Bed slide bottom fiberglass cracks

What a joke, all of this so they can use those junk Lippert in-wall slides.... Lippert must be giving these things away to manufacturers to beta test on customers looking to buy a rig to enjoy in retirement or with families!

I have pictures from a Redwood owner - his problems is that the sheeting under the bed slide was pulling up - the metal strips were installed to take care of the issue.

The metal plates on mine have a Redwood part number.

One of my emails from crossroads:

I have a recommendation, part #231660 is a flat powder coated piece of steel. I have used these in the past on other types of slides and I will bet $1.00 it will work here without getting into a bunch of body work. These are about 6” wide and the rollers roll on it. They are screwed (countersunk) and sealed to the bottom of the slide floor and add structure and a smooth surface. I know we have some due here today. I wish I could get you a picture but, I left the house without my phone! I could show you what it is tomorrow though…

Follow up e-mail:
I neglected to mention that is a Redwood part.

Installed on our unit. There is no friction between the roller and the plate so the plate no drags on top of the rollers. Have not found a solution for that yet. Maybe a little of the grip strips that are put on steps.





Installed on a Redwood unit:



Cracking we had:

Norskeman wrote:
Had the bed slide modified last fall - pretty much re-built. The fiberglass under the bed slide in the area where the last roller hits (under the wardrobe area) is now cracking due to the stress applied from the roller. Had cracking last year too and the bottom of the slide (sides too) was replaced.

The fix now may be the metal strips that was originally going to be installed to deal with the cracking. I understand that the Redwood and Blackwood (now the Rushmore I think) slides had the strips installed to deal with the cracking.

Anyone out there have a similar problem and similar fix?

Just curious what metal strips your talking about. We're interested in purchasing a Redwood and haven't heard of the bottom of the slide cracking on the BD slide. I've been paying attention to the issues on both Redwood forums for the last year.

Any insight will be appreciated.

Picked up the fifth wheel today (at the dealer from 10/28 to 12/4). I now have 5 rollers on the outside again. The three that were removed last year were re-installed. The slide had to come out of the RV to re-install the rollers. I checked the slide operation before I left the dealer - went in and out but slower than before but still went in and out without any issues. The bed got dinged up some more when the slide had to come out.

I'll check the slide operation out again tomorrow when it warms up and post some pictures of the modification.

Wonder how may other owners of the CF335SS had the same problem.

If we were a full timer or snow birder we would have ditched this unit by now.

janstey58 wrote:
We had a crack under our BR slide, and took it back to Fleetwood under warranty. They installed additional metal bracing and the of course repaired the crack.

Thanks!

We had a crack under our BR slide, and took it back to Fleetwood under warranty. They installed additional metal bracing and the of course repaired the crack.