2008 r vision wall sinking

Beatfarmer wrote:


There’s no such thing as “a little bit of damage”. Whatever you can see is just the tip of the iceberg. I’d imagine if you can see that much drop in the wall, the actual damage is much more widespread and will most likely go up into your roof. Damage to a structural support is something I wouldn’t want to try and deal with.

My suggestion is to see if you can get anything for it on a trade in for a new camper.

A little over the top dramatic, are we?

Damage can be widespread or local, no way of knowing what you have until you open up the can-o-worms.

Either damage can be fixed, it is more about how much time and money you are willing to toss in.

Chances are, OP simply needs to find and remove damaged material back to good studs in the floor and wall edges. Then it is the matter of bridging the repair areas by "sistering" new material in place and correcting the damaged metal frame part.

Takes time to do this but chances are if OP is handy with basic carpenter tools like circular saw, jig saw, nails and hammer and perhaps drill/screw gun they should be able to make at least a good enough repair to continue using the RV.

Telling one to sell or trade is pretty extreme without seeing in person and getting a good assessment of the damage.

Typical RV building techniques, the floor is built on the frame, the walls then sit on the flooring and the roof sits on the walls. A failure of the floor studs at the edges allows the walls to sag. To stop the walls from sagging you need to address the reason the floor edge failed.

Can it be fixed? Of course, how much money are you willing to spend?
Do you have the knowledge and space to do it yourselt?
If you do it yourself you will have to support the roof and remove the wall to repir the floor and then reassemble everything. Shoving in a piece of plywood is not a repair.

For many years I towed often full time a 2001 or 03 R-Vision 28ft Trail Cruiser throughout western U.S. and for many miles on rough rural roads with no serious problems at all. R-Vision was built by quality Monaco Coach in those years but I still surprised nothing shook loose due to rough treatment on bad roads.

I wish you good luck to solve your problem. Maybe a detailed google search will yield you a YouTube video or link to fix the problem. Often works for me.

Is it fixable? Yes, in the sense that you can rip apart everything to get to the damage and repair what’s broken. Is it worth fixing? I can’t answer that for you. What I can tell you is in 2017 I had a few things to check out and fix on my 2004 Rockwood. The sewer connections got damaged by a large bump on the highway and was hanging down, grinding away on the road. (I had flushed the tanks out and was taking it to my brothers house to store over the winter) Spring of 2018 I go pick it up so I can work on it. I took a week off from work and figured I could get it fixed in that time. I’ll spare you the details, but last year we took our first trip in our newly renovated camper. Consider your options before you have a trailer that can’t be moved until you fix it.

There’s no such thing as “a little bit of damage”. Whatever you can see is just the tip of the iceberg. I’d imagine if you can see that much drop in the wall, the actual damage is much more widespread and will most likely go up into your roof. Damage to a structural support is something I wouldn’t want to try and deal with.

My suggestion is to see if you can get anything for it on a trade in for a new camper.

For that to happen in a 2008 R Vision you have to have a failing floor assembly and / or broken outriggers. The outriggers support the floor and more importantly edge. The floor is a laminated assembly of two layers of thin plywood with foam and a square aluminum tube frame between them, glued and pressed together into a sandwich. It has a continuous piece of this aluminum tube at the edge along the sides of the floor assembly, on top the ends of the outriggers. The wall sits on top of this and is bolted down through the floor assembly through the outrigger. The wall is the same type of laminated construction.

Pictures would help us understand the problem.