Tequila wrote:
deltabravo wrote:
Northwood Manufacturing (Arctic Fox, Snow River, Desert Fox, Nash) are pretty decent from what I've seen.
My parents started with a AF 26X, then downsized to a 25J.
I started with a Desert Fox 21SW toy hauler, then downsized to a 811 truck camper.
None of the above have had any issues.
Had plenty of issues with mine. The one big advantage they have is strong frames, but I have had more than a few issues with plumbing and leaks. Rihg tnow my slide storage compartment is soaked so I have to figure out how water is getting in there.
You're one of the very few that have had plenty of issues. I've been reading on the Northwood forum for 3+ years and very few have lots of issues. Everyone seems to have a few. We had a few with ours, but none of them were hard to fix. Actually we had only two NW induced issues. One was a very small water leak from a wrong fitting that NW employee installed. 2nd was NW's idea of cramming 10lbs of duct work in a 2lb hole. It popped every time you stepped into the bedroom. A quick trip to Home Depot and $20.00 worth of duct work and I fixed it in a couple hrs.
I always look at who's behind the problems. Is it a sub MFG like Lippert. Dexter, Norcold, SurFlo, Jensen, etc. We sometimes criticize the wrong people. MFG don't make all the components, they assemble them. It's during assembly that you can blame the MFG. Hard to blame the MFG for a fridge circuit board that goes out. You can blame the MFG for the pinched gas line to the fridge though.