Slide Canopy Covers
I need your opinions. We now own a 2003 Wildcat 27RL with one slide. It is our first camper with a slide, so we had a slide cover installed when it arrived from the factory. We are looking to replac...
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fj12ryder wrote:
We've all had a bad experience with one thing or another. At least I'm assuming that Atom Ant has had a bad experience with them, and not just decrying their usage because of an opinion rather than actual first hand application.
I'm decrying their usage because of an opinion rather than actual first hand application just like everyone else on here. I don't need to buy a Yugo to understand the negatives of owning a Yugo by simply being observant.
What I do hear on the forums is a minority that seem to really need to give them a good testimony, which I suspect is to help support their decision to buy them, yet in reality I physically see far more negatives to owning them than benefits. I see them hanging off the slides after they've ripped in half, degraded, de-laminated. I've seen people out trying to cram stuff under them to keep them from banging around, I've even seen slides tip in at the top in a storm and break open the slide seal allowing rain water in because the toppers are billowing up in a windstorm and there are no choices to release them other than bring in the slides. We have entertained strangers in ours at the lake because they had to bring in there slides due to a storm, the same as the tent trailers. I've seen the stretched material in the center because they sag on the new higher slides that have more headroom but also leave less room for a good pitch on the toppers, causing them to not be able to roll back up in the middle.
Next time the wind comes up or a gully washer settles in and starts dumping down on you enough that you figure you better bring in the awning, think about how you are going to bring in those toppers - you're not!
We've had the opportunity to order them on the last two rigs, and I feel strongly enough against them after seeing some people suffer with them, they were the only option we didn't get. We were even looking at an inventory unit that had them and priced having them removed.
There are regions where they may be useful, but I've yet to find it.
