Many Issues with 2019 R-pod 180 - Event Date: 01 Jan 2019 - 14 Mar 2019

Good news. I contacted Forest River about all the issues I've had with my new R-pod. As a good faith gesture, they offered to make two payments on my trailer loan. This goes a long way in taking some of the sting away. 

 Glad to be of some help.

I understand and this has been my sad introduction to the world of RVs. With regards to quality control, Forest River brags about their QC right on their website and points out their QC procedures. Yes, it shouldn't be this way as you said, but I hope that more people like myself don't settle for this and contact FR with their issues. Maybe if more people did, there wouldn't be as many issues. I don't know...just speculating a bit. In my case I wrote detailed letters with pictures to all the FR locations in Oregon and one to the main headquarters in Indiana. We'll see what kind of response I get. At the very least, I felt a little better just by taking the action and expressing my frustration in writing. Thanks for you input.

The trailer you got was the one I was trying to buy from Harrison Marine.  I put a deposit on it but you had first choice over me.  I could not wait for the next shipment so I got a r180 in Sacramento.  I bought my 171 from Harrison and I was happy with them.  Sold it after 2+ years for the same price I paid for it. 

In my experience, paying piecework usually leads to shoddy craftsmanship, injuries, and long term development of disabilities that cut one's work life short.  I suspect that if someone made a study of the correlation between piece work and quality, there would be an inverse relationship.  But it is a way to drive the bottom line for manufacturers, as long as they don't mind paying very high workers' compensation rates and dealing with high turnover.