Thor Axis slide

The problem of not reading the manuals? That would apply to me and many others I am certain.

Mine is set up that way. Tiffin gas jobber

You will find that all motorhome manuals (except for perhaps the really nice ones) have a lot to be desired, and are very generic. Like there is one manual for all Hurricanes, with no model specific information.

On edit: the manual says you need to set the parking break on page 64 ( if I read the right manual) to both extend and retract a slide.

Had you released the parking brake after moving the slides out? You should not have been able to move them either direction until the brake is set. It also should have been covered in the walk-through, because the interlock is so common to gas motorhomes that all service techs and sales people should know about it.

The slide control panel used by Winnebago has a "parking brake" light to remind you why the slide won't move. But they also put the information in the manual.

My Hurricane manual says to set the parking brake to extend or retract the slides.

Note: Make sure that there is adequate clearance to fully extend the room.
1. Apply the parking brake
2. Make sure ignition is in OFF position.
3. To extend the room, press and hold the ROOM CONTROL
SWITCH in the “OUT” position. When the room is fully
extended, release the ROOM CONTROL SWITCH.

Taken directly from the thor axis manual page 64. see # 1. Looks like Thor did an adequate job explaining the procedure to me. I have a Hurricane made by Thor and you do need to set the parking brake to extend or bring the slides in or out

My Boo-Boo.

Don't know how I missed that.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

I guess I owe an apology to Thor.

Nick

I do wish that my coach had a checklist for when things don't work. A while back my generator wouldn't work so I had to use the main engine to charge the batteries. My heart missed a few beats when I couldn't retract the awning or the slides. It didn't help that I was already stressed over the generator and wasn't doing my best thinking. Someone suggested that I turn off the engine and everything was fine.

I have not, as yet, had any problems with the slide on our Vegas. I do, however, have a problem with the fact that Thor does not provide a Vegas/Axis specific manual. We are about to return to Camping World St. Augustine, for the 6th time to repair numerous, ongoing problems with this coach. Our last trip out, the windshield wipers stopped working. Since first purchased in Feb. 2013, we have had the following issues:
1. plastic chrome exterior mirror finish corroded, Thor oks replacement
2. screws popping up through the vinyl flooring, Thor okayed a patch which did not work, now entire floor must be replaced.
3. plastic interior windshield cowling, drivers side had horrible exposed jagged edge. problem repaired.
4. rear brakelight assemblies have really cheap, thin foam gaskets that leaked, allowing water intrusion into the subwall, behind fiberglass skin, and the substrate is already rotting. I made repair myself.
5. windshield wipers stopped working, this is another reason for the return to Camping World for repair.
6. heater/AC dash blower motor has had loud howl and screech since new, and this problem required 2 trips to repair center, yet to be resolved. I was told by Camping World, the blower motor was a Ford item, I went to local Ford dealer, and was told it IS NOT a Ford part. I incurred costs for shop time at Ford dealer for this, and was told by Camping World, they were mis-informed about the origin of the motor.
7. exterior caulking quality control is extremely poor, with sags, over-caulk, and generally messy application.
8. interior caulking in bath area, and shower very hurriedly, poorly done and unsightly. shower wall pulled away from wall, I repaired this, and the poor caulking.
9. Just developed loud creaking noise form the front of the coach, loud enough to be heard inside. Ford dealer checked front-end, and it was fine. I discovered the noise emanates from the mounting points which attach the coach body to the chassis frame. yet to be resolved.
10. right after purchase, water leak developed at water tank connections. I repaired myself, after discovering the connections were barely finger-tight.
11. power points in dash continuously blew fuses. This required 3 trips to Camping World, as they were not competent enough to make a simple replacement of a 3 dollar cigar lighter, as I suggested, initially.
At this point, after a year of ownership, and 2800 miles, 800 of those back and forth to Camping World, we hope to have these issues resolved, finally, this week. Apparently, obtaining warranty permission from Thor is a slow, tedious, adversarial process. I repaired some of these issues myself, as it is expensive to drive an hour each way to Camping World, and quite frankly, I have diminishing confidence in the competence of the service center. It is a crying shame that such an interesting, livable, economical to drive, well designed coach has such mundane quality control poor workmanship issues. The introduction of the Thor Vegas/Axis was so well-received, with such fanfare, it is too bad the actual execution of the smart design was so horrible, in rushed construction, and nonexistent quality control.