How durable/reliable are slideouts?
As I look around at various RV's to eventually figure out what I'd like to buy, one of the designs I really like has a rear-facing slideout. With it in, the bed is a sofa, and if you slide it out the ...
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pnichols wrote:
I've never had a slide RV and never will, so I will never know "from luckout experinece" how reliable they can be. Just looking at them made me wonder about the reliability compromises they must be introducing not only with regards to getting stuck or leaking ... but in the structural weakness they must be introducing into the RV's internal framing - especially sidewall shear strength.
There is one "law of the universe" that quality construction and no amount of engineering/design dollars can trump: Increased complexity will ALWAYS reduce long term reliability. One cannot get around it.
If you use that line of reasoning with everything then you'd never buy a diesel engine, or a gas engine, or an air conditioner, or pert near anything else. Doesn't mater what is produced, someone is going to have a problem with it here or there.
