The Ultimate DIY thread - Ubuilding (Pics)
Hey all, There is another, albeit smaller, side to this whole RV thing - those crazy folks who build their own for whatever reason. Whether you've scratch-built it from the ground up, assembled a kit...
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Hey cargo, thanks for posting that. I bookmarked and I'll poke around your site tonight...even if it's just to poach ideas !
Sonic, Checking out your mods next - that's exactly what got me started...especially after a tow driver lifted the nose of my Dodge C too high and the tin on the back wall dug into the lawn and pulled the back wall off. Reworking it was no big deal skills-wise,(though it was a pain to have to do it) but it showed me how shoddily mine was put together.
That's not to suggest all (or even most) commercially built RVs are, but from the outside it can be difficult to tell if you've got a lemon. Mine showed great or I wouldn't have bought it, and since then I've poked around some of the well known brands and seen things like underbody electrical connections and bare OSB skirting exposed to road spray.
If one has the skills and the desire, there is absolutely no reason NOT to build one. I always check out U-builds when I see them and, if there's one thing that's consistent: they're overbuilt, probably because any reasonable person will increase the safety margin when working in unfamiliar territory.
Being able to get exactly what you want out the other side of the project is the biggest plus for me as well. Again, that's not to rip on folks who buy/restore commercially built units or prefer to buy a pre-engineered, pre-built solution: different strokes and all that.
Sonic, Checking out your mods next - that's exactly what got me started...especially after a tow driver lifted the nose of my Dodge C too high and the tin on the back wall dug into the lawn and pulled the back wall off. Reworking it was no big deal skills-wise,(though it was a pain to have to do it) but it showed me how shoddily mine was put together.
That's not to suggest all (or even most) commercially built RVs are, but from the outside it can be difficult to tell if you've got a lemon. Mine showed great or I wouldn't have bought it, and since then I've poked around some of the well known brands and seen things like underbody electrical connections and bare OSB skirting exposed to road spray.
If one has the skills and the desire, there is absolutely no reason NOT to build one. I always check out U-builds when I see them and, if there's one thing that's consistent: they're overbuilt, probably because any reasonable person will increase the safety margin when working in unfamiliar territory.
Being able to get exactly what you want out the other side of the project is the biggest plus for me as well. Again, that's not to rip on folks who buy/restore commercially built units or prefer to buy a pre-engineered, pre-built solution: different strokes and all that.
