Turtle n Peeps wrote:
Wow, that's quite a story. Sorry for your experience.
This is the exact reason I like to buy used. A low mile used unit has most, if not all of it's bugs worked out. A new unit? Not so much.
I would not except that unit back under ANY circumstances. I would find a good lawyer ASAP and hand it over to him or her.
BTW, I don't know where you get fiber glass delaminates with water. They used to make water tanks out of fiber glass and many boats are made out of fiber glass.
In any event, good luck with this.
While I understand and even agree with the sentiment (that it will never be as good as new), demanding a new rig is not how warranties work. You need to go thru the process and keep pointing out issues related to the damage and demand they address those issues that qualify under the warranty...hopefully...they reach a point where it's not worth fixing and they offer to replace.
A really lousy situation for the OP unfortunately.
PS:
As far as fiberglass delamination, it's quite a common issue with boats, though it typically appears different from RV delmaniation.
- Boats often use wood or foam coring to create a structure something akin to an I-beam. If the fiberglass "delaminates" from the core material, it loses much of it's strength. Also, solid fiberglass can get a form of delamination, usually refered to as blistering, where water gets between the layers of fiberglass and forces them apart. So yes, fiberglass boats are suseptable to delamination.
- With RVs, what is typically refered to as fiberglass is a very thin layer of fiberglass over a layer of plywood. If that wood gets wet, the fiberglass is prone to delaminate from the plywood.
