Staples seem to be the fastener of choice. When you put wire staples through cheap 1/8" Luan, you can't expect much in the way of durability. Fortunately, I have the electrical and mechanical ability and the time to fix KS's screw-ups. I shouldn't have to, but it is what it is. The real dis-service is to the older buyers who may not have the knowledge and the physical dexterity to crawl around and under these trailers looking for problems. Their best hope is that if something is going to break, it will do it within the first year, and that's not always the real world. I don't know if there is a fix for this. As long as there are new buyers who buy because DW likes the fabric color or the countertops, this will not change.
We tend to blame it on the workers who build them, but I'm more inclined to think that this is perpetuated by the shop foremen trying to make their bonuses for meeting a production schedule and the bean counters who have priced everything down to the penny and the second. If a worker stops a production line because he accidentally drove a screw through something, he would likely be fired. They are banking on a new trailer holding together until the warranty runs out, then they are in the clear.
If it sounds like I have little respect for production line facilities, your perception is correct.
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