Quality...

You guys that keep talking about us not being able to define quality............. you are getting on my nerves. Many of us can tell if a car or a motorhome or a house or clothes or shoes or vacations or jewelry or.....etc, etc is of good, or excellent quality. And, some of us even know where to find most of these items. SO, read my lips, speaking for myself, I have NEVER been able to afford the highest quality. I have always looked for quality that I can live with, and that I can afford. It pretty much describes every material thing that I have. This includes my nice big motorhome. It's a keeper, now that I've redone some of the bonehead design deficiencies and fixed most of the factory screwups. There's no need in describing all these negative discoveries, heck it was designed/built back in 2003. By now, they probably produce a better product. I'll never find out.

I would not let anything said on the forum get on your nerves. I certainly don't. We all define quality differently. Heck, we all see the world differently. I don't own an Airstream. But, to me, something that has been manufactured since the mid 1930's and 65-70 percent of those products are still on the road at least gives me some kind of clue that they probably were and possibly still are made well. I like things that last longer than the payments. I also expect everything complicated like an RV with two water systems, two electrical systems and something that bounces down the road may have some initial break in issues. So do nuclear subs, so do Boeing jets and most other products that are complicated. That in no way defines quality to me and apparently neither to you as you fixed some initial stuff and now your RV works just fine. It would be nice if those that made RVs actually used them. Maybe we would have better bathrooms and more workable kitchens, but they are what they are. Prevost makes a good product, Arctic Fox is considered by many to be a cut above normal RV quality, so are Eagle Cap, Chalet, and Alaskan campers last decades with minimal issues, and many like Montanas as they say they are the best selling fifth wheel. There must be something right about them. But, rarely, is anything as RV iconic as Airstream. So, I used AS in my analogys and discussions. If people disagree with me, so be it. I could not care.

Many that own RV's see them as one step above sleeping on the ground. If that is an RV to them, that is fine. They don't get on my nerves and I learned long ago not to expect everybody or even anybody to agree with me. And I have not been disappointed.