Buying a new FW with slight hail damage
Found a new FW at a dealership that has some cosmetic hail damage. Mostly on the metal skirt below the fiberglass wall and a few dimples on the aluminum corner piece, underneath the roof membrane. I...
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Swamp Man wrote:
There isn't any such thing as a free lunch. Something is wrong somewhere. When I hear the aluminum is dented but not one of the plastic domes or vent covers are damaged the alarm bell starts ringing in my head. Run the VIN through several companies that provide information on vehicles such as collision damage, totaled, salvage, etc. I would ask how many other units were damaged in that hail storm. Never seen a hail storm only hit one trailer on a dealer's lot.
No, there are many RVs on their lot that were hit, the tin-sides the worst, of course. Given that this is a pretty fresh coach, the vents and skylights haven't had much time to get brittle, so it's perfectly conceivable that none were damaged. Again, that was the 2nd question I asked. Vents would be easy, since you just have to replace the lid without pulling the base; the skylights would concern me a lot more.
Lyle
