Need to look at those weight labels
A week or so back I posted a question about differing net carrying capacities amongst different manufactures with basically the same floor plans and lengths. Some were twice as much as others. We we...
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laknox wrote:nremtp143 wrote:shadoow wrote:
there was a thread on here some time back where the guy had a negative NCC. Had a pic of his sticker in the post. I think the outcome involved the RV manufacturer doing something to the trailer to provide more load capacity so it wasn't just a bum sticker.
I may have been that guy. My 5er only had 137 pounds of CCC before it was ever loaded. I went to FR and politely told them what I needed, which was for them to change the 6k axles out to 7k axles. After several conversations, and a "shot across the bow" so to speak, they delivered and have changed numerous axles on my model camper and its sister the Sierra in the last two years.
So, it was only an axle change that upped your CCC? No frame mods? While I find it absolutely incomprehensible that something like this could hit the streets, I'm 100% not surprised. I'd be willing to bet that some engineer there wrote a memo that was ignored or just s***canned by the higher-ups, sorta like the NASA execs who ignored the reports about shuttle booster o-rings and cold weather from =several= previous launches. Still, you only get 1,137 CCC MAX, with that axle swap.
Lyle
Yes. The frame is the same one under several of their other campers that length that all have 7k axles under them. They claimed to not have known that the trailer actually weighed that much DRY! I had to send them pics of my labels, then they built another one just like mine and weighed and then that's when they realized there was a problem. I'm not sure I believe that. I have a very long thread under the Forest River Forums under my name "golfmedik" that drew LOTS of attention. Problem is that they are still denying some owners the upgrade when they weighed virtually the same as mine. Some have obtained counsel I believe. But now, if what I'm seeing on the net is true, FR is under a NHTSA investigation on faulty specs, recalls and such. Funny thing, I could buy the 7k axles off of the net for $28 a piece higher than the 6k that are WAY overweight on these rigs.SO, with all of the purchasing power they have, you know the difference would've been much smaller. Going from a pair of 6k axles to a pair of 7k axles gives you a 2k pound difference.
