mike-s wrote:
If they're all that way from day 1, just invite any lookers to visit a dealer and check out a new one, then come back for a good deal.
Doesn't really work that way. The assemble is sandwich of beadboard foam and thin, really thin plywood, with an occasional square, hollow aluminum tube as a "floor joist". My old Trail-Lite had these at least 30" apart. Over time, under the load of foot traffic, the the foam starts to deflect between supports and lose rigidity. So, a brand new rig will feel fine. It gets so bad that mine had visible ridges on the floor where the tubing was. We have friends with a matching unit that they have kept for the last 17 years. It is literally well past the end of it's usable life and weights a lot more now, since the floor had to be covered with thick plywood to prevent further damage to the joke of a floor the factory installed.
