DutchmenSport wrote:
No, its not a "design flaw" its "user error!"
My current camper is the first camper I've ever had that had slides, and it has 3 of them. About 4 months after we purchased the camper, I went to pull the slides OUT. The cabinet door above the back window was open just enough to catch the corner of the slide while it was being extracted. I didn't notice the door open. A few seconds later, I heard a "crunch! POP!" and thought to myself... what the ****? It didn't take much to see that the trim around the top of the slide (the wood stuff) had popped off and broken.
Well, I'm a life-long amature carpenter that's only completely remodeled 3 different houses from concrete to tar around a chimney, so thought, Ehh! I can fix this. And I did!
But lesson learned! Ever since, we keep bungie cords on all the doors now, exactly like SoundGuy's photo above shows! Slides never get pulled in until all doors are secured now! Never! We never pull the slides OUT unless we first check behind the slides to make sure nothing is open, or on the floor blocking the path. NEVER. It's our cast-in-stone rule now!
It's NOT a design flaw. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the cabinet catch. It was user error! I should have checked before extracting the slides.
Yep happened to us too a week after we bought our TT last summer
