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Originally Posted by CrawfordGene  Bob,
Thank you for answering some of the questions and responding to some of the comments. I hope there will be further posts as to the many, many specific things that were posted last June and July.
I want to comment on the QC issue and your statement:
"...Old school Airstreamers accepted that a few flaws were normal and packed a toolbox. Today, our customers expect their unit to perform like their Lexus. ..."
Gene |
I'm not "Old School" and I am not handy enough to make repairs to my Airstream. Apply laminate glue, I can do this, but the issues that others have had with their Airstream is way beyond my limited level of competency. While I don't want to be chauvinistic, what about the women who buy Airstreams? If I don't know how to fix it, I'm sure there are many ladies that couldn't repair some of the issues that I have seen others report on this forum. I know my mom couldn't and I know I can't either. Yes, I carry a tool box, but that is for things like checking torque on my lug nuts (I bought a torque wrench just for this purpose) and I can change a blown fuse. But there are significant design flaws that I shouldn't have to pay out thousands of dollars to correct (axles that aren't sufficient to do the job, reinforcement of structure around the main storage compartment, filaform corrosion, installing items that were left out during production (my satellite pre-wire wasn't installed at the factory and I'm talking about one of the last 30' Safari Bunks made in 2006 not a unit made 10 years ago when no one dreamed of having satellite television at a camp site. The list goes on, but the point is, these are design/engineering issues that aren't being addressed by the entity responsible: Airstream, Inc.
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Originally Posted by silverleeper I don't understand. Voting in the United States is primarily done anonymously. This is a public forum and I don't see the connection between posting a response and casting a vote. I believe the the view count should be looked at as a vote. It's anonymous and it shows strong interest in this subject. |
While this is a public forum, we all have the opportunity to be anonymous. I don't know your last name or address and you don't know mine. The only reason we know each other's first name is that we both have elected to put our name in our signature lines or avitars. I know this doesn't make the correlation to voting any more than it was before.