Slide won't go in

Delphine wrote:
Just bought a Thor Miramar 34.2 and having issues with the slide....can't get it to go back in. Sure wish we got some kind of manual that trouble shoots this problem! Anyone have a solution?

It's possible that even though you have voltage in the basement, feeding the slide motor that can be checked at the controller and if one is present, it could well be disappearing as soon as you apply the load. In this case, check the firewall under the hood and see if there's an ignition relay with normally closed contacts. Reading good across these NC contacts means nothing under load, so after unplugging the relay, replace it with a #12 or #10 jumper wire in the place of these contacts. This is a shot in the dark, with the red flag being Thor and especially if the slide controls are made by Lippert. However checking for this said voltage under load and no load would be proper for a proper troubleshooting procedure and with any of them. If you find a controller for it in the basement you should see voltage on the control terminals as well when you operate the key switch, since the slide motor itself is fed from chassis power and the controls are fed from the house batteries. Obviously, a multimeter is required for these procedures and doing so by any other means will be chasing ghosts in a windstorm. Then again, many get lucky without any troubleshooting knowledge whatsoever.