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Well here is a prospective from a one who has owned two Montana's. A 06 3400 and now a 2013 Big Sky. We used the 06 3400 hard and put over 60K miles on it travelling all over the country. We had problems a few big ones and many small ones.Frame flex, 5 bad holding tanks. Those peeling and shrinking decals.Cabinet drawers that fell off. Suspension that fell apart but all in all it served us well.
This 2013 3402 Big sky is a much better unit. Better insulation, better fitting slides. They both however share one thing. The assembly line workmanship has not improved much if at all.We still find loose screws and bolts, improperly installed doors, hinges loose little things that indicate poor supervision, training and quality control on the assembly line. IMO what they have is a high quality product built by workman who are not properly qualified to build it. It is a condition that applies with all manufacturers regardless of brand or cost.
Many of us do not treat these things well... 65 % of all rigs weighed are over weight and that is a documented stat. Most of us run over the tire ratings and over the speed limit.Many of us run on OEM tires that we know are subject to failure. Those of us that are high end users have more problems than low end users and the manufacturers build these thing for the majority user and that is not the high end user. The manufactiurers IMO will not change and nor will the average user.
I do hold Montana's feet to the fire and have them correct every problem big and small and they do without issue.
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