This review is for NIRVC in Manassas, Virginia. It does not necessarily apply to other locations of NIRVC. This is a long and sordid story of lies and incompetence from a person who bought a 6-figure RV at this location on June 13, 2024.
It started with my inspection. I paid a very capable and well-respected inspector to look over this unit, and the result was a fair list of issues. To start, the black and grey tanks were 60% full and had a sewer smell. [Now, true story: after I arrived at NIRVC, I stood and watched from 6 feet away while the technician drained the black tank in the back of the gravel lot, in front of me. I mean, yes, drained into the gravel. They don't have a dump station at this location. But I've gotten ahead of myself; let's rewind to before I arrived.] I was in Indiana when my inspector found a number of problems. The black tank/sewer smell was just the first one. The Firefly system was completely messed up. The solar was programmed for AGM batteries instead of Lithium. The air conditioner was dumping water into the unit. The rear radio didn't work. And that's about half of the issues (heater, awning, etc etc). Purchase was conditional on resolving these issues.
I was assured that if I just come on out, all the issues will be resolved when I get there. Take a flying leap and we'll catch you? I don't think so! I didn't trust that. After I was assured that all the issues were resolved, I hired a second inspector - a different one. His task was to focus only on the listed issues - were they resolved, or not? The answer was no, the issues were not resolved. The rear radio: they claimed that the reason it was not getting any stations is that the warehouse didn't have good reception. The second inspector got stations on the front radio, and none on the rear. Later, after I was onsite, the head of the service department confessed to me that they replaced the front antenna, not the rear. They replaced the wrong antenna!
The day that I bought the unit, we sat around for hours waiting for the tech folks to arrive. They were so late getting my walkthrough and final inspection that time ran out; I was forced to either purchase the unit, five minutes before the time for wire transfers ended for the day, or find a place to sleep for the night and transportation to get there. I was exhausted. I bought the unit. I drove off with an air conditioner that leaks water into the inside hallway of the unit. I later paid for a replacement to the air conditioner that they didn't fix. The unit was also not capable of charging when plugged into shore power because the FireFly was never correctly programmed. And, to this day the rear radio gives nothing but static. Also, my walkthrough was so bad that I had to unlearn all the incorrect things they taught me.
Fun sidebar, though certainly not the most damaging part of this experience: I was told -- very clearly -- that they changed the oil. Recently a reminder came on screen that an oil change was needed. Maybe they changed it, but just forgot to set the counter? I sent a text to my sales rep there, asked very nicely if they forgot to set the counter or maybe forgot to change the oil. I never got a response. That was 25 days ago. I had the oil changed, and the tech that did my change gave me a damning piece of evidence: the oil filter was the original factory installed filter. They did not change the oil.
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