Initial Quality

I've heard from dealers and owners of older vs newer rpods that- yes quality has gone down.
RV's seem to be 40 years behind cars...if you are old enough you may remember how new cars made many trips back to the dealer for warranty work. 
Not common at all now, at least it hasn't been for me.

I was fortunate to have company cars the last 30+ years so I got to cycle through plenty I personally would have never bought.  Plus I bought plenty on my own to suit my needs. 
To be honest the last 10-15 years most were pretty well made.

The RV manufacturers have a lot of catching up to do.  Probably won't happen though as almost no RVs are imported from countries where workmanship is held to a high standard.
In case anyone doesn't remember it was the imports that got the the US makers off their butts to do better..IMO.

I too have had other RV's that were even worse than the r-pod.  My gripe is most of the defects I found would have cost nothing to do right in the first place.

As for FR caring-  I'm now 9 weeks into waiting for a replacement countertop they promised 2 weeks on.

Hi D&D,

Wouldn't that be true with any RV, Boat, home or lawn tractor?

Originally posted by Old Hippy Maybe Fred but then so am I I've had my 179 for a couple of months now taken 3 or 4 trips mostly short ones , but have found no problems at all ....so far !!The only problem is that my tires seem to lose pressure after sitting for a wk or so .

I think you hear a lot more about problems than not on the interwebs. Not diminishing your issues at all, but like Leo, we have had no reason to seek any warranty claim...yet. I did notice the anchor light (that's what I call the light in front by the hitch) needed a little caulk. Other than that, I honestly can't think of a single manufacturing/build issue/surprise. Perhaps we just haven't used it enough, but we do have about 10K miles on it since last September. Maybe we're just lucky.