tightened down.
4) Tile behind bathroom backs plash has fallen off.
5) Molding under my front slide was installed wrong during driving its vibration caused there to be a deep gash and hole in my floor.
6) Multiple pieces of weather striping around baggage doors and entry door loose and or not installed right needed to be completed replaced.
7) Wallpaper in bathroom has bubbled up and gotten loose.
8) Auto levelers didn't work and was loosing phenmatic fluid needed to reset it, re level it, and tighten connections.
9) Generator breaker trips every time i run it while i am driving. Front AC and everything on it goes out.
10) Clear coat on the full body paint is embarrassingly poor. If you look at it scratches. I'd highly recommend against spending the extra on the paint, i have multiple places where its over sprayed and like i said the quality of the clear coat is poor.
11) They literally didn't put any windshield washer fluid in the reservoir found this out when i really needed it of course.
12) Multiple small items missing, little wooden plugs that cover up the screws in the mirror, just left out.
13) Light above table just fell off during our first drive.
14) General fit and finish issues everywhere, example rubber molding in outside kitchen area cut to long but screwed in anyways so it bubbles and ripples.
15) Had the screws in the struts that hold up the baggage door for the outdoor kitchen just fall out...
16) Valve extenders leaking badly leaving us with a flat...On the rear tires.
17) Multiple things just not wired up at all. Example, the 7 pin trailer connector has no 12v constant wire for a battery charger in your toad, the energy commander that they just added in 2018 has a feature where if its on auto and the HVAC unit calls for air the energy command is supposed to turn on the generator for the HVAC to run.... simply not wired up... at all. No reason for this its 1 damn cable... You already bought all the other parts why skip this?
18) The cabinets are some sort of the wood, but the wood isn't actually paint its a tape.. Look at the cabinets around the ends and seams and you will notice its colored tape, thats actually everywhere and we have had it peal off already around the slide molding...
19) Floor has bubbled up in multiple areas..
20) Had leaks and wallpaper that was bubbling around the front slide windows...
21) multiple pieces of trim around the dinette seat has nails that were exposed under the back cushions that people cut themselves on.
Those are the actual issues I have.. I know there are more but I can't think of them right now. Here are some other subjective things.
1) The front captains chairs suck for longer drives. We plan on having to replace them. Its disappointing to pay 115k and have to replace the seats with as much as they suck.
2) The sofa is equally of poor quality.
3) I dont like the re-done "mach" or whatever dash.. and honestly I can't even put my finger on why. I'd like to have a different config of the dash plastic next to the drive to store stuff like toll change and whatever. It's not terrible, but something about it. I don't need it to be "nice" just need a more thoughtful configuration if that makes sense.
Overall, honestly if stuff worked and it wasn't slapped together as poorly as it was i'd be happier. The extremely poor craftsmanship and fit and finish really detracts from what i think otherwise would be a good coach. I did call Coachmen about multiple things and they had zero interest in helping. I spoke to Tim Buss who did everything he could to say whatever he could to get me off the phone, and stonewall me from speaking to his leadership which i never actually got to speak too because he refused to give me the info.
My wife and I really liked the fleetwood better, but the fleetwood was at a Camping world and the Mirada was at our previously used and known good dealer who really has been great to work with. We liked the the coachmen but the deciding factor was really the familiarity with the dealer. We also looked at the Newmar Bay Star at NIRVC and it was more than we wanted to spend. Had I had it to do over again I would of paid the extra money and bought the Newmar at NIRVC.
Hope this helps. I got wordy, but I feel better now after dumping too
Newmar is recalling 2,915 model year 2016-2018 Bay Star, Bay Star Sport, Canyon Star, Dutch Star, Essex, King Aire, London Aire, Mountain Aire, New Aire, Ventana and Ventana LE motorhomes. The vehicles may have a loose power connection at the Automatic Transfer Switch (ATS), possibly resulting in a build up of heat.
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