Cable driven slideouts mechanism
I am considering the purchase of a Montana High Country with the cable drive slideouts. I would like some feedback from owners who have experience with these systems. Are they as reliable as the sales...
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wborst,
We had 2 Carriage 5th wheels with the cable side systems and not one problem ever. One was used dozens of times a year for over 16 years the the other so much for 9 years. 100% reliable 100% of the time!
True that it depends on how the cable system was designed and built but even on the many RV forums, cable driven slideout system failures are rarely mentioned compared to gear/rack or pin gear/pierced hole rack systems. Hydraulic systems have the most forum threads by far as to problems with many seal leaks. The rack type systems seem to have quite a few failures due to wear or tooth jumping or dirt/objects etc getting on the slide rails and stopping the advance or retracting of the slide or burning out stalled motors/stripping/shearing the pin/bending the rack type problems. Also depends on how other slide systems are designed and built also and the stremgth/materials used.
Some manufacturer's do cheap out and the RV owner is left we the mess/issue because warranties are usually only for 2 years max and most are 1 year. Not very long at all! Buying used, most will already be long out of warranty. Most of the lower cost RV's use the cheaper slide systems in their manufacturing as you'd expect.
Buyer, beware!!!
We had 2 Carriage 5th wheels with the cable side systems and not one problem ever. One was used dozens of times a year for over 16 years the the other so much for 9 years. 100% reliable 100% of the time!
True that it depends on how the cable system was designed and built but even on the many RV forums, cable driven slideout system failures are rarely mentioned compared to gear/rack or pin gear/pierced hole rack systems. Hydraulic systems have the most forum threads by far as to problems with many seal leaks. The rack type systems seem to have quite a few failures due to wear or tooth jumping or dirt/objects etc getting on the slide rails and stopping the advance or retracting of the slide or burning out stalled motors/stripping/shearing the pin/bending the rack type problems. Also depends on how other slide systems are designed and built also and the stremgth/materials used.
Some manufacturer's do cheap out and the RV owner is left we the mess/issue because warranties are usually only for 2 years max and most are 1 year. Not very long at all! Buying used, most will already be long out of warranty. Most of the lower cost RV's use the cheaper slide systems in their manufacturing as you'd expect.
Buyer, beware!!!
