Coachmen Freedom Express 246RKS

hvac wrote:
My advice is to find a rig with a metal floor,roof and of course sidewall construction. They all leak so this keeps bad things to a minimum. I can't believe they still use wood framing!!

Wood "framing" is probably an incorrect description as many if not almost all trailers built with a metal cage still use wood in several locations as the outer front & rear skins, inner skin, roof structure, etc, all have to be secured to something, that "something" being wood. In those rear wall pics I posted earlier all those wood studs aren't there so much to serve as wall support but to provide contact points to which the outside rear wall panel and inside wall panel can be affixed. Fiberglass side walls are a different matter as they're constructed as a self contained composite wall which is later installed on the trailer as one piece. Nonetheless, wood is still often used inside those walls in specific locations in order to provide something for screws to bite into when installing interior cabinets, etc. Could Coachmen choose to change the rear wall so it too is also a composite assembly with an inner sheet of Azdel, as are the side walls? ... sure, but to date I've not yet seen the inside of a 2017 Freedom to know that this has been done, nor has the tech I know. One thing is certain though - Azdel doesn't bend and is unsuitable for use on a trailer's front wall unless the manufacturer can figure out a way to preform the panels, at an acceptable cost. To date that doesn't seem to be the case so AFAIK those Freedom front walls are still composite sheets of fiberglass and luan wood which are stapled & glued to wood backers. Rare would be the case when any trailer contained no wood at all.