tgreening wrote:
Dave Wilburn wrote:
Expecting perfection on something this big and complicated at this price point is a lost cause.
There are RV manufactures that offer lifetime warranties, but you have to write a check in the deep 7 digits.
I'd have to disagree with this. Your average car is WAY more complicated than any normal RV, can cost way less as well, and offers 5 times the warranty at a minimum. Factor in that most vehicles will see mileage that makes most RVs road time pale in comparison and that warranty difference becomes even greater. My last truck cost $33,000, had 66,000 miles on it when I sold it, and had not one single failure that wasn't a wear item, IE tires/brakes/batteries.
You can build a fairly nice HOUSE, on LAND, FURNISHED, for the cost of a middle of the market RV.
Construction quality is crap, plain and simple. You need only pull off a basement wall to view the mess behind it to realize how much pride in work there is in the RV industry.
Very true. I work with a guy who worked in the industry. Bottom line they build them to sell them. The staples and glue only have to work for 12 months. Low skilled workers on a production line.