Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 12, 2025 ...

Hey Folks,

We had a 2007 Foretravel Nimbus and had many problems with the exterior paint work. First, we had terrible crazing (hope I spelled this correct) around the entire coach. We had Foretravel repair this during warranty and after warranty - a total of five years. We also had a serious delamentation under the drivers window because of a water leak. The window itself did not leak but where the front cap met the sidewall, there the water came in. They (Foretravel) assumed the glue to hold the trim piece covering the seam would keep water out. Apparently, using limited glue on the trim did not work. This explained to me why Foretravel repaired the other trim pieces found where the rear cap and side walls met. When we had the delamination issue in year seven, we assumed Foretravel would cover this repair since it was not good for their reputation. At first the warranty manager stated it was not their problem but after hours of debate, they did cover the cost. I also saw two other Nimbus 2007 coaches at Foretravel with the same issues. Some were built in the spring of 2006 like mine and some we built in late 2007. I have now sold my coach and went to Prevost with my needs. I too had wondered about this problem when we were thinking of either buying an IH or Prevost. Since most IH at the time were painted black, we were very nervous of a similar problem.

To the best of my knowledge:

Pre-2000:  U280, U300, U270, U295, U320 are "no-slide" with truss steel structure in walls and no frame rails at all. Very weight efficient structure.  No frame rails means great basement storage and tanks can be simple rectangular shape and thus larger that if you had a frame rail to work around.

2000-2001 "one slide coaches": Same as above but had to add a truss structure under the floor on drivers side (side with slide).  The truss is located all the way outboard on driver side and greatly hampers basement access on that side - I would imagine full extension joey beds were popular on the passenger side.

2002 -today "multi-slide": Frame rails added.  Just too many "holes" in structure otherwise.

Something else to note:  Foretravel also made their own suspension - the 8 outboard air bag system (tag will have 10).  Started with the first U300 in 1987(?) and I think is still used (largely unchanged) on the rear suspension on today's coaches.  Obviously was replaced with IFS on the front axle.  One thing that seems to go unsung, is how reliable these suspensions are.  I can't recall any posts regarding issues with these (OK Michelle, see if you can find one?)  Very stout built.  I don't think even Country Coach ever built their own suspension - Monaco did copy it for a while on their Signatures.

I've been on the road in a couple high end and fairly new SOB's. Our '89 u280 rides better.

This was exactly the thread I was looking for. One problem it refers heavily to Barry Beam and the link is gone. I looked for Barry's website it too has gone. Does anyone know if that chassis information has been imported to this forum anyhwere?Thanks in advance!

2000-2001 "one slide coaches": Same as above but had to add a truss structure under the floor on drivers side (side with slide).  The truss is located all the way outboard on driver side and greatly hampers basement access on that side - I would imagine full extension joey beds were popular on the passenger side.