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TacoPuller
Sep 06, 2015Explorer
Quality is a huge issue to me, and Ardensille's $20,000 trailer experience hit home yesterday as I was fixing my own trailer. I have had my used Nomad for a few months now. On my last trip, I went on (1) dirt road, and when I got to the site, the kitchen drawers had all broken off their frames. Also, when it rains, there was a leak somewhere in the body that pools up gallons of water in the Coroplast underlayment that needs to be fixed; the smell of mold was starting to become noticeable. Yesterday I decided to work on the trailer instead of taking it on the road, and encountered all kinds of shoddy workmanship in the trailer in places you don't normally look. 6 feet of stripped, but unattached electrical wires disposed of in the underlayment, covered with aluminum and wood chips. The curves of the front of the trailer were not sealed properly, open holes were letting in rain that ran down inside the front of the trailer. White polyurethane hopefully fixes the leak, and a mold bomb hopefully 'solves' the growing mold problem; we'll see. The support for the back of the frames for the drawers was 1/2" too far away for the 'rails support', and didn't attach properly to the 2"x1"x18" piece of rough pine. Rebuilt the frame. Same thing happened to my brother's Outback trailer. The Nomad's internal luan was shaped badly around the frame members, and multiple router-cuts had to be made for it to clear the wheel-wells. Not a big problem, but is indicative of the overall mess. Aluminum chips on the floor running under and next to the power system inverter. Vibration turns that into a shorting hazard. Same thing behind the hot water heater. You can fault me all you want on my comments about workers, but what is wrong with this picture? Shouldn't everyone know that metal chips around 120VAC is probably not a good idea? And it's not just me; see the following link:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/housing/skyline_corp.html
Anyone that thinks this is acceptable is part of the problem.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/housing/skyline_corp.html
Anyone that thinks this is acceptable is part of the problem.
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