{"id":3189,"date":"2015-07-26T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2018-11-30T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:35:41","slug":"our-new-heartland-big-horn-3875fb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/26\/our-new-heartland-big-horn-3875fb\/","title":{"rendered":"Our new Heartland BigHorn 3875FB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our new 3875FB<\/p><\/div>\n

Yes, we traded in Patience – our Open Range 399BHS –\u00a0in favor of\u00a0a brand spanking new Heartland Big Horn 3875FB. We plan to travel for at least 3 more years and, with the sale of the house, felt justified in upgrading to a unit that better fit our current needs. We don’t have a separate bunkhouse bedroom for guests now, which was great when the grandkids visited, but was used too seldom to justify the use of that space. We opted for a unit which provides\u00a0a larger, more comfortable living\u00a0space\u00a0for Jett and me.<\/p>\n

Our new home has just one bedroom, but it equipped with a king size bed and a better TV – the two things Jett needs for a good night’s sleep. It has a bath-and-a-half, as did the Open Range, but the full bath is more spacious (and is, in fact, larger than the main bath in our house) and the half bath is much more comfortable (and with more storage) than the old one. The kitchen boasts a full-size side-by-side residential refrigerator and a larger convection microwave. The living room has a full-size sofa which is great for napping, two wonderful recliners and a very nice 46″ television with Blu-Ray DVD player. There are more windows, two air conditioners, LED lighting and outlets everywhere.\u00a0 The storage is amazing, both in the living area and in the basement. The main slides are hydraulic (no more snapped cables!), the stabilizers are hydraulic and self-leveling and the electric umbilical is on a powered reel. Rather than wrestling with a stiff power line on a cold morning, I can now just press a button! Ah, heaven!<\/p>\n

All-in-all, we are very happy with the layout and the general living comfort of the new RV.\u00a0 To see what I am talking about, view this video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But…<\/p>\n

The “initial quality” of the workmanship has been a disappointment. The very first time we dropped the hydraulic landing legs, one of the hydraulic pistons leaked. In the two months since that day we have encountered the following problems:<\/p>\n