[Motor31]

Short answer is simple. Cost of manufacture and the need to slam them out the door as fast and as cheaply as they can.

There has been a history of this back into the early days of 04 on. They slap the things together by using amish workers who are paid on the basis of getting their work quota done. As soon as they have finished their daily requirement they are out the door on the way back to their farms. I have personally seen them start as early as 7 AM and out the door on the way home by noon or before.

They also do not spend time making sure that the tools are set to the proper torque so that screws can be and are often tightened until they break. Rather than removing the broken screw they dab a bit of caulk on the end and stick the screw head in the caulk. DRV saves money by using as few different size screws as possible so that smaller ones are used where larger stronger ones would be proper.

They do not have wiring diagrams. They just put the wires in as they go depending on what is supposed to be in each unit. This can make for interesting times for the owner in figuring things out especially in the entertainment area. They had a significant problem in wiring connections for multiple years. They did not insure that bayonet style connections were tight or that the switches were rated for the load they were putting on them. This resulted in arcing, hot switches and melted insulation.

There are other issues like cutting holes in the lower wiper seals to maintain clearance with the slide rollers. That made for free flow ventilation into the unit whether you wanted it or not. Some rollers got left out in the mid point of the larger slides leading to contact with the floor in slide operation.

Three are lots of other issues. If you look back over the earlier threads in the site you'll see plenty of things listed including hydraulic lines and fittings.