Solution · RV programs
A vehicle program is designed, tooled and priced long before anyone specifies a water heater for it. This page is for the engineers and buyers who have to make that call — and for the drawing they send us.
Who this is for
Where the unit lands in the build decides who is asking. A line, a retrofit and a parts counter arrive with three different drawings, and the first question is never the same one.
The unit is designed into the vehicle, so the recess is set before the first order and every unit that follows has to match it.
Opens withWhere does the unit sit in the wall, and what does the door have to clear?
What changedThe recess is right the first time.
The unit has to answer a recess that already exists — one the incumbent fit, and one the vehicle was built around.
Opens withWhat is in the bay now, and what does the new unit have to match?
What changedNo bay rebuilt to take the unit.
The unit is held as stock and fitted by someone who did not build the vehicle, so the fitment and the parts have to stand on their own.
Opens withWhat does the fitter need in the box, and what is stocked behind it?
What changedA fitter has what the fit needs, without calling us.
Nothing drops through
A vehicle program has two halves. One is the vehicle and the market it sells into. The other is the unit and everything behind it. This is where the line sits, row by row.
The vehicle, the recess and the market it is sold into
This programThe unit, the door assembly and the trim, built to that recess
The chassis and how the unit integrates with it
This programThe connections the unit presents to the chassis side
The brand the vehicle sells under
This programThat brand on the unit, the door and the carton
The destination and where the vehicle is sold
This programThe build the destination calls for, locked before the run
The rate and the run sequence you produce to
This programThe build repeating to the approved reference, run after run
The vehicles in service and the yards that service them
This programThe parts line behind the unit, so a repair is a repair
Where the build goes
The same unit answers a line, a retrofit and a parts counter — because what changes between them is the brief, not the build.
Designed into the vehicle before the first order, then repeated against the approved reference for every unit that follows.
Answering a recess that is already there — the one the vehicle was built around, not one rebuilt to suit us.
Held as stock for a trade that fits it without us, with the parts a repair actually needs behind it.
Inside
A vehicle interior is designed around the bed, the galley and the dinette long before a water heater is specified. The recess has to find its place in what is already there.
The services a kitchen already brings to one wall — which is where the unit usually wants to sit.
The space under a bench or behind a squab, where a recess is easiest to hide.
The locker run under a fixed bed, which is often the only full-height wall left.
The opening
A door has to sit flush in a wall it was not cut for, swing past what is already there, and still be serviceable. That is the whole job of the assembly.
Approved as one assembly, so the swing clears what is mounted beside it.
Closes the gap between the unit and a wall it did not cut.
What a fitter reaches without dismantling the vehicle around it.
Scope
A fitment program is two halves bolted together. This is the line between them, stated before a drawing is sent rather than after.
What we build
What we do not
Send the recess and we will tell you plainly which half each item falls on — including the ones that are yours.
Getting started
Four moves, and the first one starts from something you already have.
The opening you cut, or the one already in the vehicle. A sketch and the direction the door opens are enough to start.
The unit, the door assembly and the trim are checked against your recess, rather than the bay rebuilt around ours.
How a build is developedSign-off happens on a sample you can hold, so what is approved is what the run copies.
The approved reference is what every unit after it is held to — which is the whole point of approving one.
See the unit it is built onWhere it goes
A camper is sold on where it can go. Whatever is fitted into it has to work at all three of these without a service call.
Where the water comes from a container, not a plumbing run.
Used once, in passing, and expected to light first time.
Where the only supply is what the vehicle brought with it.
Customer reviews
Quotes from the engineers and aftermarket distributors this line sells to — and what the spec sheet leaves out.
“The cut-out matched the incumbent. There was no line change.”
Our trailer program was locked to a recess and a scheme the vehicle already carried, and the last supplier drifted between lots.
Engineering sent back DFM notes we had not asked for. No dimensional reject since.
“A failed unit is a repair now, not a return.”
Our real cost is never the unit — it is the bay sitting empty while a part comes from overseas.
A priced spares list, with the door assembly held as a stocked line, means a repair is quoted and done without waiting on a container.
Questions buyers ask
Branding, fitment, spares and minimum order — the things a vehicle program decides before a first order.
Start a program
Market, annual volume and the certification it must carry — three lines, and we have what we need. Your reply comes from the engineer who would run the line, scoped to your program rather than matched off a shelf.
