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Originally Posted by Frznrth
If this happens - even if it's not too common - why don't they put some decent metal into these things so they don't break or at least a latch on the arm that you would lock when traveling.
If this thing flys out into traffic and causes an accident I don't think I should be responsible. Sounds like a law suit to me.
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Probably the reason is more "profit vs acceptable failure rate". Even with vehicle safety, a certain amount of "risk" is acceptable. NHTSA doesn't "recall every vehicle" based on one or two or even 10 or 20 failures. They accept that a certain small percentage will fail and that's "acceptable"
So, Carefree, Dometic, Keystone all "engineer in" a standard that provides an acceptable failure rate, or more appropriately termed, acceptable operational characteristics or acceptable functional standards. It's a given, that nothing is 100% perfect, so to make a profit, provide a reliable product and compete in the market with appropriately priced products, some failure is acceptable.
As for the law suit potential, that's why we all have liability insurance. You can bet that Carefree, Dometic and Keystone have some pretty big liability policies.
It's much like the ST tires made in China that we all complain about. We don't like them, they build them "to substandard standards" (0r so we think). Why don't they build them better? or why doesn't Keystone install more expensive tires? Profit......