Terrible workmanship in our new trailer

NanciL wrote:
We are at the end of our first month of our brand new 2016 Forest River Wildwood and I am here to tell you that the interior workmanship is the worst I have ever experienced.
We bought the trailer based on it being the exact floor plan that we were looking for.
We caught some of the things on the "walk through", but it is the hidden things that popup every other day that have been caused by shoddy workmanship that are one big pain.
The shelves are 1/8th inch paneling so little by little I have been removing them and replacing them.
Today when I was doing the ones in our bedroom wardrobe and adding more, when I went to measure up from the one at the bottom, I noticed that the back rear was sagging quite badly. I pushed down on it and realized there was absolutely no supports on the left side or the back side, so I went into the rear storage compartment and there was a screwed on panel stopping me from getting under it. I took the panel off, and it was the compartment that the electric cable gets stored in and yes there was absolutely no supports where there should have been for the upper shelf.
I finished working on that and when I went to do the shelves on the opposite side the bottom one was the exact same way, except it was a completely sealed compartment, with the electrical breaker panel in it. I had two choices; take the entire panel out from inside the trailer along with all the other electrics or break through the panel from the rear compartment. I did the latter, and it was the exact same way (missing two supports).

I am not writing this for people to tell me to take it back to the dealers, under the warrantee but to warn anyone who is not handy
-Don't buy Forest River Trailers!

If I made a list of all that we repaired, you would be amazed

Jack L

Yep, when I was having all kinds of quality problems on my Rockwood pop up back in 2005, I was looking at the wildwood travel trailers on the lot and was astonished by the lack of quality as they were falling apart on the showroom floor. The other forest river brands were a tad better, but not by much.

I bought my Rockwood pop up because it was thousands cheaper than Viking/coachment (previous to Forest River buying them), Starcraft, Jayco, and Fleetwood/Coleman pop ups. I learned why very quickly as it was my first RV purchase. I now know what to look for.

Glad you're handy and that you can finish building it.