Where is quality?????

rgatijnet1 wrote:
I watched a show the other day that showed an automobile manufacturing facility. ALL of their different models, from the cheapest to the most expensive, went down the same assembly line. In other words, the SAME guys installed the various components in the cheapest as well as the most expensive model. The same quality level, as far as the labor function, was used on ALL vehicles, regardless of the sales price.
I guess what some here seem to be implying is that the various RV manufacturers use less experienced labor to assemble their cheap RV's and highly trained assemblers on their high end products, thus the buyer should expect to have more assembly problems/thus poor quality, on the less expensive RV's. Basically a recipe for failure.

The ONLY Manufacturer(OLD Monaco that went out of business in 2008)used different skill levels at the Plants. The Signature series Monaco's were built by long time Plant workers that had demonstrated good skill levels. Other Monaco's were built by the standard employees that as time went on and increased their skill level could move up to the Signature line. Other OEM's, do NOT segregate workers based on skill level. One exception is Newmar. As of 2009(last time we were a dealer and knew how their production line ran) ALL the Newmar's including towables were built on the same production line and building and assembled by the same production workers. The only thing that changes were the materials used, depending on the model and what they were building. Doug