In the market for new trailer
Currently own a 2008 Starcraft 2700BH. It has served me well however, it is beginning to show its age. I have narrowed my selections down to the following manufacturers. Artic Fox ( North Fork 32A ) K...
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I have the 32A and would like to point out a couple if details.
It is MUCH heavier than they claim. Full of water and less than 300# worth of stuff inside, it tops the scales at 9300# plus the tounge weight of > #1200+. Interestingly, the water tank sits centered over the front axle and adds no weight at all to the hitch when full.
Build quality is dismal - I mean it's on-par with the cheapest stuff on the market. There were way, way too many defects to go into here but some of them were stripped screws in all the cabinets (90%), things wired backwards, s/o roof that tore (my dime), leaking plumbing, brakes assembled backwards (again, on my dime), fridge installed contrary to its instructions that didn't work worth a squat, countless blemishes in gelcoat of the fr. and rear caps and a roof that immediatley had to be replaced (more on that below).
Oh and I spent days repairing the cabinet doors and drawers that didn't work right and were hung crooked.
If you get the 50A option, either have them install the AC at the factory and NOT at the dealership or watch for the floowoing very closely because it's a mistake they continue to make.
We ordered our unit with the 50A option. Doing so eliminates both skylights in the bedroom. - this is important!
When our long awaited new trailer showed up, it had both 50A and the bedroom skylights. Score!
The next morning I was looking down at the top of out new TT from the house and came to a horrific realization; there was no way a second AC would fit because the skylights were in the way. That makes the $1000 50A option useless and of course, no way to have second AC.
I called the factory and the Warranty jerk argued that I had paid for 50A but not second AC - which is contrary to the sales literature and a total lie. There's no other reason to have 50A on this trailer and besides, IT WAS WIRED for the second AC.
It took my dealer (who was great) setting them straight to make them "fix it".
The worst was yet to come. That same warranty puke told me lie after lie about how this would be handled. He simply told me what ever he thought I wanted to hear.
In short, the roof isn't strong enough for the second AC without extra supports being installed.
Our new trailer went back to the factory where the roof was ripped off by simply slicing it at the ends where the front and rear caps meet the membrane. So now I have a second transition strip and a ton of goop keeping it from leaking. The whole roof replacement is sloppy beyond words. That's probably because they replaced it in ONE DAY!!
Thanks to my wonderful dealer, NW did install that second AC for free but it shook so bad after I got it that it had to be repaired (probably why they gave it to me).
In short, I will never buy another Northwood product. Not because of the mistakes but because of the terrible way those mistakes were handled by NW.
Sorry for the rant but folks need to know that NW is just living on its past good name.
It is MUCH heavier than they claim. Full of water and less than 300# worth of stuff inside, it tops the scales at 9300# plus the tounge weight of > #1200+. Interestingly, the water tank sits centered over the front axle and adds no weight at all to the hitch when full.
Build quality is dismal - I mean it's on-par with the cheapest stuff on the market. There were way, way too many defects to go into here but some of them were stripped screws in all the cabinets (90%), things wired backwards, s/o roof that tore (my dime), leaking plumbing, brakes assembled backwards (again, on my dime), fridge installed contrary to its instructions that didn't work worth a squat, countless blemishes in gelcoat of the fr. and rear caps and a roof that immediatley had to be replaced (more on that below).
Oh and I spent days repairing the cabinet doors and drawers that didn't work right and were hung crooked.
If you get the 50A option, either have them install the AC at the factory and NOT at the dealership or watch for the floowoing very closely because it's a mistake they continue to make.
We ordered our unit with the 50A option. Doing so eliminates both skylights in the bedroom. - this is important!
When our long awaited new trailer showed up, it had both 50A and the bedroom skylights. Score!
The next morning I was looking down at the top of out new TT from the house and came to a horrific realization; there was no way a second AC would fit because the skylights were in the way. That makes the $1000 50A option useless and of course, no way to have second AC.
I called the factory and the Warranty jerk argued that I had paid for 50A but not second AC - which is contrary to the sales literature and a total lie. There's no other reason to have 50A on this trailer and besides, IT WAS WIRED for the second AC.
It took my dealer (who was great) setting them straight to make them "fix it".
The worst was yet to come. That same warranty puke told me lie after lie about how this would be handled. He simply told me what ever he thought I wanted to hear.
In short, the roof isn't strong enough for the second AC without extra supports being installed.
Our new trailer went back to the factory where the roof was ripped off by simply slicing it at the ends where the front and rear caps meet the membrane. So now I have a second transition strip and a ton of goop keeping it from leaking. The whole roof replacement is sloppy beyond words. That's probably because they replaced it in ONE DAY!!
Thanks to my wonderful dealer, NW did install that second AC for free but it shook so bad after I got it that it had to be repaired (probably why they gave it to me).
In short, I will never buy another Northwood product. Not because of the mistakes but because of the terrible way those mistakes were handled by NW.
Sorry for the rant but folks need to know that NW is just living on its past good name.
