2016 NL Delamination
I purchased my 2016 NL QCSE in April 2015 and recently noticed a bulge forming on the starboard side wing just below the cab over - see below. Since this rig is less than a year old even by i...
Forum Discussion
KKELLER14K wrote:
I will never buy new or a unit that has composite siding ever again...the OP is lucky...really lucky. Had this been 5 years old...you would have been shown the door. They are all in it for profit...period. I don't care who says who builds the best...I have been turned away myself on a delam issue by supposedly one of the best...between my dealer and the factory. Who wants to pay for a defective product and wait months to have it fixed? Build a tiny home with replaceable siding or any RV you can repair yourself is where I'm at with an issue like this these days. Be warned and learn something here...this is a great real world experience. OK I feel better now...lol. No but in short, be prepared to carry the burden and encumbrance of having to pay to have it fixed...it happens all the time to good people...and not all turn out this way.
I agree that it would be a devastating thing to occur and we all hope that the mfg will provide some if not all the compensation needed to correct this kind of problem...
I and 100's of others have had no problems with our Fiberglass shell campers, just lucky or something else underlying, who knows.
We have had our Bigfoot for 16 years and it has traveled almost 200,000 miles over some extremely rough roads riding on our stiff Ford f250 suspension... The Dalton Highway Alaska and the dirt rock roads in the back lands of Utah etc... We have some cracks in the Gelcoat in a few places and that is it...
Think there have been more Delam's of Arctic Fox, Lance and others, especially the nose and under the cabover than Northern Lites and Bigfoots, along with premature ROT in the side lower wings... And in the early days of Filon etc siding... Oh my.
Jim
