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    Posted: 14 Oct 2014 at 9:54am
Interesting- my 179 has no such junction box cover plate, all connections are under the A/C cover-
I've owned many campers and never have I seen such a situation-   connections have always been made under the A/C cover.

 I'm thinking someone at the factory screwed up and that is their "cover up".  

Be interesting to pull that plate off and see if there are even any connections in there.....
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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Oct 2014 at 9:28am
Originally posted by Outbound

 If you do take it back to your dealer to be fixed, ask them how they'll do it first.  If its anything less than replacing that ceiling tile (or whatever its called) and relocating the box, I'd suggest pushing it all the way up to Forest River if necessary for an appropriate fix.

The reality of what you are suggesting to have it fixed properly is helping me get over it, quickly. Smile


If it starts to gnaw at me I'll probably just trim the plate and protect whats exposed with something flat under the shroud in that one small corner. Thumbs Up 
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Originally posted by Blue's Pod

...We don't have a visible A/C junction box in the ceiling on the 2015 r-171.


I'm guessing it's under the shroud where it belongs. Smile
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I'd say that you've found the same thing as the rest of us.  Overall, quality is pretty good, but there are a few oddities here and there.  I'd also say that this approach is similar across the industry for trailers in this price range.

For the most part, I think that the manufacturers' philosophy is to do a decent job and then leave any fit-n-finish issues for the dealerships to address through warranty.  And, with issues like the sloppy work you've pointed out, maybe 3 out of 10 people would find it and would expend the effort to get it fixed.  That's 7 out of 10 who wouldn't bother - and that's a good chunk of change left in Forest River's pocket.

But, that's just me being pragmatic.

If you do take it back to your dealer to be fixed, ask them how they'll do it first.  If its anything less than replacing that ceiling tile (or whatever its called) and relocating the box, I'd suggest pushing it all the way up to Forest River if necessary for an appropriate fix.
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That looks like  lack of coordination or communication between design or engineering and the actual people that do installing. Sometimes things look good on paper or now days on screen.  But in the field it is different.  We don't have a visible A/C junction box in the ceiling on the 2015 r-171.
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By no means do I want to depict this post as FR bashing. Over the last two weeks I have crawled over every square inch of my 178 and generally I am very happy with the quality. But I did find one thing that kinda made me go, Hmmm. Am I splitting hairs here? I kinda thought the fit and finish of the A/C Shroud mashed up against the junction box plate was a little cheesy. It creates a gap. It just doesn't seem right or look good, I wouldn't have done it this way. I'm sure it won't affect the performance, however, FR still gets a fit and finish demarit in my book. What do you think? Splitting hairs here...get a life...etc..?


  
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