PSU1999 wrote:
Ok, this is directed to our RVing experts who have a level of experience. Assuming you have an affected unit that does not show any signs of failure what is your feeling on using it until fixed under the recall? I've read what Dometic has put on their website "don't use the unit on gas and if you need to use electric turn it off at night" how realistic is that? I have also read the initial post by Les where Dometic reported that there was a less then 1% chance of fire, which is very low. Furthermore out of all the units affected by this I'm certain there are people who are not on the RV net or who are second owners of their trailers and don't know anything about this and may never know. All of their RVs aren't going to be burning down. More than likely they will hear about this when the refer quits working. I guess what I'm saying that I will inspect the burner area regularly as instructed to look for signs of leaks and make sure my smoke and lp leak detectors are functioning however until the recall repair is made I'm going to continue to use my refer normally. Does anyone else feel this way?
Absolutely. None of my close friends to are rv'ers have heard of this. They are mostly french speaking and not on these forums; I also hit some of our local french boards and there is nothing about this on them.
Had I not read this forum, I would not be any wiser and quite frankly there are almost 1 million units within the affectecd serial numbers and there haven't been a bunch burning up as they are going down the highways. This is more of a Dometic CYA issue than a consumer issue.
I will continue to use my unit and I will simply look for any signs of trouble.
