2010 5th Wheel with a broken frame at Pin Box
The welds have broken away from the frame and the steel has torn on either side of the pin box. My trailer is a 2010 Keystone Cougar XL-Lite 27SAB Fifth Wheel. I am the original owner. We were ...
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Yup, mobile welder. Assuming you can remove the front cap, etc. yourself...
That said since a bad pothole on I-10) was to blame for our front frame/pinbox failure, Insurance covered but we had to go through a body shop in TX that also repaired RVs and they subbed it out to a Mobile RV Repair that removed the front cap and fiberglass around the Pinbox. Mobile Welder built a new pinbox "ladder frame" out of thicker steel and welded it in. We spent 3 weeks just east of Dallas TX to complete that effort. Insurance paid us and we paid the Body Shop. $10K repair cost us about $1800 out of pocket extra due to $1K deductable and my buying my own heavier duty pinbox and Star performance Adapter.
That said since a bad pothole on I-10) was to blame for our front frame/pinbox failure, Insurance covered but we had to go through a body shop in TX that also repaired RVs and they subbed it out to a Mobile RV Repair that removed the front cap and fiberglass around the Pinbox. Mobile Welder built a new pinbox "ladder frame" out of thicker steel and welded it in. We spent 3 weeks just east of Dallas TX to complete that effort. Insurance paid us and we paid the Body Shop. $10K repair cost us about $1800 out of pocket extra due to $1K deductable and my buying my own heavier duty pinbox and Star performance Adapter.
