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way2roll
Navigator II
Jul 29, 2020

First goof up, I have to share

Prepping our new FW for our first shakedown trip. I am no stranger to RV's and find it easier to fix what I can rather than get bogged down in warranty work. Anyway, saw that one of the screws on the strike plate on the door lock was loose. So I tightened it. closed the door, tested the locks etc to make sure all was good. The door would not re-open. I messed with it and messed with it for what must have been 10 minutes, undoing the lock and doing it again and would not budge. Started to panic. Thinking here I am trying to prep for a trip and I've screwed up the door on our brand new camper. What do I do, call a locksmith? Then I realized, I locked the deadbolt and wasn't turning it far enough to unlock. Thank goodness no one was around .. :S
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    B92F
    Explorer
    Jul 29, 2020
    We were at home working on ours one day, both of us had a set of keys. DW set her keys just inside the door on the counter. I was futzing around with the door lock, apparently locked it with the door still open and also set my keys on the counter just inside the door. Closed the door and as it clicked shut realized that both set of keys were inside the trailer. Road service came out and we were able to get it unlocked.

    Now there is a third set of keys in the truck.

    Another time while out camping we locked the trailer up and went into town to the store. Got back and could not unlock the trailer. DW suspects someone tried to use one of the generic keys (we had changed out the lock set) and messed it up. Ended up having to "borrow" a fellow campers small child and petite wife to crawl in the back window and open up from the inside.

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