Full wall slide vs multiple smaller slides

Mile High wrote:
Has anyone ever heard of structural issues as a result of a full wall slide? They have been around for years. I thought the same thing 12 years ago when I first saw one, but never have I heard of an issue.

The only exception may be the Lifestyle 5th wheel that had a full wall slide, and they dropped it when they abandoned their square tube frame and went to the standard Lippert I-beam frame and 2 years later closed shop. I don't think the change was due to structural problems, I think they just couldn't afford to keep making them that way and gave a last ditch effort to try to make 5th wheels like everyone elses, but it was too late.

I have not. However I have read plenty of FWS issues on this forum and others over the years. There is a very bad FWS mess with a new Newmar going on this week on the Newmar forum. IMO they are slightly more problematic than a regular slide. Then again they displace two regular slides so are they more problematic than two slides? If you remove what a couple mfg's have done with over loading the FWS with the less expensive in wall slide system the statistics go down. Regardless I make the sign of the cross every time it goes in/out with no issue. So far so good!