Re: Slide problems??
Your welcome, Lynn. You are so right about the patience. I have had my motorhome for over 5 years now and I think I have finally worked the bugs out of it to a point. I have a ice maker that wants to leak but only when the wife is visiting the grandkids and I ain't around to fix it. The little plastic tube keeps blowing holes. Then the inside of the motorhome gets wet. I am going to have to replace the laminate in the kitchen because it is buckled now and the carpet has a stain. I had a leak in my living room slide that I finally fixed with some eterna-bond tape but the "J" couch needs to be scrapped and a new hide-a-bed put in it's place. The "J" couch is really uncomfortable.
When I picked up my motorhome from the dealer I drove it about 90 miles to our site in an RV Resort in Lexington, MI. I stopped at a gas station to fill it up and as soon as I started pumping the gas in it started pouring out on the ground. You can imagine my reaction. I drove it to the resort and crawled underneath. Some genius had put the hose clamp for the gas tank rubber connector hose around the neck of the tank but not on the hose. And it was tight. I had to get a long screw driver, loosen the clamp, push the rubber hose down on the neck, push the clamp in place, and re-tighten it. And this was all covered in a sprayon rubber rust inhibitor that turned mushy under contact with gasoline.
While I was driving the motorhome it seemed that it kept getting louder and louder. When I crawled under the motorhome to investigate the gas leak I also found that the mufflers had fallen off. Seems the pipe that slipped over the exhaust from the muffler was just a tad to big and although the clamp was tight it didn't squeeze down against the exhaust pipe. I removed the mufflers and used a hack saw to cut slots in the end of the pipe and re-installed them. The added slots in the pipe allowed them to squeeze down against the exhaust pipe. I also discovered that one of the tail pipes was held up by a rubber mounting bracket but the other one was just swinging in the air. The only reason it didn't fall off was a double spacer bracket mounted on both pipes. I had to go to a parts store and buy another rubber mounting bracket to put on the tail pipe. The bolt holes were there, just no bracket clamp.
I called the dealer to talk to the service department about some other items I found and the operator kept putting me on hold, and this happened over a period of months. I ask to talk to the saleman and found out he had been fired. I finally gave up when Fleetwood gave me the cell phone number to the Service Manager and when I called it a recording came on that said, "The wireless number you have called has been disconnected."
I have a list of 35 items, major and minor, that I personally have had to fix on my motorhome because Walt Michael's RV Super Store in Belleville, MI wouldn't answer the phone. And when I contacted Fleetwood they sent me a letter pretty much telling me to stick it where the sun don't shine. Fortunately, after I moved to North Carolina I found a small dealership in Fayetteville, NC called Allsport RV Ctr that fixed some of the problems I couldn't. And they worked with me to show me how to fix some I could. My roof airconditioners stopped cooling and I found out that it was the control units being sensitive to the frequencies from the converter.
I had to replace the converter, Allsport did it once and when that unit went bad they gave me a replacement under warranty and I replaced it myself. Simple job but I relocated it away from some of the spagetti wiring that Fleetwood had stuffed under the refrig.
Darn, this turned into a book. Anyway, I agree with your statement about patience.
Good luck and happy Rv'ing. Got to get ready for church.