Winnebago Adventurer Roof issues

Mile High wrote:

Effy wrote:
I totally understand how they can put something in the maintenance section of a manual and the owner should follow.

That said, I don't know any other vehicle or structure where if you don't caulk the roof it peels off. What happened if it came off entirely and caused an accident? Who is at fault? It's a huge onus to shift back to the owner of the coach for such an obvious engineering fail. If this happened in the auto industry the media would be all over this and it would a massive recall if not fines. In the RV world it gets shrugged off and they keep making them that way - knowingly of the issue.

On most coaches, heck every other coach, if you don't caulk it, then you develop a leak. Easily fixable and shame on me.

In this case it's a catastrophic failure and in my opinion completely irresponsible of the manufacturer.

To the OP, I hope this goes the way you want it and the manufacturer owns at least part of the responsibility. What a kick in the gut.

Cmon! How many rubber roofs you seen driving down the road like a balloon, or hanging off the back after they shred off. Your kind of inflating the hazard there a little.

Sorry the intent was not to offend Winnie owners. But if your telling me that the design of this roof isn't bad and that fiberglass coming loose has a better chance of damaging other things when it hits it than TPO then not much I can say. Rubber is flexible, fiberglass not so much. It's also harder and more expensive to repair. Sorry if you don't get that. My point wasn't doom and gloom but that an obviously bad design not only gets the onus shifted back to the owner but that they still continue to produce them that way. And you can't tell me that if this were any other industry they wouldn't be mandated to correct it. Not that hard to adopt another method, just borrow a method from another manufacturer like they all do on designs all the time.