Where was the craftmanship/workmanship

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So, we bought a 2023 Beacon 42RKB 12 days ago. We had it inspected before we purchased so I knew of the few issues that it had. I was able to correct those very quickly.

Now we are traveling to South Dakota (There tomorrow), and I have had a couple other things to gain knowledge of as I learn our coach. I am pretty surprised at how sloppily these units are thrown together. I had the grenade pin apparently disappear on the gray tank Valterra valve. I of course opened the wall in the front bay and was shocked at the mess of wires, ductwork, cabling and such that I was confronted with!

Workmanship is totally missing. I will have to straighten up and rerun pretty much all of it under there to meet my personal standards. I suspect that this is pretty common across 5th wheels, but I was shocked none-the-less.

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FWIW had an oops with the trailer and was at the “body shop” getting it fixed. Damage was to the metal skirting below the fiberglass walls only so wasn’t a big deal. However asked the tech when we picked it up what he thought about the construction relative to the other 5th wheels he’s seen, answer without much thought at all was VanLeigh did a better job than the other production units, lots of little things. So hope that helps. And yes there are better units but at 2-3X the cost.

And a no cost water leak detector is to turn off city water and use the water pump, if it cycles after building pressure water is going somewhere…

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