RV Parts Shipping Delay from Indiana

dclark1946 wrote:
Our trailer has been at our dealer since late Nov. waiting for a new slide floor since the original warped and started damaging the floor. On the Feb. 8 I was told the floor had already shipped.Today it still has still not arrived and I was told it was due to the weather there in Indiana. Has anyone else experienced this kind of delay for RV components shipped from that part of the country?

RV manufacturers are notorious for being cheap when it comes to shipping parts to dealers for warranty claims. They will not ship UPS, FedEx, or in the case of something oversize motor freight, if they can get out of it.

They will wait until they have a new RV being delivered to the dealer then pack the parts inside. They don't care how many weeks your unit sits there waiting, as long as they can save the shipping cost.

Your floor very well could of shipped and is now packed in a trailer that is sitting in one of the large staging yards around Elkhart where the transport companies store them, and is awaiting a driver to be assigned. You won't get a tracking number.


Now if you go to some select manufacturer specific forums, one that is hosted by an amphibian comes to mind, you may run into the RV manufacturer glee club members, AKA the Kool Aid drinkers, who will swear that it's the dealer who requests those parts to be shipped that way. That's because the manufacturer is the greatest thing since sliced bread, and is in business to eliminate human suffering and to maintain international peace and security, and does no wrong lol.
Someone tried to talk the followers of Jim Jones out of dropping everything and moving to Guyana, but did not have much success either.

Since the manufacturer pays for the parts and the shipping on a warranty claim, I don't see how that could be the case.