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New RVs being built tight spaces get tighter
The RV manufacturers report 423,628 new units for year 2020. Projected new deliveries for 2021 is 515,000 new units.
The association of RV parks and campgrounds stated there are 1,225,000 sites with hook ups.
For coming year they anticipate 227,300 additional hook ups.
If hitting road make sure you got a space setup.
When covid goes away how many of these units will be on the marketplace?
Sure many will learn RVing not as great as the salesman made it seem.
Local RV sales lot has a big sign on the fence saying safest way to travel.
Many are going to learn the poor quality of these boxes on wheels and frustration of getting repairs. The face book RV Horrors has many undaunting example’s of the poor quality and inferior materials in todays offering.
A fellow PC member related to me he was doing pre delivery for a rv dealer and he was surprised at the squawks he came across. One unit the wire for the hot water heater was laying on the floor in the hot water heater compartment.
2020 Covid year has many future ramifications we must learn to navigate.
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With manufacturers cranking them out, I suspect quality control will be missing.
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I help a buddy out sometimes in trade for letting me use his lot for working on travelers Aqua Hot’s , But anyways he is a Forest River dealer and he been selling a lot of these tow behind trailers and 5th wheeler’s,Oh my gosh we are talking cheese balls, the wood paneling inside it must be paper thin, Lot’s of staple’s through wires ,pex washers missing on fittings and on and on. And I replaced a complete power awing because the owner moved trailer with awning out and ripped it off, kind of like the movie RV with Robin Williams, Pretty scary. Their pumping these things out with no final checking of any kind. PDI’s Nothing like a bus.
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I’m on the RV Horror Story Facebook page.
The stories are beyond “you just can’t make this sh** up!”
Lippert frames on the towables that are obviously under-engineered, critical welds without penetration, limited gusseting at suspension mounting points, empty weights close to max gross (so the tires, wheels, brakes, axles, springs, etc. are overloaded as soon as its filled with water, propane, and linens. Tires are often referred to as China bombs!
And the new ones get deep into five figures and larger fifth wheels quickly go to $150,000 … plus a truck to pull them.
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When the economy took a serious hit in 2008 most Prevost converters either shut down all production, or only did a handful of conversions.
As the economy rebounded Prevost conversion production has ramped back up, but at seriously reduced levels compared to prior to 2008. Of the converters I have spoken to regarding production figures the message is simply that if they attempt to ramp back up to pre-2008 production levels the quality is going to suffer because a lot of the qualified production people are gone and not returning. Training new employees is difficult and expensive so while bigger sales numbers are a nice goal, the converters can’t and won’t increase volume unless their production workers have the skills and quality will not suffer.
If the proposed increase in volume stated above ends up being the actual production output it is a guarantee a lot of junk is going to hit the streets, and to add to the problem the industry has been unable to service the defects at the current production levels and adding such a high percentage of new units means owners of those RVs are not only getting junk, they are not going to be able to get that junk repaired.
But those new units will have all the fancy features and a “warranty”.
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