dodge guy wrote:
Ralph Cramden wrote:
dodge guy wrote:
It doesn’t matter if they are going by some updated rule! If they are using it to skimp on safety equipment then you know they are really skimping in other places. Actually now that we know they are skimping on safety that really questions the operation of Keystone!
And other manufacturers dont skimp, it's only Keystone skimping? They all skimp on both safety equipment and other things. They install the minimum required fire extinguisher. You would be lucky to put out a birthday candle with one of those things. They install the cheapest smoke and CO detectors that can be found. They install tires that are rated right at the max but only if you count X lbs as hitch weight. They put one screw where you need three, and the one screw is most likely stripped. All of the electrical items from a 12V switch to the radio or TV is the cheapest junk availible. The pleather used for upholstery may make it 5 years, I doubt it though, and the cheap foam will be crushed flat never to return regardless. The plastic faucets will wear out if you use them, actually they'll probably break in half, and everything plastic outside will deteriorate from UV damage in about 3 years.
All of them are skimping.....not only Keystone. When you look at sales numbers broken out by brand, Keystone outsells all the others in TT's and 5th wheels by a longshot, and has done so for years.....skimping evidently must work.
Yes, but when it’s so blatantly obvious and it’s a safety issue that they are tip toeing around that’s a problem. Yes others do to, but it’s non safety systems like tank gauges, materials and poor installation. When it comes to the consumers safety that’s where the line has to be drawn.
Forest River skimped on using skilled labor on the electrical system in our Rockwood. The terminals were left loose at the shore power connection and arced.....melting and ruining the wall mounted twist on connector in the process. Every lug on breakers were overtightend to the point of stripping out the heads and smashing the conductors flat so they snapped right off. I have a long email chain going back and forth with Rockwood and they had a lackadaisical attitute....take it back to the dealer....
Since I did not want to wait weeks for an appointment and months for the claim I repaired it all myself. They did send me a new connector and all new breakers.
That was skimping on safety as I see it.
They all do it.
A very common practice all of them use is to install the bare minimum rated tire they can based on GVWR. The tires weight rating total may not even add up the GVWR and theyll assign some of that weight to hitch weight to skimp around going to the next higher rated tire, which may have cost $40 to do, probably less. Thats not skimping on safety? All of them do it and is the reason for a lot of these blowout threads where its all blamed on Chinabombs.
