Interior RV steps falling apart
I have a 2007 Damon Daybreak Class A RV that's out of warranty. My wife and I are on a trip south at the moment. after stopping in several campgrounds on the way down I noticed our metal electric slide-out step was feeling a bit mushy whenever i stepped on it off our bottom interior step.
When we got down to Tunica MS i raised the RV up on its hydraulic jacks. I was in and out checking and connecting the systems and noticed the mushiness on the electric step was getting worse and also was hearing a groan of some sort coming from under the RV entrance steps. I decided to investigate a bit more so I got down and looked at the bottom of the electric step. I could see where it had been bolted to the bottom interior step casing. I tried moving the metal step and was surprised it was moving around so easy back and forth. I was shocked to see that the material it was bolted through ( don't know if its wood or not) was cracked lengthwise and falling apart! I got up and asked my wife to lock the cat and dog in the bathroom while I checked the interior steps. When I did I was stunned to see the bottom interior step had dropped down about 3 inches on the left side and to me it looked like the only thing holding this step from falling off the RV is the metal trim holding the door frame onto the RV!
I plan on rigging a brace of some sort underneath the metal step to keep it from falling off so we can hopefully finish up our trip and take it in someplace to have it repaired. For now we have a plastic milk crate bracing up the bottom step so there is no weight on it when we have to go in and out of the RV. Has anyone had a problem like this or am I the unlucky first?
When we got down to Tunica MS i raised the RV up on its hydraulic jacks. I was in and out checking and connecting the systems and noticed the mushiness on the electric step was getting worse and also was hearing a groan of some sort coming from under the RV entrance steps. I decided to investigate a bit more so I got down and looked at the bottom of the electric step. I could see where it had been bolted to the bottom interior step casing. I tried moving the metal step and was surprised it was moving around so easy back and forth. I was shocked to see that the material it was bolted through ( don't know if its wood or not) was cracked lengthwise and falling apart! I got up and asked my wife to lock the cat and dog in the bathroom while I checked the interior steps. When I did I was stunned to see the bottom interior step had dropped down about 3 inches on the left side and to me it looked like the only thing holding this step from falling off the RV is the metal trim holding the door frame onto the RV!
I plan on rigging a brace of some sort underneath the metal step to keep it from falling off so we can hopefully finish up our trip and take it in someplace to have it repaired. For now we have a plastic milk crate bracing up the bottom step so there is no weight on it when we have to go in and out of the RV. Has anyone had a problem like this or am I the unlucky first?
