I have a question for you who own older PCs with full body paint and store your PC outside without a covering of any kind.
How is the paint work holding up to the elements?
I ask because I saw a full body paint 2007 PC (same year and paint as our PC) for sale on the internet earlier this year. The painted surfaces that faced up toward the sky was badly sun beaten, faded, and even missing. Maybe it spent it's 9 years in Death Valley unprotected.
That is something to think about.
One more thing I have noticed with some older PCs, how the Diamond Shield clean film paint chip protection on leading edges by changed color badly to a burnt brown color.
Our first motor home
HERE had a seamless gel coat unpainted fiberglass body similar in construction to a
Coach House. We bought it brand new and owned it for 24 years. The gel coat finish was loaded with imperfections from the beginning, surely not the quality finish of a typical automobile. We garaged it for all but the first 5 years. The last half of ownership, it was very difficult to maintain the finish. That is why it was important for me to have the full body paint on our next motor home, our PC.
Our 9 year old PC is garaged when we are not using it, so our paint job still looks brand new, and the Diamond Shield would look brand new too if not for a certain type of bug juice that has stained it in tiny spots. But I wonder what our PC would look like if we did not protect it so well at home.
Regarding the thermal pane glass. We ordered our PC with that 2-pane glass and it is great, especially when considering we have the big emergency window, and big rear window right next to our bed. Our first motor home, we felt the cold radiate right through the plexi-glass above us and flow right down on our heads. Keep in-mind that we do not camp in the winter time, but rather summer camping in the mountains where the nights can get down in the 40's and lower. Spring & fall are other travel times for us in recent years and of coarse the weather is more unpredictable with cold nights in many regions.
The thermal glass is also more quiet, something we appreciate a lot when staying overnight in Walmart parking lots and rest areas which can be noisy.