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texman
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jul 2014 Location: TeXas Online Status: Offline Posts: 446 |
Topic: Your thoughts? Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 9:21am |
My 2 cents and top 10:
1. sustained pressure checks to insure no leaks 2. Quality mattresses (they all get replaced or just don’t include so buyers can get what they want or dealer can provide low med and best choices)$100-$300 3. Pay a guy for 15 minutes extra to vacuum as they are assembled. Ill pay for that for sure.$15 4. Better sewer suspension for sure. $15 5. Quality tires. Adds maybe $100 to purchase price 6. Engineer the valances much better. $20 7. No more 182gs? My favorite! 8. Bath floor support. Spend $50 please 9. Electronic cooktop ignition. $15 10. Factory installed inverter, say 300 watt. $100 So I have added around $500 in cost and say labor of $500. $1000 add and 20% g/m adds $1200 to the price but a much better product and much happier campers.
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Woodmiester
Senior Member Joined: 03 Aug 2018 Location: Greenwood IN Online Status: Offline Posts: 142 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 9:37am |
Exactly!! Well said!!
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Swampfox
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David and Danette
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1214 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:52am |
Sorry if I am getting off the subject but when I was younger I bought a Hunter 25 foot sailboat kit. It was a fiberglass haul that included the majority of the parts that you installed yourself. Perhaps a r-pod body and one would complete the interior like a r-pod kit. That way everything could be completed to ones standards and have fun at the same time.
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2018 Vista Cruiser 19BFD (2018-
2012 Vibe 6503 (2014-2019) 2009 r-pod 171 (2009-2014) Middle Tn 2014 Ram 1500 Quad cab |
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David and Danette
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1214 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 12:01pm |
Skilled labor seems to be the main issue and the speed that camping trailers are built. If one could do the labor them selves at their time to make sure things are constructed properly and one could have more freedom to make changes to the floor plan. Maybe in doing this a factory could do a extra good job in building the walls and putting that part together on a trailer frame. Does anyone know if a company has tried this?
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2018 Vista Cruiser 19BFD (2018-
2012 Vibe 6503 (2014-2019) 2009 r-pod 171 (2009-2014) Middle Tn 2014 Ram 1500 Quad cab |
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Subzilla
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jan 2017 Location: Concord, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 302 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 12:06pm |
Add training for the caulkers.....mine is quite messy in places. And don't forget a better spoiler (that doesn't have the potential for leaking).
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Mark
Concord, NC 2017 RP 179 "Podzilla" 2011 Silverado 1500 4X4 |
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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 12:06pm |
I tried that, FR will not just sell a shell to you.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
2011 RP172, 2016 Tundra 5.7 Litre, Ltd. |
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 12:18pm |
+1 At one time they had the last Aviator shell sitting up there.. and at another time a whole Aviator that was back for issues.. tried to get either one to "make my own"...
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DavMar
Senior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2017 Location: Lexington, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 592 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 8:02pm |
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Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the
wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
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DavMar
Senior Member Joined: 04 Aug 2017 Location: Lexington, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 592 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 8:05pm |
Opps! on my previous post! +1 texman on allot of your list. The one thing above all I would like FR to do is QUALITY
CONTROL! There is NO excuse at the R-Pod price point that such shoddy things
like molding that is to short, lack of or slipshod caulking, should ever leave
the factory and it shouldn’t cost the consumer one more dime! I’ll also agree with
texman on they need to shore up the bath shower floors which would be a very minimal
or no additional expense. I’d gladly pay
a few extra dollars for FR to trash the WFCO converter and install a quality converter
such as one by Progressive Dynamics. That improvement could be a selling point
for FR on the R-Pod. If they are going to keep the under the kitchen counter
sink then I’d pay extra for a quality counter and sink. I’d also pay a few
dollars more for some decent water fixtures in the bathroom and kitchen sink. One of the reasons I bought a R-Pod was after looking at comparable campers like the Jayco Hummingbird it looked to me that FR used better material and construction but now I’m beginning to wonder if this is true? It would be interesting to me to talk to other owners of similar campers how they would stack up in quality and repair issues to the R-Pod. I like my R-Pod, like it allot, despite its many faults I’ve had to deal with but I’m not married to it. So, I do wonder how it’s going to perform in the long term? I do know either FR “up’s it game” in material and quality control or they will be loosing market share to competitors marketing similar campers. |
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Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the
wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6283 |
Posted: 07 Nov 2018 at 8:47pm |
Forest River has already made a large increase in quality by switching to Azdell for the walls instead of Lauan plywood. It does not absorb water so there should no longer be issues with the sidewalls delaminating. Unfortunately, that isn't retroactive.
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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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