Just a rant about workmanship in RV assembly plants

You get what you pay for isn't really true. Quality control is a systemic at all levels throughout the industry. The same people who make the cheap ultra lite $10k unit also make $250,000 motorhomes and problems exist with those as well. Even Airstreams suffer from the same problems as regular TTs, you just pay more money for them. They aren't what they used to be.

A few months back I posted a video of a of a lawyer giving reasons why not to buy an RV. In that video he recounted a case where he sued an RV manufacturer. His client had paid over $200,000 for his Class A that experienced all kinds of problems. One of the most serious was when the accelerator pedal disconnected itself from the engine.

In court his client lashed out at the attorney for the manufacturer saying, "I've spent over $200,000 on this RV and this is how we get treated?" The response from the attorney was, "Sir, if all you paid was $200,000 for a RV then you should have known what you were getting. You weren't spending enough money to get a good one." A $200k Class A isn't anything to scoff at.

My beef isn't with the quality or longevity of the materials. Nor the types of materials, how they are fastened, or the overall design of systems in the trailer. It's with the actual assembly. Despite the fact that a trailer is made with cheap materials, it should be put together correctly. These aren't custom or one off units. These are boxes that come with direction on how to build them. Place x amount of screws here, place sealant here, glue pipe joints before installation. Every trailer of a specific model that comes off the line should be a almost carbon copy of the last assembly wise. I'm not saying that these will be perfect units because things will get missed from time to time even with increased inspection. However, reports of these factory blunders should show up a lot less frequently than they do.

I purchased my car for less than $10k brand new. It was one of the cheapest new cars you could buy at the time and significantly less than the cost of my current trailer. Nine years later I have yet to find one item on that car that I can attribute to an assembly line failure. My cheap little $10k car was assembled just as well as the $37k SUV from the same manufacturer.