Light Weight Trailer
Our experience as new RV campers We purchased a new 2015 Jayco White Hawk Ultra Lite Travel Trailer (TT). During 6 months of owning the unit we experience more failures than expected and horrible...
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#1nobby wrote:
I'm a mechanic / millwright by trade.
Spotting junk is second nature to me......it won't be like that for everyone.
I, too, am new to RVing....I looked at "new" in my budget and found. a lot of junk....mostly junk, actually.
If you want any semblance of quality....you have to have a larger budget.
I'm also a mechanic by trade and am in the market to buy my first RV. So far I've only looked at one brand, the Palomino Palomini and what I saw was short cuts in construction just about everywhere (I'm also a wood worker).
The problem with increasing your budget is that you may or may not get better quality. My biggest prerequisites for an RV is the floor plan and it's weight (my tow capacity). What I've found is in my weight range and floor plans almost all TTs look to be the same configuration and I'm concerned that the quality will be the same. Increasing my budget gets me a bigger unit but may not be better quality.
I'm looking at an R-Pod and Surveyor this evening (TT and HTT) so that will give me something more to compare. What I'm finding is that the majority of these brands are all made by one or two manufacturers, can the quality be there in one line like the Surveyor and not another like the Palomino (both made by Forest River)?
