To camper or not to camper... Hunting and married couple trips

[Fowl Play]

All the brands have pretty bad quality control in my opinion until you get up to the very expensive custom or semi custom campers. Being handy is a necessity with campers. You get higher quality wood and components moving up the line, but you still might have some knucklehead put it together wrong on a Friday while he’s trying to take off for the bar. My Grand Design is basically the top of the line they make. My solar panels were never connected to the rest of the system (bare hot wire laying unconnected in the pass thru). My roof ripped off in Kansas (the front cap was not installed correctly). I had a major water line break and cause a flood in the underbelly. And my electric over hydraulic brakes failed coming out of Breckenridge. This all happened in the first 2 months of ownership of a brand spanking “custom” ordered $140k unit from the factory. Even though you have a warranty, it’s a month to get into a dealer and a two to three month wait minimum to get your trailer back. Even with a brand new unit, I wound up performing all the above repairs myself, just so I could keep using the trailer. It was a major pain in the ass. Still having a blast in it, and no major issues in a long time (knock on wood). Just preparing you for the reality. The interior work (wood, counters, etc) are all very well done in mine. But looks like a meth head did the wiring and plumbing.

A friend with an almost identical unit purchased a month earlier has had literally zero issues in almost 2 years of full time use. It’s hit or miss on quality control.