Cabover leaks - Would This Work
The current horror story thread detailing Coachman Leprechaun cabover leaks is unfortunately representative of very common class C events. Poor workmanship, combined with design incompetence are alm...
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I frown upon motor home manufactures who still build their class-C's with seam work in the cab-over. Whatever their reasoning, I can't accept it. This is NOT an emerging market with all new ideas in road trip vacationing. There is a very long history with motor homes made poorly, resulting in leaks for new, used, and well used rigs. Any motor home manufacture still building rigs like this are inadvertently preying on the inexperienced.
I am not an advocate for government regulation, but there are a few areas in class-C motor homes where maybe some rules should be defined. This because the industry isn't doing an adequate job on it's own. Seamless fiberglass cab-overs (& roofs) and chassis stabilization/handling won't make or break but a few shady manufactures and a few prospective buyers. In short time there would be much safer and healthy mold free rigs for all.
You know how it goes....Eventually the tighter standard would become "The Norm" as does Electronic Stability Control and an array of airbags have today on cars and SUVs. If not, we'd still be getting 12 mpg on the highway in a 4-door sedan death trap without seat belts. It's an evolutionary process that I feel would be a good idea to get started in the previously mentioned areas with motor homes.
I am not an advocate for government regulation, but there are a few areas in class-C motor homes where maybe some rules should be defined. This because the industry isn't doing an adequate job on it's own. Seamless fiberglass cab-overs (& roofs) and chassis stabilization/handling won't make or break but a few shady manufactures and a few prospective buyers. In short time there would be much safer and healthy mold free rigs for all.
You know how it goes....Eventually the tighter standard would become "The Norm" as does Electronic Stability Control and an array of airbags have today on cars and SUVs. If not, we'd still be getting 12 mpg on the highway in a 4-door sedan death trap without seat belts. It's an evolutionary process that I feel would be a good idea to get started in the previously mentioned areas with motor homes.
