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Post by hhawk55 on Jul 29, 2018 7:55:16 GMT -5
My wife and I are looking at moving to full-time living and have been considering the Durango Gold 384RLT. One thing we haven’t been able to look at in person is the access to the unit when the slides are closed. With the door in the slide and the island, is there entry to the unit without extending the slide? Thank you for any information on this...
Howard Hawkins
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Post by jetzen on Jul 29, 2018 8:17:17 GMT -5
My wife and I are looking at moving to full-time living and have been considering the Durango Gold 384RLT. One thing we haven’t been able to look at in person is the access to the unit when the slides are closed. With the door in the slide and the island, is there entry to the unit without extending the slide? Thank you for any information on this... Howard Hawkins Let me try to answer your question. The DW and I long time in our G384, spending 6 months of the year in it. For us everything we need is accessible without opening any slides. We have the residential refrigerator and with that option you get an inverter. To me this is the preferred option for full time/part time use over the RV refrigerator as it not only will keep your refrigerated and frozen contents better, is it less likely to have a failure as the Norcold refrigerators are prone to have.
When we are on the road we have access to the bedroom, bathroom, pantry, refrigerator, stove top. The electrical outlet that is on the kitchen wall by the refrigerator is powered because of the invertor and you can run a small appliance like a toaster or coffee maker off of that outlet. A portion of the lower cabinet on the left side of the range/oven is accessible as is all the upper kitchen cabinets, and all of the living room is accessible. Access to the island drawers is limited as is the silverware drawer and the trash receptacle. There is no access to the island cabinet doors. The dining room table has a travel position. The washer dryer closet is not accessible. The Microwave does not work but you could probably plug it into the wall outlet but you would most likely reach the limit of the inverter.
You must enter the bedroom through the bathroom, if you lift the bed platform you will have access to the chest of drawers and cabinet doors and can walk around the bed if you duck you head. You can also access the other cabinet to the left of the bed and also the front closet.
The G384 is almost the perfect long time, full time unit JMHO
Hope this helps.
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Post by rvdude on Jul 29, 2018 8:48:15 GMT -5
Yeah... what Jetzen said. I live in my 384RLT full time and I also travel with it. I also have the residential refrigerator and there is easy access to almost everything in the trailer with the slides closed. I think you will find it to be a great trailer for full time living. Good luck with your decision and purchase.
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Post by Chuck on Jul 31, 2018 9:35:15 GMT -5
We also own a 384RLT but only part time in it, but as the other stated you can get to most everything ... We carry plastic silverware in the panty do to the fact you can not open the silverware draw nor the draws on the island when the slides are closed ... We have the RV frig an you still can get into it with the slides closed. the RV frig dozen't have a ice maker like the residential refrigerator but seems to keep everything we believe just as cold even thought there are reports that the freezer in some case's dozen't freeze ice cream as well ... We have not found any problems in camp sites nor rest area's getting into our trailer. you just have to be a little more careful when setting up, watch for tree branch's etc ... We have found that allot of camp ground the cement slab was made for trailers were the steps are before the slide, thus most of the time the cement slab is forward of the door an your forward awing works great for this ... I can truly say after now eleven thousand miles an a year an a half our 384 had worked out well for us, have we had some problems. yes, but so far they are minor an Kz has stepped up to the plate an fixed stuff, our dealer not so much ... Best advice I can give you is make sure you find a dealer who will stand behind you an your trailer, there are to many owners who have found out that their dealer may have great sales staff but their service department is not what it's stated to be cracked up to be, thus long waits on repairs
an repairs not up to standards they should be ... Safe travels an check out the Durango Folder here on the form, lots of great info  Chuck |
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