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Originally Posted by Ragermack
Just a follow up. We had some BAD roads last trip and I have replaced and/or braces all of the cabinet shelves and the bottom drawer in this the rear of the trailer. Very flimsy construction but fairly simple to replace and reinforce.
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We just towed our X-Lite Cougar from Michigan to North Carolina and honestly, I am surprised that we didn't have any "identifiable damage" after the roads we had to tow over...
It's disappointing when it happens to an owner, but they don't call them "ultra-lite" or "half ton towable" for no reason... Keystone and EVERY other RV manufacturer is limited in how "sturdy" they can build a "light weight competitor" for a "heavy weight trailer"...
Sort of like building a tank and then building a "light weight model using coroplast (corrugated plastic) to replace the armor plate"... Yep, that tank suddenly became a "ultra-lite model that can't protect the occupants as well as the heavier model".
t's the same with switching a 3/4" plywood floor for a 1/4" plywood floor with 2" of styrofoam and a 1/8" luan bottom layer... Or making a "walkable roof" into a "non-walkable roof" by using 1/4" (or thinner) plywood and gluing TPO to that rather than to a 3/8" plywood roof (which started out as 1/2" plywood) when EPDM roofing replaced the galvanized steel or aluminum roll roofing used in the 1990's ......
But it's not just the RV world that does this.... We still call them 2x4's, even though they measure 1.5x3.5 inches..... And in the Automobile industry, they used to call them "short bed pickups" but now they're "standard bed trucks" and what used to be a "standard 8' bed" is now called a "long bed model"....