TT engineers should live in one for a month

bodyshop bob wrote:
After reading about the new Jayco 338rets here and seeing pictures on the Jayco website the DW and I were anxious for some dealers locally to get some in so we could see for ourselves. We have the 308rets and we are looking for a similar design but with a larger bedroom. The 338 looked to be perfect. Finally, we were able to inspect one first-hand. Once again, the "engineers" have managed to put the satellite/cable TV jack on the satellite/cable TV jack on the right side up by the door so you have a cable running thru your site; the outside shower is cleverly placed directly under the city water hookup (about exactly where most people have the inline filter); the valve for one grey water tank is tucked directly under the bedroom slide and the other two are easily accessible; the 2 door pantry is narrow but deep insuring that you have to remove everything to get the one item in the back (slide out shelves would fix this)and interior shelves are NBA high. These issues plus 3 visible build flaws plus the unit is $13k more expensive than the 308 we bought 2 years ago equals a "no sale".

Maybe you should have looked a little closer. ;)
The cable jack on the front right is an outlet to allow for a TV hookup outside under the awning. On our 338RETS the TV/Sat hookup is on the left rear corner.
We just rotate the inline water filter a little to one side to get the outside shower opened up and in service. Not a deal breaker for us.
All three of our dump valves are easily accessable, none of them are under the slide.
Yes the pantry is very deep, armpit deep. We keep an LED flashlight in there to see to the back and we haven't found that we need to remove everything to get anything out from the back, the shelves leave enough room to lift item over the rst of the supplies. I prefer NOT having slideout shelves in a TT, they kill space and need very good locks to keep from sliding while traveling.
My lovely Bride is 5' 5" and doesn't have any problems getting to the things in the back of the upper pantry, not exactly NBA territory.

And for the 90 degree TV viewing folks the TV does swing out to both sides to allow for a more direct viewing angle. Even with it sitting flat to the rear wall the picture is perfectly clear from both sofas and the dinette, not like the earlier generation LED sets that had to be viewed from head-on. My buddy and I watched the Indy 500 from opposing sofas with zero complaints.

So far we are loving our 338RETS, we did have a couple of minor trim issues but the dealer took care of them in a 2 day visit to the service dept.