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apr67
Explorer
Jul 01, 2019

TriMark Door Handles - Please submit failures !

The Trimark 1650 door lock failed on our RV. My RV is a 2017. We stopped to get gas, I got out and it worked fine, filled the RV up and went to leave and the striker on the door latch had failed. I...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Jul 02, 2019
I have had that happen to me twice.. the second time I had a smith carve me a new stricker bolt out of STEEL instead of the **** pot metal Tri-Mark uses

Same with the basement latches.. I have some spare STEEL striker bolts which I will be installing as the pot metal jobs fail and fail they will.

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