2020 Kodiak Ultimate purchased: JUST STAY AWAY FROM THIS MANUFACTURER! As bad as the entire RV industry has gotten in overall poor, poor quality Dutchman seems to be reaching for the bottom and succeeded quite well.
No quality standard, no customer service, ignorant Dealers that couldn't care less about you or your RV...Their attitude is simply "just give me your money and get out of here!"
I cannot even locate intelligent life at the manufacturer to get an owner's manual for products/appliances, etc., used in my RV, ON ANY PRODUCT! You have to look-up EVERY item they put into your RV, write down each model number, then go to their website and download your own PDF for EVERY PRODUCT. But...what about the installed products that do now show a model number...Well, you just do not get an owner's manual for that product!
Then there is the overall absolute lack of quality in every part of the manufacture of this unit driven home by the three times it has returned to the dealer with only three short distance weekend trips taken in it.
The little details are all missing from its assembly on fit & finish and then even things like a battery disconnect do not come on it...With all the parasitic loads due to the products installed you have to have a battery disconnect.
This is my third RV, and it is surely the worst quality of them all, thankfully I am a good "weekend" mechanic and an experienced RV owner so I can repair most things myself, but you shouldn't have to do that with a new RV. Not as much and what all I have had to repair and then not be be given Owner's/Operators manuals for your installed equipment is insanely CHEAP on their part. If I had the money, I would drive to their plant in Goshen Indiana and burn my RV to the ground outside their facility.
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