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Main Forum => General Discussion => Topic started by: mole007 on October 24, 2019, 11:34:37 pm
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Has anyone tracked how many days/weeks from new PC build start to finish? Also does PC take photos along the way for the customer?
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We ordered our PC on 2/28/18. From the time we ordered it to the time they started production on it was 3 weeks (3/19/18).
It went to paint on 4/27/18, about 5 weeks after they started. After being painted, they did the finishing on it, which included sending it out to Mor-ryde for the jacks and sending it out for the front and side window tinting at Zeibart.
We picked it up on 6/11/18.
At the time, we had heard they would send pictures. We didn't have them do that in our case, because we visited the plant to see the coach in production. We were able to see its progress and take our own pictures. Not only did we want to see the build, but we wanted to make sure they completed the special order parts of the coach. Everything was done as ordered.
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I think the build time may average around four months--but it obviously can vary some depending on specific options, time of year, and general shop workload. The options that may be completed elsewhere besides Phoenix (frame lengthening, liquid springs, leveling system, paint, etc) are also dependent on variables in those other shops.
I see that Free2RV's unit (previous post) took about 3 months and 11 days from order to pickup. Another recent build that I know about took 4 months and 7 days from order to pickup. My own build extended longer, a total of 5 months and 5 days order to pickup--but that included the holiday seasons when I'm sure there is additional lost time.
I didn't request or receive photos during my build, but I know that one that was recently completed did get photos; I think the Camper's Inn representative at Phoenix was the POC for those.
All the best, Mike
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We ordered November 1 and took delivery March 15 or so. So 5 months at that time.
We did get pictures during the build but at that pictures were taking by Kyle on his time as a courtesy. No idea if they still do that.
I suspect they can predict quite accurately when a rig will come off their line. But they use a number of outside shops for various things such as paint and leveling jacks and they have no control over those schedules. I remember reading at one point that 4x4 conversions were backed up by over 6 months.
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I believe we ordered around May 12th and picked up October 8th. Our build included Liquid Springs and Full Body Paint along with a 6' stretch which may have added to the time. The previous salesman told me that they actually used one of the Campers Inn in process units to fill my order which was supposed to have saved some time.
The current Campers Inn rep Bob White was great about sending me pictures during the build. It actually allowed me to catch a couple of issues on the build and have them corrected before we went to pick it up.