RobertRyan
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seaeagle2 wrote:So whats your take on the Great Wall utes, my Australian mate was a little evasive when I asked him about them...sort of torn between the low price and the potential for low quality I think.
Same issue with another bargain basement LDV Pickups. Quality has improved but still pretty iffy, main driver is the low price like most Chinese built things with exeception of high end things like an Iphone or 4HD TV's
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Clicck
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BarabooBob wrote:What brand would that be? Don't leave us hanging.
Black Series camper, there is a long thread over at expedition portal about them.
Maybe some people will have good luck but for the price I don't think its worth the gamble.
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RobertRyan
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Clicck wrote:BarabooBob wrote:What brand would that be? Don't leave us hanging.
Black Series camper, there is a long thread over at expedition portal about them.
Maybe some people will have good luck but for the price I don't think its worth the gamble.
Same problem Chinese built but they look good from the outside
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RobertRyan wrote:Chinese Campertrailer
![[image]](https://i.postimg.cc/9F33Bw4Z/image.jpg)
Interior of the three brands of Chinese Caravans that were so,d here
![[image]](https://i.postimg.cc/rFvpxpTP/image.jpg)
Wow, you found some old trashed RVs...you do realize if these are examples of failures, the owners kept pulling them long after the ENTIRE AXLE ASSEMBLIES fell off.
I bet I could go into an Aussie junk yard and find top quality RV's that have been stripped down too.
So far no evidence of a problem being addressed has been presented.
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RobertRyan wrote:
Chinese Campertrailer
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Interior of the three brands of Chinese Caravans that were so,d here
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Wow, you found some old trashed RVs...you do realize if these are examples of failures, the owners kept pulling them long after the ENTIRE AXLE ASSEMBLIES fell off.
I bet I could go into an Aussie junk yard and find top quality RV's that have been stripped down too.
So far no evidence of a problem being addressed has been presented.
No the photo is from the Australian Campertrailer manufacturers site. showing broken down ABANDONED Chinese built RV's ,parts have been scavenged They are a major problem. CamperTrailer manufacturers are going upmarket to make Hybrid CaravansAs a result of the dodgy Chinese imports those laws were passed, that is how they addressed the problem
Hybrid Caravan
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jfkmk
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Those pictures don’t really show much, as they don’t address why the trailers were abandoned. If the Chinese trailers are truly falling apart on the road (or off the road), you don’t need a law to protect you, you need common sense. Don’t buy them! A manufacturer will very rapidly gain a reputation, god or bad.
The way the original post reads, it still sounds like your manufacturers are afraid of competition. You need nothing more than minimal safety rules, nothing else.
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jfkmk wrote:Those pictures don’t really show much, as they don’t address why the trailers were abandoned. If the Chinese trailers are truly falling apart on the road (or off the road), you don’t need a law to protect you, you need common sense. Don’t buy them! A manufacturer will very rapidly gain a reputation, god or bad.
The way the original post reads, it still sounds like your manufacturers are afraid of competition. You need nothing more than minimal safety rules, nothing else.
You just said it and have a Lemon law, too protect you when you brought s clunker. As a result people tend to stay away from imports anyway as they are as you say it orphans, as a result a British manufacturer is now making their British Caravans in a modified form locally
Lemon law way overdue for local and overseas manufacturers
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RobertRyan wrote:
Lemon law way overdue for local and overseas manufacturers
Too bad our lemon laws do not apply to RV manufacturers...
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drsteve wrote:RobertRyan wrote:
Lemon law way overdue for local and overseas manufacturers
Too bad our lemon laws do not apply to RV manufacturers...
This is why we have Lemon laws in Australia that take in RV's I know they do not exist as regards RV's in the US, going by all the complaints we have had about imported US RV's definetly overdue
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jfkmk
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I don’t know. For the tiny fraction of folks that rv that are on this forum complaining about quality, I’m not convinced quality is as abysmal as folks make it out to be.
I’ve had rvs since 1995 and haven’t had the problems that folks claim they have. Are the rvs a poster child for quality? No, but they’re not lemon law material either.
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