I have nothing against Lippert. If they built these things to take a serious beating, the coach would weigh 500+lbs more. Then people would complain about less cargo capacity and dry weights.
My current TT is on a Zieman frame and would have had the same failure had I not known how to prevent it. In fact whoever flame "Gouged" out the the huge holes in my x-members to install the propane piping, Komfort, took away a very important piece of steel in that area. The use of a hole saw would have been the correct way to do it, but the torch was faster I guess. Neither Zieman nor Komfort could tell me who's idea this was. I ended up fixing it myself after Komfort's sad failed attempt at scabbing on some angle iron with a stick welder and burning some more holes in the x-members. Ultimately just costing me more time to make it right......
I went to the dealer and had a look at all the Trailblazer products on the lot....they were all defective! Wonder how many got fixed after I brought it to their attention? Just mine I bet.....I even offered my shop to give them estimates to repair all of them in the area to save transport costs! lol!
Funny I told a HL rep last week that I would never buy another Thor owned product after dealing with Komfort on that issue. What are we about to do?
There are only so many choices in any industry to choose from. Need something for your computer at 1am.....Walmart it is! What other choice do you have? lol!
Assuming this new 5th has a similar potential issue on par with what I have seen in the industry, I'm undecided as to void the frame warranty and fix it before it fatigues or let it do it's thing and hope for the best. Then mod it after the warranty is up.
I understated that if you want an industrial strength RV, you gotta spend the big bucks! Double what HL has to offer. Then use a class 8 truck to pull it!
Tony
