I posted the following on the "High Quality Work" thread yesterday.
Keystone QC (or the lack of it) has been a problem with my previous 2010 Mountaineer. I had the same issues with unfinished work on the structures holding drawers or using undersized screws to mount the slides for the drawers.
The plumbing off the bathroom was a disaster with the trap off of the shower drain mounted 180 degrees upside-down resulting in the drain being forced up against the flooring above, the added stress caused the fittings to come loose ultimately filling the storage compartment with water after taking a shower. Then the Fiberglas floor around the shower drain cracked around the basin set and leaked all over the place - again filling the storage compartment with water. I temporarily fixed that problem using good old duct tape and when we got home I had a fiberglass repair specialist redo the area around the drain. Then I bought and installed a decent basin set (the drain and down pipe - with better rubber gaskets above and below the shower floor) - the original had 1 very thin rubber gasket between the basin set flange and the floor. After figuring out that the shower floor had been flexing whenever I took a shower (yes I weigh 250 but I don't think I'm unique in that fact) and because the drain piping was being held rigidly the crack around the drain occurred. When I saw the space between the shower floor and the bathroom sub-floor I stopped the shower floor from flexing by injecting urethane foam between the shower floor and the sub-floor.
That fix worked very well from that point on. All of my issues occurred within the first 18 months that we owned the rig and of course despite of the flaws in the workmanship and the design the repairs were to my account. Keystone was deaf to my communications.
As I mentioned in the other thread, the Keystone Youtube blurb about quality control is nice and I think that the players mean well in their statements; it's just that they don't ring true - particularly those by the CEO at the start of the video. If he had read the comments in the forum he would know that what he was advocating was just not true in reality.
Potential new purchasers should probably watch the company videos with a a leery eye and take the comments with a grain of salt.
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Chris & Susan Clarke
Calgary, AB, Canada
2018 High Country 305RL
2007.5 Silverado 2500HD Duramax
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