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  1. If you are in AZ try buying Desert honey at Costco. Not the Kirkland honey. Desert honey is darker and has a distinct flavor. Moisheh
  2. ganto: Many of the Class 8 trucks have problems but not as bad as your Sprinter. This is what happens when a Gov. agency ( Carb and EPA) place unreasonable demands on the manufacturers. The pollution equipment will work one day. But it could take a few years.
  3. gabto: I have read about other owners with those problems. The DEF/SCR systems are very complex. Too many sensors and that is usually where the problems start. I suggest you look for an expeditors forum. They have lots of members with that vehicle. Have you tried a high volume dealer?
  4. Kirk: I was referring to Monaco's Motorhomes. In 2002 I toured the factory and asked that question. No, there were no engineers on staff. I was told they outsource. Other MH manufacturers buy their chassis from Freightliner who do all the engineering. BUT most RV mfrs. do have some journeyman electricians in order to comply with RVIA codes. What makes you think that an engineer is needed in a trailer factory. If the chassis is built elsewhere it should be engineered to do the job. The RV mfr. is simply bolting down a floor and installing walls and roof. If you have ever seen an RV in an accident it looks like it was made from toothpicks. They literally fall apart. There are exceptions: Both Marathon and Country Coach did have engineers. AS did Winnie. I don't think Tiffin does.
  5. cyberdave: Very few RV manufacturers have engineers on staff. Until about 2006 Monaco had NO engineers. Until Tiffin started building frames they had no engineers. Even then the guy who engineered their MH chassis was not an engineer! I cannot speak for trailer mfrs. buy why would they have an engineer in order to build the house of a 5th wheel? They supply LIppert with drawings of the layouts and Lippert designs the chassis to handle the locations of the entry door and slideouts. The RV mfr. has offloaded the engineering responsibility to Lippert. RV mfrs. have become assemblers not mfrs.
  6. Glen West: I do not know why you continue to support Lippert. They make a lot of very bad products but the RV mfrs. love them as everything they make is low priced. Most ( maybe all) 5th wheel mfrs. do not have structural engineers on staff. Some would not have ANY engineers on staff. The whole idea of not building the frames in house is so that someone else can do the engineering. In this case it is Lippert who DO have engineers. But this is not like building something at Boeing. 5th wheel frames have been around for over 40 years and until lately there were no frame problems. The Lippert slides are almost as bad as the frames. Lippert means "Junk" in the Swahili language. AS for the welders in the factories: RV factories have never had $35 an hour welders and never will. But there are all kinds of good welders who work for RV mfr. wages in the Indiana area. The auto industry also "farms" out a lot of their production to others such as Magna. The difference is that Magna builds to a proper spec.!
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