Manufacturers, You Know Better

ctechbob

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No secret that RV build quality is iffy on a good day. I thought I would start a thread for things you find poking around your rig that were so egregious, you took a picture of them. A 'post of shame' we'll call it.

I'll start.

2022 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf 26DJSE

This is the wire passthrough from the inside of the trailer to the awning. Two circuits, one for the awning, one for the lights. Sealed connection for the LED lights, regular non-sealed crimp caps for the awning.

Jagged hole, no wire protection, and absolutely no protection from water going in the trailer. I shoved a piece of split loom in the hole and will deal with the water issue on another day since it appears that for the time being none has gotten in there. Still not happy with an open hole like this. Apparently they've never heard of a hole saw. I would have been satisfied if they'd just jammed the hole full of silicone or the like, but nay.
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Ctech, they just throw the things together.. from what I understand most of the RV factories pay piecework rates... which doesn't go a long way towards encouraging quality control.
 
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2017 Grand Design Imagine 2150RB, I can't find the photos but if I could I'd show photos of the supply side tubing to the 12V fresh pump making a pinched 90 degree bend where it came out of a hole in the floor. And pics of the back of drawer slides stapled to a 3"x20" piece of siding that was free hanging with only a piece of 1x2 attached vertically in the center of the siding piece, think a T upside-down arrangement. And the inline fuse on the power wire coming from the battery hanging off the trailer frame completely exposed to the roost of the rear truck passenger tire. I could go on.
 
2017 Grand Design Imagine 2150RB, I can't find the photos but if I could I'd show photos of the supply side tubing to the 12V fresh pump making a pinched 90 degree bend where it came out of a hole in the floor. And pics of the back of drawer slides stapled to a 3"x20" piece of siding that was free hanging with only a piece of 1x2 attached vertically in the center of the siding piece, think a T upside-down arrangement. And the inline fuse on the power wire coming from the battery hanging off the trailer frame completely exposed to the roost of the rear truck passenger tire. I could go on.
my 2015 Grand Design was the worst RV I ever owned..
as stated before I lucked out when it got caught up in a forest fire.

the Sidewalls started delaminating when it was a couple years old..
in many places. the rubber roof turned all gummy..
history

up to a point I expect to fix small things on RV's, knowing how they tend to be thrown together
but I had structural problems and lucky for me mother nature fixed it for me.

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This trailer has been about as expected but certainly not the rep GD has for being better than average.
 
This trailer has been about as expected but certainly not the rep GD has for being better than average.
forget what year Winnebago bought them out..
but you would hope if Winnebago was running the company they would improve.
 
New Horizons arm rest fell off on one of our early trips. Whoever mounted the armrest didn't hit the aluminum wall frame with any screws. The wood shop foreman fixed it himself. Rock solid now.

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Seriously Forest River?

The orange was is/was the main feed for the breaker box. Not sure why they felt the need to jam it under the 12v ground block they screwed in with ONE screw.

It is cut because I'm in the process of switching it over to the 8AWG runs to/from the inverter.

And of course there's more construction debris to clean up.

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3 things are necessary to make a complete circuit. You have two of them in close proximity, all you need is all that insulation to wear away and you have the 3rd component necessary to form a complete circuit.
I'm pretty sure one of the prerequisites to be a RV assembly person is to fail a drug test otherwise they can't use you.
 
I would think that would be a fire hazard.

You'd think.

Something else I spotted. These manufacturers cheapen everything to the penny.

But FR used real name brand Romex in my camper. Of all the things... Maybe it is the cheapest, but I would have thought it would have been some UL Listed off brand.
 
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