Blue Compass RV Surprise
Surprise RV dealer with new and used motorhomes, travel trailers, financing, service and parts.
Surprise has two dealerships that carry pop-up campers, and both sit on the west side where the suburbs thin out toward the desert. That is a thin field for a metro this size, so plan on a little driving to compare. The pair averages 4.3 stars across more than 1,400 reviews, which tells you people are paying attention to how they get treated after the sale.
Surprise RV dealer with new and used motorhomes, travel trailers, financing, service and parts.
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Blue Compass RV Surprise earns 4.5 stars from 523 reviews and carries new and used units, with pop-ups sharing space alongside motorhomes, travel trailers, camper vans, toy haulers and a teardrop or two. Camping World - Surprise rates 4.2 stars from 919 reviews, a bigger pile of feedback, and handles used units plus consignment and outright buys. Both offer financing, service and parts. I would walk the service bay before I signed anything. On a pop-up, the canvas, the lift system and the roof seals are what age badly, so open it all the way up in front of the salesperson and look at the corners in daylight.
Two of the dealerships here stock pop-ups, and the surrounding area adds four more stores within reasonable range, so inventory is not the problem. The catch with a folding camper is that the parts that fail are soft parts: canvas, seams, bungee, and the cables that raise the roof. A pre-purchase inspection by someone who works on pop-ups specifically is money well spent, even on a cheap used unit. Ask when the canvas was last replaced and whether the dealer has the receipt. Get pre-approved by your own bank before you sit down at the finance desk, because both of these dealerships offer financing in-house and the comparison is worth having in your pocket.
Surprise summers push people indoors, and pop-up shoppers tend to move in fall and spring. That means late summer is when a dealer is most willing to talk about a used pop-up that has been sitting on the asphalt. It also means you should open the roof on a hot afternoon and let it stay up for twenty minutes. Heat and sun do a number on canvas and plastic vents, and a unit that looked fine in the shade can show cracks once it warms through. The two local dealerships both run service departments, so ask what their wait is for canvas work before you assume you will be taken care of quickly.
Two dealerships in Surprise carry pop-up campers: Blue Compass RV Surprise and Camping World - Surprise. Another four dealers are within driving range if the local pair does not have the floor plan you want.
Blue Compass RV Surprise rates 4.5 stars from 523 reviews. Camping World - Surprise sits at 4.2 stars from 919 reviews. The average across both is 4.3 stars, so both have solid but not perfect records.
Yes. Both Surprise dealerships offer financing, service and parts, and both handle used units. Camping World also takes consignments and buys RVs outright. It still pays to get pre-approved at your own bank before you compare their in-house numbers.
Open the roof fully and inspect the canvas, seams and roof seals in daylight. Test the lift system and look at the cables. Ask for records on canvas replacement, and pay for a pre-purchase inspection by someone who works on folding campers.