[Phil P]

Originally Posted by richfaa

For those going to the fall rally first time or 13th time you will be going on a factory tour. As you are in each assembly point ask your tour guide what the quality control is for that point in the assembly. The tour guides are Keystone employees and mostly members of management. They can give you the answer.

If you have the time take a tour of one of the other brand plants and ask the same question.

Hi

My wife and I have toured several SOB assembly lines. We have found 2 that actually have a QC system.

One has a build book that follows the unit down the line. The next step is a crew leader determines the last step was completed properly before the next step is started. This only increases cost by the payroll of the “crew leader”. However the wiring, plumbing placement of studs etc are all the same for that model trailer.

The other one uses a QC system that does greatly increase the cost but is much more extensive than the previous one but you get a build book with the trailer that contains the wiring, plumbing, stud placement etc for the trailer. This company will custom build your trailer they quoted a copy of our 3665re Montana and in 2010 only cost $25,000 more than we paid for the trailer and that amounted to only $5,000 more than the trailer cost use after repairing the mistakes Keystone would not repair under warranty.

Phil P