Weird water issue and it's driving me crazy
Hello all. We have a 2002 Fleetwood Prowler fifth wheel. We bought it last year and it's our first RV. We have used it several times since we bought it and have had no issues. Except one...When it rai...
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We had a similar problem with our 2003 Cardinal 5th wheel. Ours would also leak, mostly dependent on wind direction, but ours was at the bottom of the bedroom slide, usually just on one side of the slide out.
I battled this for over a year before I found the cause. One day when it was raining fairly good, I put on my raincoat and went outside just to observe and see if I could determine what was going on.
I looked up and down, mostly up because I figured it was at least staring at the top of the slide.
As I was standing there in the rain, I looked at the trim piece which runs horizontally along the bottom of the slide out, outside wall and I noticed a fleck of dirt traveling in the trim piece and it was traveling at a pretty good rate, going towards the side of the camper.
Long story short, that is where the water was entering. I put painters tape to cover the trim piece, the leak stopped. I later used caulk in place of the tape, haven't had a leak since.
I hope this was not too hard to understand.
Paul...
I battled this for over a year before I found the cause. One day when it was raining fairly good, I put on my raincoat and went outside just to observe and see if I could determine what was going on.
I looked up and down, mostly up because I figured it was at least staring at the top of the slide.
As I was standing there in the rain, I looked at the trim piece which runs horizontally along the bottom of the slide out, outside wall and I noticed a fleck of dirt traveling in the trim piece and it was traveling at a pretty good rate, going towards the side of the camper.
Long story short, that is where the water was entering. I put painters tape to cover the trim piece, the leak stopped. I later used caulk in place of the tape, haven't had a leak since.
I hope this was not too hard to understand.
Paul...
