B+ motorhomes
I just bought a Trail Lite B+ 211s with 8.1 Chevy engine. This is my fifth motorhome (others range from an old 20' Vagabond, and three Winnegagos, from 19 to 32'. This vehicle is fantastic. I am...
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Wade:
I remember studying the "rule of good enough" when I was working on a business degree many years ago. It appears that the threshhold they set wasn't high enough. I suppose that they can have a strategy of having dealers do the "finish work", anticipating that most customers won't have the wear early that I do. I am not trying to tear it up, but am surprised at the things that would have been much cheaper done on an assembly line, such as securing the back drawyers better, better reenforcement on trim pieces, more careful sealing, more accurate placement of screws, etc. I will eventually have what I bought (a quality built, economy priced motorhome), because I will insist on it, and the dealer in Boerne is anxious to make things right. But I suspect that the factory will have to pay over $3,000 correcting careless work before I am through. If that is their strategy, they won't be making them much longer, because They could be losing money on each unit built!
I remember studying the "rule of good enough" when I was working on a business degree many years ago. It appears that the threshhold they set wasn't high enough. I suppose that they can have a strategy of having dealers do the "finish work", anticipating that most customers won't have the wear early that I do. I am not trying to tear it up, but am surprised at the things that would have been much cheaper done on an assembly line, such as securing the back drawyers better, better reenforcement on trim pieces, more careful sealing, more accurate placement of screws, etc. I will eventually have what I bought (a quality built, economy priced motorhome), because I will insist on it, and the dealer in Boerne is anxious to make things right. But I suspect that the factory will have to pay over $3,000 correcting careless work before I am through. If that is their strategy, they won't be making them much longer, because They could be losing money on each unit built!
