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The industry started 2026 expecting a third straight year of growth. Through the first five months, shipments ran double digits behind 2025, and the forecast has already been cut once. RVIA’s spring 2026 outlook projected wholesale shipments in a range of 328,800 to 367,000 units, a median of 349,000, building on the 342,200 units shipped in 2025. By the summer forecast update, that range had been revised down to 300,000

A remaining warranty adds real value to a unit, but only if it actually survives the sale. Dealers who assume it transfers automatically are often wrong. A unit with meaningful factory warranty or extended service contract coverage remaining is genuinely worth more at wholesale than an identical unit without it, assuming the coverage actually transfers to the next owner intact. That assumption is where a lot of dealers get the

Building a Reconditioning Vendor Network That Turns Units Fast Without Killing Your Margin The decision to recondition a unit is only half the equation. Who actually does the work, and how fast, determines whether that decision pays off. Dealers already use a framework for deciding whether a unit should be reconditioned or sold as-is. What that framework doesn’t solve is execution: once the decision is made, the unit still needs