RV Quality….. Nothing New Here…

Everyone is apparently having trouble getting consistent supply. The place I bought my RV told me he is seeing the same model units come in with different brands of everything from sinks and faucets to refrig and AC. If he gets 3 coaches or Toy haulers in they likely will have all different brand components. I am sure that alone may cause issues in the future (untested)

 
NIKAL said:
I need to replace the carb on my Onan Gen, before the season starts and they’re out of stock. 
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Have you checked for a knockoff on Amazon?
 

I ended up having to go that route. It works and I actually bought one or two spares to carry in the belly box just in case they don't last.

Sucks - unit is 10 years old and had the OEM carb on the 5500 generator.

We would have paid the extra cost figuring it was worth it (hopefully) but couldn't get one.

 
luvdunin said:
Have you checked for a knockoff on Amazon?
 

I ended up having to go that route. It works and I actually bought one or two spares to carry in the belly box just in case they don't last.

Sucks - unit is 10 years old and had the OEM carb on the 5500 generator.

We would have paid the extra cost figuring it was worth it (hopefully) but couldn't get one.
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OEM carb is 6 weeks and $400, Amazon knockoff is $60 and here by the weekend

 
raspadoo said:
Its not just RV's my 2020 super duty has missing screws on the trim, front and rear windows need to come out and the list goes on... 
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It's everything on back order, everything has poor QC.  

I wouldn't want to be buying anything new or first year right now.

 
Remember when everyone was up in arms about the quality of WW after they went out business?  Now with $4,000 in frame upgrades they are sought after..............weird.  RV quality is always a bit sketchy.  

And what everyone is saying is true, they can't get Fridges to vents to build the trailers, most of this is due to demand, but the free money is disappearing, I would guess in 4-5 months you will see the manufacturers catch up.  Quality might be another story

 
Cookie said:
Remember when everyone was up in arms about the quality of WW after they went out business?  Now with $4,000 in frame upgrades they are sought after..............weird.  RV quality is always a bit sketchy.  

And what everyone is saying is true, they can't get Fridges to vents to build the trailers, most of this is due to demand, but the free money is disappearing, I would guess in 4-5 months you will see the manufacturers catch up.  Quality might be another story
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Its the reason I like to buy 2nd or 3rd year single owner well maintained (anal retentive)  RV's  -= they work out all the kinks before you get it - they get to do the 12 visits  to the dealer in Year one and then once its perfect they sell it with low miles

Maybe of the WW second owners don't even know thew walls sagged =or the front caps pulled off - all they was fixed and they get a get RV

 
I have done the China and onan carb,  both good and suck at the same time

The Onan Carb works good just can not sit,  the China Carb just need some tweaking  Dont throw away the Onan Carb, it took the solenoid off the bottom and used it on the china carb and all the Choke parts,   now i have the best of both worlds,    

 
luvdunin said:
Have you checked for a knockoff on Amazon?
 

I ended up having to go that route. It works and I actually bought one or two spares to carry in the belly box just in case they don't last.

Sucks - unit is 10 years old and had the OEM carb on the 5500 generator.

We would have paid the extra cost figuring it was worth it (hopefully) but couldn't get one.
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No I have not. I have been told there are good & bad knock off carbs, not sure how to know the difference? 
 

Any suggestions? 

 
My '21 Thor Magnitude had some quality issues, but nothing more than I'd expect from Thor in general.  It was a pretty early '21 tough before things went full insane.  We replaced that with '19 Mountain Aire, which was produced before all this madness (and before Winnie bought Newmar later in '19).  Quality overall on that is obviously on another level, plus the PO took care of all the "first year" bugs that ALL RVs have.  

Anyway, I'm not shocked that quality has dropped significantly as manufacturers are just hammering units out to try to meet demand and get while the gettin' is good...

-TJ

 
Sumsand said:
Still luvin’ my Little Attitude 
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Still luvin’ our Little Attitude…. 2021 with a couple of very minor repairs that were needed. But When you have friends like “”Lord of the dunes”” camping with you the repairs are completed in no time at all.

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I had less problems with my used 2007 fleetwood discovery than my friend did with his 2013 new fleetwood storm (pre crash vs. post crash)

next rig will hopefully be a Newmar

 
EmpirE231 said:
I had less problems with my used 2007 fleetwood discovery than my friend did with his 2013 new fleetwood storm (pre crash vs. post crash)

next rig will hopefully be a Newmar
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I've had 2 Newmars ('17 Dutch Star 4018 and current '19 Mountain Aire 4018) and the materials, quality, etc. are much better than the competing coaches (IMHO).  There are a lot of Newells and Prevosts at the RV park we own a spot in and obviously they're on another level, but my mid-level Newmars are closer to them than all the typical Fleetwood/Thor/etc. stuff are to the Newmars.  Don't get me wrong, we've had our problems with them (the Dutch Star we got new, so we had our share of "new coach" problems) but overall I really love the Newmars.  Also, without going Newell, you just can't get Comfort Drive in anything else, and it's worth it IMHO.  Feel free to hit me up when you end up Newmar shopping... 

-TJ

 
tjZ06 said:
I've had 2 Newmars ('17 Dutch Star 4018 and current '19 Mountain Aire 4018) and the materials, quality, etc. are much better than the competing coaches (IMHO).  There are a lot of Newells and Prevosts at the RV park we own a spot in and obviously they're on another level, but my mid-level Newmars are closer to them than all the typical Fleetwood/Thor/etc. stuff are to the Newmars.  Don't get me wrong, we've had our problems with them (the Dutch Star we got new, so we had our share of "new coach" problems) but overall I really love the Newmars.  Also, without going Newell, you just can't get Comfort Drive in anything else, and it's worth it IMHO.  Feel free to hit me up when you end up Newmar shopping... 

-TJ
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Yeah I remember when you were selling your DS.... I badly wanted one of those...

I'm shopping now, just can't find anything that checks all the boxes now.  What did you sell that 17 for? they are probably going for the same price today......crazy market. 

 
EmpirE231 said:
Yeah I remember when you were selling your DS.... I badly wanted one of those...

I'm shopping now, just can't find anything that checks all the boxes now.  What did you sell that 17 for? they are probably going for the same price today......crazy market. 
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I'll PM you...

-TJ

 
NIKAL said:
No I have not. I have been told there are good & bad knock off carbs, not sure how to know the difference? 
 

Any suggestions? 
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For me, I just go through and find some with LOTS of reviews - both good and bad - and then start reading both.

Some will have 12 reviews - 11 glowing and 1 that the person listing hasn't scrubbed yet...lol

I stay away from those  🙂

Is it the 5500?

This is the genny I have:

https://apelectric.com/cummins-onan-5-5hgjab-7103-qg-5500w-evap-gasoline-rv-generator/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIybmf4u388gIVyB6tBh0IYg_EEAQYAiABEgKW3PD_BwE

If yours is the same, I'll look up which I purchased.

 
tjZ06 said:
Anyway, I'm not shocked that quality has dropped significantly as manufacturers are just stapling units out to try to meet demand and get while the gettin' is good...
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Fixed it for ya  😉

 
luvdunin said:
For me, I just go through and find some with LOTS of reviews - both good and bad - and then start reading both.

Some will have 12 reviews - 11 glowing and 1 that the person listing hasn't scrubbed yet...lol

I stay away from those  🙂

Is it the 5500?

This is the genny I have:

https://apelectric.com/cummins-onan-5-5hgjab-7103-qg-5500w-evap-gasoline-rv-generator/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIybmf4u388gIVyB6tBh0IYg_EEAQYAiABEgKW3PD_BwE

If yours is the same, I'll look up which I purchased.
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Yes Onan 5500. 

 
Fireballsocal said:
We saw this in the early 2000's as demand from HELOC ballers drove sales of recreational vehicles of all types through the roof. Keep that in mind as you look for a used RV in the next several years. These are the years you want to stay away from. Standard stick built RVs have always been of subpar quality with some outliers like Lazy Days, Okanogan, bigfoot. Mostly the small builders that have been building the same designs for many years that haven't sold out to the big conglomerates.  If an RV comes from Indiana, I would be very careful. 
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Only about 80% come from Indiana. lol

 
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