Greetings:

Everything is built to a price point If you want super deluxe, spend 60K on a Airstream.  The cabin has a limited amount of space to install things.  I've owned 2 Pods, they have served me well.  The mattress is a piece of crap, I travel by myself, so I put in a twin innerspring.  Very comfortable.  I cut the board under the mattress to make it easier to access the water heater.  They are not perfect, but do the job.  

Crankster78  2015 R-179

  

When we picked up our brand new 177 back in March 2011 the first and foremost issue was the awful mattress, after 3 attempts, nights, trying to sleep on it, I put up the white flag and purchased a Eurotop mattress.  Now 8 plus years later, just as comfortable and firm as the day we first got it.

Right up there, I think it is a tie for 1st place, was the poor engineering of the rubber flaps underneath the slide.  We live in mosquito, black fly, gnat territory in northern Michigan.  Our first ccouple attempts at camping in the UP of Michigan was a disaster - I would be up all night swatting full-blooded mosquitoes (mine) and by morning, it looked like a massacre with blood all over the walls and ceiling, my wife was NOT happy, neither was I.  Firgured out after the second night that the little blood sucker came in under the slide where there was a good 3/4 " gap between the rubber and the metal slide.  So I took off my undershirt, stuffed it in the "hole" and prayed to see good results, which I did.  Now, 8 plus years later I still use that old t-shirt to stuff the opening closed and NO MORE MOSQUITOES, BLACK FLIES, or GNATS nipping my blood during the night.  Yahoo!

Yeah, I plugged that one with a threaded plug and moved the drain point over to the cold water suction line: I added a 'T' fitting, one side goes to the factory suction line, the other to a threaded plug. (the picture shows a short pipe nipple and cap, but I changed it to a simple threaded plug when I bought one later on)

Of course, it's a little harder to get to now, since it is in the middle, but it is now at the very lowest point of the tank, and yet not as vulnerable to damage. The factory drain point was a short section of semi-rigid pipe that was likely to get broken if anything like road debris etc, hit it.

I also added pipe insulation after the picture was taken. 

 

I agree also with the dinette table design.  Not only can you not maneuver in or out, when you let it down to make a bed, watch your fingers.  It is a knuckle buster.  Very bad engineering.  I am in the process of building a new table (Center post) , not attached to the floor, but we can lay it down on the floor while traveling.  I will keep a piece of plywood somewhere in the truck or trailer in the event that we ever do need to make this into a bed, which is very unlikely.

What part of your Rpod makes you think “Who ever designed this thing has never spent a night in a trailer?”

I will start, 

1. On a 19/189, Having to dismantle the bed to access water pump and water heater for PM or winterizing.