Terrible workmanship in our new trailer
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 b...
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Lantley wrote:mikakuja wrote:
Having been through the internals of many RV's I can assure you that these problems you are finding are not specific to a single manufacturer.
Good luck with yours and hopefully these are the worst issues you will find.
Happy Camping.
Exactly what the OP should have suggested is do a very thorough PDI.
What you fail to find will become your problem later.
One should slowly examine the RV and test every ,latch, switch, outlet, catch valve,hinge slide, roof, undercarriage, faucets etc. Test it all.
Finding it later makes it your problem not theirs.
I agree it should not be that way. But the reality is some final assembly is required. This true with all brands, all types of RV's and all price points.
The sooner the buyer understands the pitfalls and shortcomings of the RV industry the better off they will be.
X2. Even companies well known for building quality trailers have quality issues with some of their units. One thing us consumers can do to protect ourselves is to do an exhaustive PDI before purchasing. Doing so will catch most items and if you require that those items be fixed before you sign, you'll get quicker service pre sale than post sale. On our current trailer our PDI took well over 2 hours. Our unit was well made as we were only able to find two very small minor problems.
Doing a good PDI will not find all issues though. A lot of times components needs to be used and the trailer needs to be towed for a while before some issues show up. In our case, we had all of our brakes (Lippert components) fail on the trailer. This issue took several thousands of miles to develop. The cause for the failures would not have been caught during the initial PDI. We just needed time for the failure to show up.
