When we talk about quality issues with RV's I think most of the issues relate to poor design or Mfg processes. If you think about it even in lower cost cars like a KIa you don't hear about leaking windows,roof's or windshields. you don't hear about doors not fitting or holes in the floor letting in hot air. The difference is that the auto industry sells an order of magnitude more cars than RV Mfg's sell RVs and the spend a lot more money up front for production tooling and NC processes(non recurring costs) in order to reduce the cost or the car (recurring cost). When the small number of units built does not justify spending this non recurring money you have to rely on a worker doing things by hand rather than hard tooling or NC processes. If a worker is asked to cut out a door or window aperture by hand and another uses a template(hard tooling) or an NC machine which will produce a more accurate product for less man hrs? Until the industry consolidates and orders increase for the same RV, we will be stuck with these problems. Prototype(small number or units) cars, aircraft, and RV's will always cost more and have more Mfg problems that production units. Auto workers are not better or more skilled than RV workers they just have better tooling and processes to work with. I would like to find which Mfg sells the most units on a single model.
