Bubbled up roofs on the hwy

^^^^^^^^^^^Smart man^^^^^^^^^^^

So where do we all go to get help from the industry with crappy builds on trailers? There should be a watch dog group that can assist us other than attorneys, to watch the quality of the rigs and then when we get **** assist us all in forcing the manufacturers to remedy the issues. It is sad that we allow them to build such garbage with no consequences. They should all be in "time out".
Curly

We were on our way to Florida in July and someone in a travel trailer came along beside me and rolled their window down. I had that sinking feeling something was wrong and rolled my window down. They yelled over the road noise that my roof was raising up. I said ok and thanked them. We angled our side mirrors up to try to see the roof and sure enough we could see the front part of our rubber roof billowing up. I made it to our campground and took a look. It didn't tear (luckily), but I could see where it had pulled out from underneath the front strip a bit. On the way back home, I used rope and lashed it down to prevent it from ballooning. Made it home fine. Now I have to fix it.

I noticed mine while riding my motorcycle in front of my wife with our rig. Mine was rising up about 2ft and was from the front to almost the front bedroom a/c. You could see the rubber roof was loose although it layed flat when the rv was stopped. I just called a mobile rv tech who said he had fixed several.

He removed the front cap seal at the front of the roof. He showed me where Forest River only installed about 1/3rd of the screws. He showed me where about 6 ft. of extra roof rubber was laying inside the front cap. He said they don't bother to cut it off at the factory.

The RV Tech said air comes in from under the 5th wheel hitch into the front cap. It will get under the rubber roof and past the cap seal and raise the rubber roof up.

He cut off the excess EPDM roof beyond the front cap. He glued the roof back down and installed an extra cap seal with ample screws to ensure the air doesn't get under the roof. He charged $400 and I have not had any problems with it in the 6 years since.

I'm the type to drive along side and let someone know of such things. However, the 3 or 4 I've seen doing this were all traveling 70+mph...no way I was going to help.