Slide-out jack stabilizers. Good or bad?
I'm wondering about the use of slide-out stabilizers. Will they bend the slide-out supports over time?
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rjxj wrote:
What do manufactures say about charging batteries at 14.8 faults or equalizing it 15.3? they say your converters good enough energy to do everything as built you don't need to do anything to it. from reading up so many post it seems like a lot of stuff doesn't know celia sara lee go by the manufactures recommendation. I have a fifth wheel that was manufactured with 15 inch marathon tires it now has fire stones 16 inch
I'm always said every camper has good "quality" when used for the purpose which it was designed for."
It when we attempt to do things to our campers they were not designed for, that when things go wrong. Far to often we blame the manufacturers, when in reality, it is US who have misused it. The quote above is a good example. Granted larger tires may not hurt anything, but the manufacturers somehow determined what size was best. The charging system, converter on our campers are designed to handle a specific amount of load. Add extra batteries, solar panels, customize a bunch of electronics, or whatever, and all of a sudden, the electric system designed for the camper is now insufficient. So it get's changed. Then something goes wrong? Fault of the manufacturer? NO!
Same is true with stabilizer jacks, especially on slides. Granted, 99% of the time, it might not hurt anything. But that ONE time? Well.... You can't blame the manufacturer when the slide rail of that slide wall gets bent or broken.
To often we attempt to take something designed for a specific purpose and turn it into something other than that purpose. It's not the 'quality' of the product or the manufacturer's fault when it breaks.
My classic example... You purchase wooden kitchen chair that is designed to support 120 pounds. A 500 pound person sits on the chair and it collapses. Is that the manufacturers fault that the chair collapsed! No. The chair was designed for 120 pounds. The consumer miss used it and it broke.
You've invested a lot of money in your camper. Do you really want to attempt to alter the design and face a possible failure that warranty will not cover?
