Travel Trailer quality rankings?

To help you decide on what RV to buy you could go to www.rvknowhow.com and read Joe and Vicki’s suggestions and/or download their e-book `RV Buyers Homework’, which walks you through the process of choosing the best RV for your needs, selecting the right floor plans and features, determining the RV’s cargo-carrying and towing capacities and evaluating its livability. (Nov-Dec Highways, pg. 21)
RVtravel.com and the Better Business Bureau have a DVD that covers the same subject
(http://rvbookstore.com/shop/detail.aspx?p=710&m=2) and Chuck Woodbury has an ebook with similar advice that can be instantly downloaded from www.rvbookstore.com.
The RV Consumer Group, www.rv.org, rates RV's in various ways for a fee.

Some are made better than others plain and simple. But it's 100% up to the owner to do the up keep. I don't care what brand you buy if you don't periodically inspect it and do the necessary maintenance then even the best will have problems. As stated above the warranty means nothing as most will be fine for the 1st year or two. After that you either need to be rich or handy.

I bought my Lance because I'll never need 2 trailers!

WoodGlue

Our family had almost talked ourselves into a Lance 2185. With no dealership close we planned a trip 3.5 hours away and incorporated a stop at the Lance dealer. The trailer is everything we want, but.....we just couldn't justify the price tag. While the quality seemed better than everything else we've looked at, we could almost purchase two "other" TT's for the price of the Lance. The quality difference just didn't seem night and day better to justify buying the Lance.

Well, and see, I would turn the first two around that woodglue said. Floor plan was everything to me. Construction and materials number two.

The rest of I didn't care about at all. I bought from a dealer 600 miles away. Price was the deciding factor. Warranty means zero to me. I can fix anything that could go wrong. These travel trailers are very basic and simple. Anybody with a screwdriver and and a crescent wrench can work on one.
Options ? They all have what I want as far as options: an air conditioner, a microwave and an awning. That's it.

So that's my take on it....each individual needs to figure out what is important and what is not, and then write a check, hitch up and go camping. You'll figure the rest out along the way.

Believe me....these things are not complicated. They are only slightly more complex than a conestoga wagon.

Now then....if you are talking about a motorhome, especially a higher end one....things are going to get far more complex, very quickly.

And yes, I'm serious when I say this to the OP....for sure....do your homework, but don't try to make it more complicated than it really is. All that will do is drive you nuts, and you could waste years just looking.....and not camping.

It took me at least 2 Years of researching all the brands and the construction of those brands before I narrowed it down to a Lance Travel Trailer.

I was looking for, in order;

1) Construction Methods & Materials Used
2) Floor Plan
3) Standard Features
3) Options Available
4) Warranty
5) Dealership Nearby

I figured why would I want to buy a trailer and put any money into something that was doomed to fall apart or give me construction/materials problems off the bat.

WoodGlue