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Road_Phantom
Explorer II
Dec 16, 2014

quality gone down hill.

I bought a Funfinder because I believed the rep it had for quality. The first thing we had trouble with was the dinette table. It separated from its base plate. I noticed immediately that the table top had been held to the wood base solely by staples. No Glue!. I turned the whole thing upside down and laid on a good amount of
Gorilla glue. I couldn't bring the trailer back under warranty because we were campground host in a very remote region of Big Bend National Park for four months.
It gets better. I soon noticed that a small leak coming from beneath the shower was not a little overspill from the door opening as I had originally suspected. I opened up the access panel and could not believe what I was seeing. the drain was never connected. What ever amount of water dripped down into the drain pipe was all that went into the holding tank below. The rest seeped onto the bathroom floor. The problem turned out to be the sub floor. It was not cut short enough to allow the drain to be connected. I managed to cut the floor back enough to connect the drain.
Did Cruiser, a family owned company,
get bought out by yet another corporation thereby lowering its standards for the almighty profit?

36 Replies

  • My THOR product is not much better. All the plastic pieces starting with the plastic tabs holding the license plat on have grown brittle and have broken. Staples and Glue? What about nuts and bolts and good welds? What about wood panels instead of vinyl covered particle board? I could go on.
  • Old-Biscuit wrote:
    Welcome to the world of 'piece work'.......

    8:00 AM
    OK group we have 12 units we have to get out the door today.
    Soon as they are done we can go home

    12:15 PM
    Hehehe.....I made as much today as I did 2 days last week. Sure am glad we went from hourly to piece work. Heck I could knock out 20 units a day like this.


    LOL, so very true. Have a friend that once worked in a mobile home manufacturing plant. Your story is exactly what he told me. He also got bonuses for getting more done than required. I always get a kick out of the term Amish workers. Like they have the time to hand craft some beautiful piece of furniture. They're running to get done just like the rest are.
  • Welcome to the world of 'piece work'.......

    8:00 AM
    OK group we have 12 units we have to get out the door today.
    Soon as they are done we can go home

    12:15 PM
    Hehehe.....I made as much today as I did 2 days last week. Sure am glad we went from hourly to piece work. Heck I could knock out 20 units a day like this.
  • Sorry to hear that. We looked at Fun Finder and thought they were nice units, just did not have a floor plan we liked.

    Ours has had it's share of troubles too and very disheartening and frustrating to deal with.

    Seems it does not matter how much you spend on a unit...they ALL have problems. Would rather they get rid of all the "fluff" and go back to building a brick chit house that will not leak and fall apart.
  • Seen this a lot over the years. As a RV model or line gets a good reputation and / or becomes popular, the manufacturer has trouble keeping up with demand. They add on new workers, extra shifts and quality begins to suffer. One shift ends and the next begins and if the communications between shifts is bad, stuff gets missed.

    The two faucets in our last RV had not been tightened down to the sinks. We had missing and loose trim pieces...overall there were about 30 quality issues. The factory was close by so we took it there to have everything fixed. At the time they were the only manufacturer with multiple slideouts. The product line became real popular really fast....