Trailer construction quality question?

rmnpcolorado wrote:
I find it interesting that you're asking people on an RV forum what they think of two manufacturers - my question back to you is what did YOU think of the two different manufacturers' products? You're the one that looked at both of them, how did YOU think they the two models compared in build quality? If you looked both over thoroughly, it should be fairly obvious the differences, even in used trailers. I myself have a different opinion than what you came back with as I happen to like Jaycos. Having said that, I know there are other units that are built better than Jayco, and my next trailer will probably be a different brand that I like the build quality better on (currently eyeing up the Lance line, even though we have a dealer nowhere near us!).

To me it's about what YOUR opinion is of the manufacturer and trailer you're looking at (because each is built different individually as well). And if you bought used, it gets even more interesting.

Well actually, I never looked physically at Jayco while trying to find a trailer for me. I was talking with a salesman about a 2007 20FT Pioneer he was trying to convince me was worth $4000 over bluebook and how the in the current market bluebook values are not even relative. I then told him about the 2013 16ft mint condition Jayco Jay flight I had found for my parents earlier this month for $8900 and he went off on a tangent about how Jaycos were nothing but tin cans on wheels and how was comparing apples to oranges and how he could go all day about the quality differences between the Pioneer we was trying to sale and the Jayco I bought for several thousand under bluebook. I then told him about a 2011 Skyline Mountain View 196 that a competitor had listed for $9,900 (less then what he wanted for the 2007 Pioneer and he said about the same thing. He then called me a very "Shrewed" RV buyer that was uniformed. I told him that if he insinuated one more time that I was ignorant, I was walking out the door. When I told him I had found this Kodiak for $5,700, he just threw his hands up in the air and gave up trying to sale me that Pioneer for 2007 $10,000. I offered him bluebook plus 10% ($6,500) and he would not take it, so I walked out the door and bought this Kodiak. I think I gave him a headache. LOL!