General Outside Trailer Maintenance?

TurnThePage wrote:

EstorilM wrote:
I need to start following this. The trailer is fairly new, but I haven't touched a single moving part on the entire thing yet. :(

I wonder how long before I'll have to start worrying about the caulking? I'm already looking at it every time I walk by the thing. I know it's coming haha.

I'll watch some videos later, but with the slide extended, and gear tracks exposed, should I put actual automotive / wheel bearing grease on there? Or will that just attracts dirt and other crud?

That is what gets a lot of people (It's new, I don't have to worry about it yet). I closely inspected mine when it was new and found multiple places on the roof that would have likely leaked if it rained. I ended up Eternabonding around the entire roof within 2 months of owning it, and it's never leaked since 2004.

Yeah, that! I inspected the roof on my brand new, 2017 Jayco, and found five places in the sealant that needed to be fixed immediately. Along the seam between the aluminum front and the rubber roof where there's a big line of sealant, there were five places where it looked like someone had taken a 2x2 and jammed it hard into the sealant. I used a razor knife to remove some sealant where it was pushed up, and applied Dicor self leveling lap sealant.

Guess what would have happened if I had gone to the dealer three months later complaining of a leak, with water and mold inside the wall. You got it....they'd tell me it's not covered under warranty, because it's up to the owner to maintain the seals. From DAY ONE.

My gray water handle was missing the second time we used a dump station. I replaced it, and also checked the black water handle (had to cut a little hole in the under belly covering to see it. Sure enough, it was barely on. Fixed it.

I don't think you can assume much of anything on a new trailer. Check the torque on your lug nuts. Park on some concrete, and get under with a creeper and check the bolts that hold the suspension on.

Etcetera.