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Anyone ever price out installing a slide-out in their bus?  Anyone ever installed a slide-out in their bus? Pros/cons (other than price)?
Cliff I know you've got slide-outs in your CC, are they a game changer for you or not really?

Slides are a game changer, me personally I will never buy another RV without slides but I do think 4 slide are a over kill. I fought slides for years with my wife before giving up saying she was right. Installing slides in a bus unless it is a Eagle is cost prohibited Gary at B&B Coach in Vegas did slides for around $3000.00 a foot unfished, but he never would do a MCI. A 12 ft slide would cost you 50 + grand now. For another 50 grand you can buy a Prevost with factory slides and a series 60.A good friend of mine has the only MCI that they ever made with a slide his is a MCI J model, he has for sale asking $345,000.00.I am looking at Newells with C-15 Cat but all I can find with the Cat C-15 are equipped with the funky 10 speed Z/F transmission and I don't want the Z/F transmission       

Quote from: luvrbus on July 01, 2026, 02:41:52 AMSlides are a game changer, me personally I will never buy another RV without slides but I do think 4 slide are a over kill. I fought slides for years with my wife before giving up saying she was right. Installing slides in a bus unless it is a Eagle is cost prohibited Gary at B&B Coach in Vegas did slides for around $3000.00 a foot unfished, but he never would do a MCI. A 12 ft slide would cost you 50 + grand now. For another 50 grand you can buy a Prevost with factory slides and a series 60.A good friend of mine has the only MCI that they ever made with a slide his is a MCI J model, he has for sale asking $345,000.00.I am looking at Newells with C-15 Cat but all I can find with the Cat C-15 are equipped with the funky 10 speed Z/F transmission and I don't want the Z/F transmission       

Dang I was afraid you were going to say that Cliff!!  You have a CC Magna right?  Why do you want to switch from CC to a Newell?  What if you could get a double slide-out bus conversion in similar condition/year/price as a Newell, would you still go the Newell route?  Why?

I sold the CC it was a nice drive with Cummins Ix15 600 hp but I got tired of all the electronics with one wire (multi/plex) controlling 2 different functions you had 1 remote that controlled every thing in the coach.I will say it was the only RV I never lost money on selling it sold in 1 day and I made money. I am going the Newell route they are built in house from the ground up only problem is they are all custom built when ordered and it can get frustrating trying to find one with a floor plan you like   

What year was your CC? What year Newell's are you looking at?
Bringing it back to Bus conversions – is it really that much more expensive to maintain a bus conversion vs. a Newell (or even CC)? Because Newell's look like they've got all kinds of electronics and everything, plus they don't have the benefit of a stainless steel chassis.

The CC was a 2008 ,I want to stay with a no later than 2010 I do not want to fight with DEF emission system's on 2010 diesel engines. I am also looking at the Foretravel it is well built RV.I just don't want another bus to deal with parts made strictly for it.Gary Hatt likes his Prevost H-45 but he sheds tears as big a marbles when he buys parts from Prevost,its a nice low mileage bus it just set so long without use it is taking time and money to catch up from setting so long