Tequila wrote:
I spend 6 months a year in my RV in the land of a million speed bumps (Mexico). I have seen more Lippert Frame failures than I can count. More than once I have seen people in RV parks having them repared & reinforced by a visitng welder. This was the rpimary reason I bought a Northwood product. They manufacture their own frames and they are noticibly heftier.
I'm not saying that you're not seeing a lot of Lippert frame failures but one tends to see what they expect to see. You buy a black Ford truck and suddenly notice lots of other black Ford trucks.
Maybe you see more Lippert frame failures because that's what you're looking for. Maybe you tend to overlook any other frame failure because it doesn't fall in your framework. And it could be that Lippert had lots of frame failures because they make lots of frames, and a certain percentage are poorly made, or understrength frames.
And maybe people who buy Lippert frames, because of the models involved, put more miles on their frames than people of other brands. I dunno. Just seems simplistic to say "All Lippert frames are poop."
