| [GMCnet] New RV quality [message #325207] |
Fri, 20 October 2017 15:19  |
glwgmc
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A bit of a different take on this subject. Between 1998 when we purchased our first motor home, a Beaver Patriot, and now, motor homes became longer, much heavier and the sides have been penetrated in numerous places for slides. None of these bode well for something that lives in an earth quake zone!
Construction methods didn’t change much so most are still a floor mounted to a chassis, walls fastened to the floor, a roof fastened to the walls with a front cap (penetrated for a monster windshield) and rear cap about the only anti-rombus agent present.
When we purchased, a big coach was 40 feet, had one slide, weighed between 30k and 40k pounds, had no tag axle and offered reasonable net carrying capacity. Now a big coach is up to 45 feet long, pushes 50k pounds, has tag axles and still may not have much carry capacity at all. Ever more batteries to power the electrical loads, and ever bigger engines to carry the weight all add up to ever more flex raising havoc with the structure.
No wonder the apparent quality has diminished.
Jerry
Jerry Work
Kerby, OR
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Jerry & Sharon Work
78 Royale
Kerby, OR
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