shepstone wrote:
azdryheat wrote:
From much time spent on RV forums plus my own experiences I have to say that quality control is severely lacking in the trailer industry. I found so much shoddy workmanship on my own toy hauler, which I bought new, that I'll never buy another one (Voltage). After 2 years mine is finally right. Most other brands have similar complaints. Don't buy new. Get one a few years old, like mine, that has had the bugs worked out of it. You don't want the hassles of a new one.
I do agree with you, but after ours and the problems we had in the first year I had to keep a close watch on it usually checking after any rainstorm for leaks and found that one of the windows leaked to the inside and 3 others literally had no drain holes on the outside and water built up in the window wells to the point of overflowing . If it had been a used unit kept in a storage compound, the previous owners may have missed that and now it would have water damage and out of warrantee. So I suppose in this case there is an argument for buying new.
I guess that another case scenario could be that the owner of the new unit got fed up with the problems that were never resolved and got rid of it to buy another. So then, the next owner would be taking on the problems of the first owner. I hope that a super-thorough PDI could spot these problems though....
