Shocked at lack of quality
Well, went to look at the Aerolite 315BHSS and 319BHSS this weekend and I was shocked at what I would call lack of quality. Maybe I am looking at the wrong level of TT or have too high of expectatio...
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In the lower price point ($15-30,000) I find that Jayco's feel the best. Go to an RV show and walk around and look at these trailers. Walk in them, open cabinets, open doors, look at floorplans, try the lights, bounce on the steps. I found the Jayco JayFlight to be consistently better than anything else in that price point.
I saw trailers that had huge cabinets next to slide outs. You couldn't use the cabinet when the slide was closed, and when it was open you could barely open the cabinet because it hit the trim hiding the slide seal. There is no way that cabinet is useable.
The trailer steps flexed under my 250 lbs, but also my wife's 130 lbs. That feels cheap to me. The JayFlight didn't have flex.
The lights were cheap and starting to burn through lenses by the end of the weekend show in most trailers. JayFlight uses LED lighting inside.
The frames on a lot of these units had the a-frame mounted underneath the main trailer frame. That is a LOT of weight focused on a couple of small welds. The JayFlight has an integrated a-frame.
A lot of floorplans make it obvious that they were trying to cram features into square footage. You can't see the tv from the couch because it is directly next to you. You have to really struggle to walk around the "walk around bed" because they only give you 8" of space between bed and wall (hard to do with size 12 feet...). You don't have any place to hand a toilet paper holder in the bathroom because the walls are so small because the bathroom is cramped. You have no way to dry off in the bathroom because you only have 9 square feet of space outside of the shower.
Dollar for dollar its hard to beat the JayFlights.
I saw trailers that had huge cabinets next to slide outs. You couldn't use the cabinet when the slide was closed, and when it was open you could barely open the cabinet because it hit the trim hiding the slide seal. There is no way that cabinet is useable.
The trailer steps flexed under my 250 lbs, but also my wife's 130 lbs. That feels cheap to me. The JayFlight didn't have flex.
The lights were cheap and starting to burn through lenses by the end of the weekend show in most trailers. JayFlight uses LED lighting inside.
The frames on a lot of these units had the a-frame mounted underneath the main trailer frame. That is a LOT of weight focused on a couple of small welds. The JayFlight has an integrated a-frame.
A lot of floorplans make it obvious that they were trying to cram features into square footage. You can't see the tv from the couch because it is directly next to you. You have to really struggle to walk around the "walk around bed" because they only give you 8" of space between bed and wall (hard to do with size 12 feet...). You don't have any place to hand a toilet paper holder in the bathroom because the walls are so small because the bathroom is cramped. You have no way to dry off in the bathroom because you only have 9 square feet of space outside of the shower.
Dollar for dollar its hard to beat the JayFlights.
