"pennysmom09... We have all learned the hard way that on your list of set up and close up.....be sure all slide paths are clear before pushing those buttons!..."
Agree! My current camper is the first one I've ever had slides on. About 5 months after I owned it, I slid the slides in (at home) and all off a sudden the one started balking. I stopped immediately of course, but too late. I heard a "pop".
Turns out, the cabinet door above the rear window was opened and it caught the corner of the slide when retracting. It popped off the trim on the slide on the top. I was devastated!
Closer examination, the trim that broke off was air gun nailed and then another trim on top of that was air gun nailed. No way to nail it back up and make it look right.
I ended up pulling the nails out from the back with a pair of pliers, and trimmed off the nails I could not pull. Then applied very generous amount of Liquid Nails on the back of the trim and glued it back on. I used clamp on the corner which held everything in place. I let it set for a couple days (slides were pull in anyway, didn't matter how long it sat).
It worked, easy fix, but also made me very conscious to double check the path of the slides before pulling in OR out! That same cabinet door could pop open when on the road, which could hit the slide trim when extracting.
So ever since, I've been extremely aware of the slide's path. Never had another problem, going on 2 years now.
