Recent Quality Concerns? Fall 2015 On Especially?

We have bought two new rpods, a 2010 171 and a 2015 179. Barring a couple very minor issues ( that were all taken care of under warranty) we have had no serious issues and are very happy with our pods!
One important thing to remember is that your dealer is the one that should do an inspection and either reject the pods if there area real problems or fix them before you ever touch your rpod.
We had a seal issue, a a/c shroud that had a crack near a screw and peeling stickers. Also a bad CO detector, all issues were addressed and fixed by our dealership with no hassle or problems.

I suspect the data would be biased, most owners only go looking for info and find us if they have a problem.. thousands of owners, who may have had no issues at all, may be out there, happily podding along.

Originally posted by Retroactive Oh, I agree the level of QC is unacceptable.  FR should not be using the "F*ck it, ship it!" mentality.  Things like plumbing disasters will eventually bring them a lot of pain in the form of class action lawsuits.  Trust me, I am keeping my fingers crossed... I already found some things that made me go grrr! (I'll be addressing some of those issues during my next mod diary update)

Gee. this seems like a threat to me.  As for reading your posts I am not likely to give them much time in the future.  Have a nice life.

Originally posted by codycountry Techntrek, I really want the trebuchet rack for my Rpod out here in the formerly wild west.  Kindly provide contact info for purchase.  Then provide the build info for the trebuchet.  That would be a blast!  I love those things.   Maybe I can get a grizzly bear or wolf with one of those.  Whole new perspective to Rpoding.  Fun stuff.   Thanks for opening up new Rpod horizons!

As the original author of this topic that has gotten much attention in the last few days, I thought I'd post an update. I purchased my 2016 179 and picked it up on December 16. It's been great! A few minor issues, but nothing at all major or unexpected. I will say that thanks to this forum and the FB group I was well educated with what to look for as warning signs before agreeing to purchase. My dealer had 4 179's on the lot and I deeply inspected each and hand picked the one I wanted to purchase. My dealer let me spend extensive, unsupervised time in each one. I will say there was 1 in which I found several of the issues I'd read about. On mine, I saw none. The minor issues I've dealt with have been an unconnected interior speaker (easy fix), a broken flip foot jack bolt after 2 trips (easy fix), and a pain in the you know what gas/CO2 detector (still working on that).

I adore my pod. I'm so glad I found this forum and the FB group to support me through my first time RVer fears. I am much more active on the FB group than this group, due to convenience as well as level of activity. But, I hope to see y'all around both places!

Kathryn
Houston, TX