the bear II wrote:
Keep in mind there are a lot more RV'ers who do not or never had a truck camper so naturally you will read more complaints about other types of RVs.
Also keep in mind the folks who post in this and other RV forums do so for the following reasons: they have a problem, they like to help others, they are interested in RVs and what's going on. For the most part folks who are satisfied with their RV will not post on a forum. So when reading RV forums you are seeing just a very small cross section of RV owners.
There are a whole lot more folks who are perfectly satisfied with the RV than not. I'm guessing it's 80 percent are happy and 20 percent are unhappy and of those 20 percent you might see 5 percent posting on this forum.
I realize that and do treat most complaints as people that are looking for attention, but when one thing comes up time and time again and even the people that like them bring it up then you have to be concerned. Sprinter vans are one of these situations; many people love them but you read all over about high costs of repair, problems getting the repairs correct, being hard to find authorized places to do warranty work, ignition problems and the black death in the engine. With all this it really makes you take a step back and rethink it.