ever feel like we need some Japanese RV manufactures

i5trucker wrote:
Shipping large vehicles across the ocean is probably cost prohibitive. That is why semi trucks and trailers are built in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Although, John Deere and several others make heavy machinery in Japan and ship it via ocean containers.

Just because it's Japanese or German does not mean it would be built there.

Honda, Kawasaki, Kia, Mercedes, among others build vehicles in the US.

Look at beer, a lot of company's have been sold to foreign owners.

Look at Chrysler, foreign owners.

Just because it's owned by a foreign company doesn't mean it won't be built here.

I had the impression that build quality was a lot better in the fiberglass trailers. Is that wrong?

I think part of the issue is consumers demanding bigger yet lighter units. Gotta cut corners somewhere to get that. Also, you gotta keep the price relatively low for a non essential item.

What we need is buyer's to stop buying the******out there and force the manufacturers clean up their act.

Denny

Shipping large vehicles across the ocean is probably cost prohibitive. That is why semi trucks and trailers are built in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Although, John Deere and several others make heavy machinery in Japan and ship it via ocean containers.

Yep, it appears that they are stuck in the 70s as no one really has entered the market making a better unit to change the game.

The playbook is there. Quality is free if you will change from thinking on the back side (quality control) to quality assurance (building quality into the product is it is built).

I just got into it with my dealer this past week. My wet storage box with the slide controller was the issue. FR said to silicone it and vent it. They opted to silicone it call it fixed. This, of course, made it worse as they didn't stop the leak but they did good enough to almost eliminate the vent.

They said that they followed FR's instructions. The whole thing made me furious as the leak was the issue and needed to be fixed.

Perfect example of not understanding that fixing the root cause reduces their overtime by reducing repeat trips for the same problem, improves their reputation and makes their customer happy.

How about Chinese RV's?

Then maybe the ones built here wouldn't seem so bad.

Yes, quality control in RV's seems to be nonexistant, unfortunately.

No German