Plant City

[Jenstiles]

Hello! I just purchased a Oct 2016 CL21BHS. I'm confused because the VIN  has the plant city under Wakarusa indiana but the order receipt is from Topeka Indiana.  I am just trying to figure out who put my gem together. It has an aluminum roof and floor with the white cabinets inside. Thanks so much!

[Jenstiles]

It also has the little storage cubby in the slide out underneath the window.

[Merlin]

There is a fairly complete history of LL on their factory forum. See if you can figure out your build location from that info?

https://www.livinlite.com/forum/index.php/topic,51.msg152.html#msg152

[Jenstiles]

Thanks for responding! That is what I had been reading and what made me curious. Especially regarding the weights listed since mine was listed to weigh 3350.  Very odd.

[gbpack]

We bought our trailer (2016 21BHS) about the same time and it was manufactured in late November-early December of 2015, and it was made at the Topeka plant. If yours says Topeka anywhere (which you say it does), then that's probably where it was made. We toured the Topeka plant before ordering ours and it was nice. A lot larger than the Wakarusa plant (I'm told).

[nhlakes]

Hello! I just purchased a Oct 2016 CL21BHS. I'm confused because the VIN  has the plant city under Wakarusa indiana but the order receipt is from Topeka Indiana.  I am just trying to figure out who put my gem together. It has an aluminum roof and floor with the white cabinets inside. Thanks so much!

How can you determine the manufacture location from the VIN?  I tried some typical VIN lookup sites but they were unable to find anything for my VIN.

[Jenstiles]

We bought our trailer (2016 21BHS) about the same time and it was manufactured in late November-early December of 2015, and it was made at the Topeka plant. If yours says Topeka anywhere (which you say it does), then that's probably where it was made. We toured the Topeka plant before ordering ours and it was nice. A lot larger than the Wakarusa plant (I'm told).

That is good to hear. I had read
In that history Link posted that the Topeka plant didn't have their heart in it and to avoid their builds. Got me wondering where mine came from. Thanks for the info about the tour!

[Jenstiles]

Hello! I just purchased a Oct 2016 CL21BHS. I'm confused because the VIN  has the plant city under Wakarusa indiana but the order receipt is from Topeka Indiana.  I am just trying to figure out who put my gem together. It has an aluminum roof and floor with the white cabinets inside. Thanks so much!

How can you determine the manufacture location from the VIN?  I tried some typical VIN lookup sites but they were unable to find anything for my VIN.

Hello! I entered it on this vin decoder site.

https://www.dmv.org/vehicle-history/vin-decoder.php

It also said my year may not be accurate. The year is the 10th character in the vin. Mine is G for 2016. I changed it to F and it still came up with Wakarusa. I entered H for 2017 and the plant city was shipshewana. I guess it was never coded for Topeka because it was so brief. I'm not sure but that seems to be the only conclusion.

[nhlakes]

Hello! I entered it on this vin decoder site.

https://www.dmv.org/vehicle-history/vin-decoder.php

It also said my year may not be accurate. The year is the 10th character in the vin. Mine is G for 2016. I changed it to F and it still came up with Wakarusa. I entered H for 2017 and the plant city was shipshewana. I guess it was never coded for Topeka because it was so brief. I'm not sure but that seems to be the only conclusion.

Thanks! I actually tried that one but must have fat fingered it first time around - your response prompted me to try again.

Like yours, VIN indicates Wakarusa and the Certificate of Origin says Topeka.

Make:  LIVIN LITE
Manufacturer Name:  THOR LIVIN' LITE, INC.
Model:  Livin Lite
Model Year:  2016
Plant City:  Wakarusa
Vehicle Type:  TRAILER
Plant Country:  United States (USA)
Plant State:  Indiana
Body Class:  Trailer
Trailer Type Connection: Bumper Pull
Trailer Body Type:  Travel Trailer
Trailer Length (feet):  21
Axles:  2

[Steve Sanders]

That's an interesting research tool, but it doesn't have much data for older models. My 2010 6.0 and 2012 8.1 only had...
Make:LIVIN LITE
Manufacturer Name:THOR LIVIN' LITE, INC.
Model Year:2010 or 2012
Vehicle Type:TRAILER

I thought it was interesting that Thor is listed for pre-merger models.

We picked up the 6.0 at the Wakarusa factory a few hours after it was completed in June of 2009, so I know when and where it came from.

The 8.1 is interesting because the VIN plate says it is a 8.0, not the 8.1 that it obviously is. Perhaps that indicates a very early production model that was built before the 8.1 model was legally designated.?.?

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[Apollo]

In that history Link posted that the Topeka plant didn't have their heart in it and to avoid their builds.


That was a random thought from someone who doesn't have a clue what they are talking about. Did that person work at the plant? do they work at livin lite? No, it is your typical brainless internet comment by someone with zero information.

For all we know it was the Wakarusa plant that didn't have their hearts in it.


My camper was built in Dec of 2015 so is probably a Topeka build and I think they did an excellent job. So far there have been zero issues and even after doing some mods I have the found the hidden areas of my camper to be well assembled.

It weighs 4,088 but does have the vinyl tiles over the aluminum floor and that vinyl adds about 400 pounds. Don't get too caught up about where the camper was built, all manufacturing plants can turn out gems and duds.

[Jenstiles]

Nice! Good to hear!!

[gbpack]

Our trailer was assembled at the Topeka plant and the quality was very good. Plus, as I mentioned, we toured the Topeka plant and saw trailers being built. I've been through a lot of different types of manufacturing facilities over the years during my commercial insurance carrier, and the work they were doing there was pretty good.