trailor qaulity

ford truck guy wrote:
As stated already... ALMOST every RV manufacturer and several lines (price points)... This way they have a shot at every category of buyer... entry level , midrange , upgraded , luxury ... ect...Does not mean that they are built any worse then the others,, just that they went left while the rest went right while on the assembly line. May have a Hisense TV standard instead of a Samsung.. and so on

X 2 I have had no problem with entry level trailers as long as I maintained them. If you don't maintain them you will have problems.

As stated already... ALMOST every RV manufacturer and several lines (price points)... This way they have a shot at every category of buyer... entry level , midrange , upgraded , luxury ... ect...Does not mean that they are built any worse then the others,, just that they went left while the rest went right while on the assembly line. May have a Hisense TV standard instead of a Samsung.. and so on

Springdale is an entry level trailer. No better or worse or any others in the same price categories. In reality they're all junk and you wonder how they stay together going down the road, but somehow they do. All the brands use pretty much the same construction methods, components and appliances. The people that built Springdales may have been building Jayco last month. They go where the work is. Buy the floorplan you like it won't matter much what brand it is..

B.O.

Springdale's are on the low end of Keystones lineup. Doesn't mean they're built cheaply, just means the components may not be a nice as their mid and upper level units.

TTs are built differently depending on the brand....some with aluminum studs and the smooth exterior, others with wooden studs and usually have the corrugated style siding. If you can check online, many manufacturers show a rough idea in their brochure of how their trailer is constructed.

Absolutely agree that you can, by luck of the draw, end up with a lemon from a company that normally turns out a great product. Frequent, routine maintenance is crucial no matter what you decide on.

Unlike the auto industry, RV's don't share the same quality control. You can get a lemon among other trailers on the same line that will have
few issues. I owned a Keystone Cougar 5h wh, '09, that had a few minor problems; sewer handle unglued itself, front jack became unbolted, the blow up mattress in the coach was garbage, but that was it. Structurally, they all share the same basic technology subject to human error.

Absolutely agree with handye9. That is why I always recommend one that you really like the style, look and layout of.

Good Luck

Depends on who you are talking to. You'll hear things from junk to best there ever was. They are all built pretty much the same. They all have their issues here and there.

You can't even listen to salespeople regarding quality. While trailer shopping, a few years back, I was at a Starcraft dealer. I mentioned, I was comparing their unit with a Flagstaff, at another dealer. The salesman said "don't buy that Flagstaff, they're junk". Three years later, I was shopping again. I went back to the dealership where I had purchased the Starcraft. I talked to the same salesman (he didn't remember me) who was now selling Flagstaff trailers. He said Flagstaff is the best trailer out there.

The key is how they are maintained. Buy a high end unit, ignore the routine maintenance, and in a short period of time, you have an expensive piece of junk. Buy an entry level unit, maintaind it well, and in the same period of time, you have a nice entry level unit.

Some roads are rougher than others. When you drag these things down the road at 65 mph, things are going to come apart, doesn't matter who put it together.