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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qtla9111 wrote:
The problem goes much deeper. Unlike the auto industry, the rv industry is highly unregulated. It doesn't matter how much you pay or what you think the quality may be, it just isn't so.
We buy them, repair them, and hope they hold together long enough to enjoy. Like cars though, they also need constant maintenance and upkeep. The higher up the chain you go (pop up to Class A) the more expensive the rig and the more expensive the maintenance.
Very sorry to hear about your experience and I hope you get it taken care of. I don't know what the answer is because this has happened many times before and some (very few) end up with an exchange, others at the manufacturer for rebuild months on end, and others for repairs at a dealer.
Keep us posted.
Good point. And it will likely remain unregulated since it represents a pretty small market in the overall scheme of things.
We can only hope it will remain unregulated, because if it ever does get government oversight, expect prices to go up, as in way up. Far cheaper to get what we get right now, and fix it/upgrade it ourselves than to have to "pay for the results of" regulation by some government agency.
