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Strokenfiver
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Jun 30, 2013

Delam bubble

Went and looked at a 2007 hurricane today and really liked the coach and the layout. It had about 16000 miles on it and the interior looked to be in really good shape. The 1 red flag I saw was a volleyball size bubble in the fiberglass under the rear bedroom slide. I wasn't able to really push it in with my hand so it seemed fairly solid and upon checking the interior in that area I didn't see any signs of water. My question is how concerned should I be with this issue? Is it something that should make me run away from it. Is there a way to fix this that the dealer could do?
  • I have always been the one who says run the other way and the problem will be much worse than it is on the outside, However, this may be one of those rare instances when I may give it a second look. Mainly because if the only bubble is under the bedroom slide, that would suggest that water entrance was near the bottom of the coach, so the water would not be destroying the whole wall, but just a very low portion of it. It really depends on how much wall there is below the bedroom slide. I'm assuming not much, so that may limit the damage to something repairable. It should however significantly effect the price. There will still be a significant amount of work to fix it, but not insurmountable like it would be if the damage was higher up.

    My only secondary concern would be that if there is water damage in one area, then how good of a job did they do putting the rest of the coach together. I would be inspecting it very, very thoroughly.
  • Fine tooth comb inspection if you want to be sure... I would be very paranoid.
  • The bubble will not go away by itself..IMHO, it will only get worse. In today's market, I would keep looking.....Dennis
  • Executive wrote:
    The bubble will not go away by itself..IMHO, it will only get worse. In today's market, I would keep looking.....Dennis


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