goducks10 wrote:
I never said to never buy anything. My point is why settle for an RV that has multiple visible defects? Why not look around to find one that's built better. There's a reason why when someone asks about brand X and what everyone thinks about them that you get mixed answers. Lots of those problems people list are clearly things that were overlooked before purchase. Some buyers say "we've only had a few problems" that they fix themselves and others have a page worth of stuff, of which 1/2 could've been eliminated had they moved on to another unit.
My point was to find the one with the least amount of issues.
And that's a fair enough assessment of the situation, for sure. And I was not, and am not trying to single out any one individual person when I make these comments. I suspect I would very much enjoy sitting and sharing tales and drinking a beer with each one of you.
It's just that in my life, I've have "most things" be not just less than perfect, but WAY less. I suppose I just always thought, this is the way it is :E
I've had cars that broke down ( but still I always somehow made it home ), motorcycles that left me at the side of the road ( yet I've still managed to ride almost all the lower 48 and much of Canada ), marriages that failed, had a boat that had to be towed back to the dock ( more than once, and yet we water skied many miles behind it ).
I've had cameras and lenses ( Canon ) that have failed ( but still have tens of thousands of images I love ). I've ridden horses that really would rather toss me on the ground ( and did on more than one occasion ) than look at me...
.....and this little danged travel trailer that's had a few issues. And yet here I sit, in February, where it's 80 degrees, dry and sunny.
I think some of this whole thing is "glass half empty, or is it half full ?"
Besides.... I love tinkering and seeing how stuff is made ! :) I just fix stuff, and move on the next thing in life.
EDIT, ps, I grew up poor and most what we had, we got second hand for little or nothing, because it was broken. Dad taught us how to fix things. That taught me two things: 1. how stuff works and being able to fix it, and 2. work your backside off and make as much of a living as I could....so I didn't have to be so danged poor ! It was a good childhood education.
