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322. RV Industry Shenanigans and Your Best Day at the Campground

RV Miles Podcast

RV Miles Network

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Society & Culture:places & Travel

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week, amidst continued consumer frustration, we take a look at the recent update to Grand Design's warranty, the quickness with which Campendium walked back changes to its website, and what all this means for the larger industry/consumer relationship. Plus, the summer camping season is officially here, and we asked you to share your best day at the campground with us and the comments didn't disappoint. Be a part of the CONSUMER REPORT seminar taking place at this year's really. Tickets for HOMECOMING are on sale now! Save $25 a ticket by becoming a Mile Marker today! Tickets are available at https://rvmiles.com/homecoming/ IMPORTANT LINKS: For all the links to today's episode visit https://RVMiles.com/322Become an RV Miles Mile Marker member at https://rvmiles.com/milemarkers Sign up for our weekly Road Signs newsletter: https://rvmiles.com/mailinglist Support our Sponsors: *Check out all Blue Ox has to offer at https://BlueOx.com *Liquified RV Toilet Treatment: https://liquifiedrv.com * Harvest Hosts: Save 15% on a Harvest Hosts membership with MILES at https://harvesthosts.com *Use code RVMILES for 25% off RV Life Pro at www.rvlife.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

This week a bit of an RV industry update. We're going to talk about the RV industry's outlook for this year

0:06.0

Plus we're going to talk about that whole grand design frame flex thing and some changes that they've made to their warranty, the changes at

0:14.0

Campendium that we've been talking about on our news videos, and more. Plus, what

0:18.9

is your perfect day at a campground? We asked you and you answer. 322 of RV miles. I'm Jason and I'm Abby and we are to

0:42.4

RVers who along with our three kids

0:44.7

of Incris Crescent all over North America on one epic road trip since 2016. Here are RV miles.

0:49.9

We talk all things RV and outdoors from industry news to travel destinations or national parks

0:54.6

and a whole lot more.

0:56.0

If you watch our weekly, sometimes more than weekly, sometimes less news videos, you know that

1:02.0

there's been some things going on that we wanted to talk about

1:06.4

in a little more depth here on the podcast particularly with two companies that

1:12.4

had sort of made some changes or had some problems

1:15.8

and have really walked some issues back based on your feedback. They're actually

1:20.0

listening to you. So the first one being Grand Design, so there's been this thing going on. If you haven't been

1:25.8

following it, that's totally fine. What rock have you been under though and can I join you?

1:30.3

It's weird because we cover RVs a lot on those videos the new RVs and a lot of people just own their

1:38.3

RV already and they don't care at all about RV manufacturing in any way whatsoever.

1:45.2

But Grand Design used to be really well known

1:50.0

when it was independent as a company that really stood behind their product.

1:54.8

Whether their product was better than anyone else is is debatable.

1:58.6

I think a lot of people felt it was.

2:00.6

I think back then I didn't. I think I saw a lot of. it was very popular for full-timeers using grand design products. We both saw

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