Winnebago Adventurer Roof issues

Mile High wrote:

Effy wrote:

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.

Oh but I do get it - you have a TPO roof and have nothing better to do than pretend to be an expert on fiberglass roofs and their design and their rate of fail and consequence.

If you actually had one or even worked on one or if you had ever even seen one, you would understand the construction and that even when the edges lift there are multiple roof fixtures and appliances that aren't going to let it go in whole, so the best case is you may get some pieces coming off. Its for sure less of a hazard than the **** trucker recap I hit the other day that cost me $650 in repair to the coolant system.

The OP has a legitimate complaint - the rest of you are just bored.

I read and re-read this a few times. No idea what you're rambling about.

It's a poor design, it causes issues, Winnie still makes them, onus tries to get shifted back to owner. the rest is rhetoric. Doesn't take a genius or even a fiberglass roof owner to know these things. On the contrary, I wouldn't buy an RV with this design. You call that lack of experience, I call it good judgment.