New travel trailer expectations
Hello fellow campers. Purchased a new travel trailer last week. First trip for the 4 the weekend. Fresh water tank fell out at mile 105 and was drug down the interstate until fellow motorist flagged u...
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That's terrible to have happen on a new TT and shouldn't happen, but things like this do happen, and even worse sometimes.
I think the reason they have so many enclosed underbellies these days is that it hides all sorts of poor workmanship. Then they throw in a duct off the furnace and call it an "enclosed and heated underbelly" like it's worth a ton of money and a it's a BIG feature.
Being sarcastic, but I do think if owners pulled off their underbelly coroplast, they'd be shocked at some of the things they'd find.
Owner's manuals don't say not to travel with anything in your holding tanks and many do, but I've read a lot of reports of tanks falling out or poorly supported. Personally I wouldn't want to travel very far with anything in our tanks, but we don't dry camp and that's easy for us to do.
When you buy your first RV, there's an expectation that they are reasonably well designed, reasonably well-built, have QC programs at the plant, that there are codes and standards that have to be complied with, etc., similar to the automotive world. Not the case though. Doesn't take long before one starts to find out what the RV world is really like. In just 3 years of owning TTs, we've had to deal with things I could never have imagined in my worst nightmares. All is good now fortunately.
I think the reason they have so many enclosed underbellies these days is that it hides all sorts of poor workmanship. Then they throw in a duct off the furnace and call it an "enclosed and heated underbelly" like it's worth a ton of money and a it's a BIG feature.
Being sarcastic, but I do think if owners pulled off their underbelly coroplast, they'd be shocked at some of the things they'd find.
Owner's manuals don't say not to travel with anything in your holding tanks and many do, but I've read a lot of reports of tanks falling out or poorly supported. Personally I wouldn't want to travel very far with anything in our tanks, but we don't dry camp and that's easy for us to do.
When you buy your first RV, there's an expectation that they are reasonably well designed, reasonably well-built, have QC programs at the plant, that there are codes and standards that have to be complied with, etc., similar to the automotive world. Not the case though. Doesn't take long before one starts to find out what the RV world is really like. In just 3 years of owning TTs, we've had to deal with things I could never have imagined in my worst nightmares. All is good now fortunately.
