[Dave W]

When you have two major manufacturers, Thor and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway's Forest River building 80 plus percent of ALL RVs along with only one and sometimes two manufacturers assembling most of the accessory items (HW heaters, a/c, furnaces, etc) in a land in the Far East, you have little competition to make real quality parts. Things tend to break. There is a price to pay for these foreign made items ant it's quality since they have been cost reduced so these RVs can be sold at the highest margin for the sake of the bottom line, first at the builder and second, at the dealership. There is no incentive to build these RVs better as long as we, the buyers, are still willing to sit down with his favorite loan shark and sign the bottom line of a loan agreement, occasionally for 20 years for a Class A or 10 yeras for a towable.



Stop buying these mediocre quality RVs, demanding better product and they will eventually get better (in my dreams, maybe). Unfortunately I and many others couldn't afford one them along with that now $75-100K tow vehicle