multiple problems with new Forest River
We purchased our new Forest River Heritage Glen 26 RL last May from Creaticebus sales based out of Chino CA. When we started using it on various trips I noticed several major flaws: BATTERY: It only ...
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Lantley wrote:drsteve wrote:newman fulltimer wrote:
so how is a cheap battery forest river? Have you bothered to check your crappy wfco converter for proper output seeing its as well not forest river.The ac thats not forest river needs taken off auto to stop coming on.The non forest river heater might need properly sealed
Would you be this forgiving if, say, your new truck's outsourced transmission blew up? Of course not--you would expect the manufacturer to take responsibility and fix it, and rightly so. It's Forest River's choice to use these parts, and it should be their responsibility to repair the unit.
Auto's and RV's are 2 different things, with very different assembly procedures, warranty policies and consumer protection laws.
The sooner you separate the 2 the sooner you will have a better understanding of the challenges of RV ownership.
Horse Poopage.
They may be different things but a warranty is a warranty.
The difference is if the transmission go's out in your Ford, you go down to the dealer, they order another, and most likely for something major like that you're back on the road in less than a week, two weeks tops.
With most RV manufacturers if the cooling unit in the fridge lets loose, you take it back to the dealer and drop it off. They get around to looking at it two weeks later. They take pictures of the ruptured cooling unit and send them to the manufacturer. The manufacturer takes a few days or a week to review and approve them. The manufacturer approves the request then the dealer needs to order the new fridge from the manufacturer, thats a different department on both ends so no taking care of it all at once. The manufacturer does not keep them laying around and will not pull stock from production runs, so they order a new fridge from Dometic. It takes a few weeks for the new fridge to arrive at the manufacturer from Dometic. The manufacturer now waits until they have a new unit shipping to the dealer, and cram the new fridge inside to save shipping costs. The new fridge finally arrives at the dealer and now you get put on the schedule to swap it that may be a few weeks or more booked out. Youre new rig was at the dealer for 4 moths for a warranty repair which in actuality it takes what to swap out an absorbtion fridge? 1.5 hours at most?
