Camping World and Forest River Parting Ways?
This is what I've heard and read. I've also heard that Camping World will no longer do warranty service on Forest River products unless they were bought from them. Does anybody have more details o...
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Bamaman1 wrote:
Forest River is owned by Berkshire Hathaway--Warren Buffet's huge investment firm. $5 million is a pittance to them. But what's scary is the government getting into the RV business.
The Feds should be more concerned with tire and brake failures currently going on with RV's. And General Motors' defective ignition switch deaths is up to 147 deaths, and I don't see the National Transportation bunch forcing them to ground those vehicles.
I have no idea of what other RV related issues the NHTSA is currently investigating, and I suspect neither do you. The Forest River penalty involves reporting failures of safety defects that could lead to death or injury. In one case, FR failed to report a fire related defect for four months and then only issued a recall when forced to do so. Also, the NHTSA does not have the power to "ground" any vehicles. They can only enforce recall procedures, they cannot force vehicle owners to actually comply with those recalls. There's an immediate temporary "fix" to the GM ignition switch issue available to every owner, yet it's not uncommon to find owners not even taking that simple precaution.
