pnichols wrote:
j-d wrote:
You're saying your Winnebago has a partial "cap", a foot or so down the front surface. I call that feature a "Tiara" and only realized recently how helpful that feature actually is.
That's also what my 2005 Itasca Spirit has. This molded fiberglass piece is thick material (like a boat hull) that laps at least 9 inches over and all along the crowned roof's forward facing edge - following the heavy crown of the roof perfectly. This molded fiberglass piece also overlaps about the same distant downward to cover all along the top edge of the front fiberglass flat wall piece.
By the way, I think I fixed any leak potential from my cabover lights long ago. I put a round piece of Eternabond over all five holes and then screwed the lights back into place. They don't light up now but they're visually "there", with no wires leading into the wall cavity to provide a leak route for water to follow -> especially when traveling down the road in rain that is hitting the motorhome horizontally. I'm not quite sure what purpose these lights serve on a Class C motorhome, anyway, other than providing a great water path.
The lights are required by DOT. This tells oncoming vehicles that they are meeting a wider than a car vehicle and on the rear also for the same reason. Do you think that RV manufacturers are going to put them on just for the fun of it? If they can save a penny anywhere they are going to do it.
Here is a
link that shows what lights are required and if you look all the way at the bottom it shows a class "C" MH.
I would suggest that you should maybe make yours work again before some officer looking to hand out a ticket gets you unless you never drive at night than you don't need to worry about it.
The regs shows they are required on any vehicle wider than 2032mm which is 80".
