All New LM365 Newport

[TomMontague]

That's fair - I can assure you that I appreciate the feedback and I will promise to look into it. If there is a better way I will consider it. I'm always looking at ways to improve the product and feedback from folks like you who use it everyday is always appreciated.

Talk soon
Tom


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[kakampers]

Thanks Tom...that's all anyone can ask...

 

[porthole]

If you need to haul 1200 lbs of water around then see the fifth wheels I mentioned above or shop around for a quality tag-axle motorhome that can handle weight. Then your all set.

Then maybe some weight can be saved by installing a 25 gallon tank.

What we as consumers need besides having the pretty darn good factory support we enjoy, is for some of the folks that design and build these things to start using them.

Drag a trailer around for 10 weeks out of the year and live in it - then some of the things that are brought up here will turn the light on.

 

[TomMontague]

I just might take you up on that challenge. Let me see what I can do about spending all show season towing and living in a Landmark365. Maybe I can also do a blog about my product, my journey and my experiences on the road.

Talk soon.
Tom

 

[kakampers]

I agree Duane...why do we have 104 gallon fresh water tanks?? If it's expected that everyone stays hooked up to water all the time...there would be no need for a tank at all. My thought is that we have tanks in order to "carry" water from one place to another...

 

[kakampers]

Tom....I guarantee that will give you a whole new perspective on what is truly needed in a full time rig...

 

[codycarver]

Then maybe some weight can be saved by installing a 25 gallon tank.

What we as consumers need besides having the pretty darn good factory support we enjoy, is for some of the folks that design and build these things to start using them.

Drag a trailer around for 10 weeks out of the year and live in it - then some of the things that are brought up here will turn the light on.

Ding Ding Ding!!!! Get that man a cigar. Just got back from a rally and some of us had the same exact conversation.

 

[TravelTiger]

That would be a great perspective! I know that we have learned a lot about what a full-time rig should have, ever since we decided to use our ElkRidge as temporary housing due to a job change. Our ER is the perfect vacationing rig for us, but I can see there are many great full-time features the big three have that we don't: Storage, insulation, and tank sizes, just to name a few. But having a strong foundation (meaning frame, running gear, tires) is probably the most important, if-and-when we go to a larger rig.


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[porthole]

I just might take you up on that challenge. Let me see what I can do about spending all show season towing and living in a Landmark365. Maybe I can also do a blog about my product, my journey and my experiences on the road.

Work on it - we all win!

 

[here4now]

The first four floor plans are our biggest - then I will release ( with everyone's input ) 3 more floor plans from 36-39 feet long and once those are out we will then have one or two 34-36 footers. Hopefully something for everyone and carrying capacity shouldn't be an issue with the models coming ... Hope this helps.


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That's good news, and it's encouraging that future floor plans will have more CCC; but it doesn't help us.

We're ready to buy NOW. I wish Landmark had mixed it up a little instead of working on all the biggest floor plans first. We're looking in the 37-39' range and for 3-4000 lb CCC.

 

[murry135]

Looks like I brought out some good points with my previous posts. Regarding JB, he just changed in the past few months his Correct Track hardware for that failed while he was on the road, so he is not impervious to failures either. All I was asking and try to say is TOM, try to entertain some of these ideas don't shoot them down right away. We make or state these ideas cause we want to stay with Heartland and not go to other manufactures and are suggesting things that we see in other units and feel would and can be incorporated into out units. QC some how some way needs to be improved above the industry standards, not made to be perfect, that is what I am asking. Offer options and if we want it we will pay for it, don't make decisions for options we want that you think we don't need. It appears that now a few ideas have come forth that maybe looked at and a possibility where just a few short post ago they were not. Lets move forward as a group to put the best unit out there and we all can be proud to say it was owner ingenuity. In review of this post I guess I am saying I am willing to pay more to custom design my coach with options that Heartland makes available regardless of pricing. Tom, I understand it is your job to put a unit out there that is better than others but price competative, a hard task. Maybe a different approach should be looked at by Heartland for the Landmarks since there are many other choices within Heartland for 5er's.

 

[jbeletti]

Looks like I brought out some good points with my previous posts. Regarding JB, he just changed in the past few months his Correct Track hardware for that failed while he was on the road, so he is not impervious to failures either.

Jim - I lost a nut on the bolt that held the spring eye in the hanger. The nut was part of the Correct Track bolt/cam. Why it fell off... Probably under-torquing at our plant. More likely that, than a Correct Track product failure. But yes, still a failure "on the road".

 

[murry135]

Thanks for correcting me on that matter. I just remember you looking for parts prior to Urbana.

 

[chaplady]

Both side bring out good points. Working in a manufacturing environment and providing to customers with good quality products is tough today. There are internal ways to do so by understanding why defects occur taking variability out of production process , work with vendors to improve since heartland is not making parts but assembling them, training employees to improve skills. Most cases minimum cost maybe even savings and improved product consistency. Happy customer happy company win win.
Bill

 

[dave10a]

I will be trading my trailer in for a new one in the near future. I have one question: why is the unit empty wieght and GVW much higher than earlier Landmarks like mine? My srw truck is at maximum pull weight for my present trailer and the new Landmark puts it out of limits form my present truck.

 

[jnspenc]

Can you tell me the pros and cons of the third air conditioner for the Newport? Wife and I are deliberating between that and the fantastic fan for air flow.


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[Bryced15]

We went with the 3rd a/c and had the fantastic vent put in the 1/2 bath as a compromise since we wanted both also.

 

[danemayer]

Hi jnspenc,

My experience in hot climates, like Texas, is that it can be difficult to keep the inside temperature as cool as you might keep a house. It can be done, but I usually have to get ahead of the afternoon sun by dropping the thermostat into the 60s in the morning. I also have to run the bedroom A/C at a very cool setting most of the day to help. I would think it would be much simpler and faster if there were 2 A/C units in the living area.

And after towing all day, on a hot afternoon it can take hours to cool our Landmark. I'm sure a 3rd A/C unit would make that a non-issue.

 

[dave10a]

I guess no one wants to answer my question about GVW of the LM365.

 

[jnspenc]

Thanks so much for response, we do stay in Texas (Grandma needs to be near Grand Kids LOL) during summer, which really wasn't our plan (refer to above). I placed the order for the third A/C and fan in second bathroom as suggested by Bryced15. Thanks again for input.


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