New Travel Trailer Every Day NEW Problems
Hello...
So we bought a new travel trailer back in March. We have spent a total of 13 nights in it thus far and have been having nothing but troubles with it. We just got home and this past trip was the icing on the cake sorta speak.
As soon as we brought it home in March, we had issues with some of the trim, and was noted and let the dealer know. The electric in the both slides continue to blow fuses and on top of that, I have a major leak that I believe is from the main slide, but possibly caused by the bunk house slide. The main slide, the roof on the slide sags about 1" in the middle from the ends. I believe this is where my water issues are, as I believe the water is pooling on the roof and then running down the seal and into the camper. This past trip we noticed the floor in the bunk house tore from the slide coming in and is rippled at the other end. The floor feels "lumpy" at spots. There have been a few other minor things that I have fixed, but it's just one major thing after another. In fact last night, my awning broke... Buckled right in the middle from some rain, even though I had a tilt on the awning - my dealer just told me this is an insurance claim that he tells everyone to roll thier awnings up when it rains...
Anyway, my new RV is heading back to the manufacture this week sometime to have these items addressed so it will have about 1200 miles or so of towing wear and tear on it just to get it there and back. Not to mention the fact we aren't expected it back until the end of next month, so we can't even use it during the time as planned.
Has anyone else dealt with this? I feel like I just want them to give me a new camper. Very frustrating as I feel I will basically get a factory reburbished camper, but paid for a "new" camper. One of the reasons I pulled the trigger on a 'new' camper is so I didn't need to deal with this stuff. I'm concerned I have water damage on the floor (the lumpyness) and I'm concerned you are going to be able to tell the flooring in the rear was replaced, because of the rip, but if/when I resell, a buyer may think this was caused by something else... I feel like these major repairs are taking value away from my RV.
Any thoughts or advice on this would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks...
LJ
So we bought a new travel trailer back in March. We have spent a total of 13 nights in it thus far and have been having nothing but troubles with it. We just got home and this past trip was the icing on the cake sorta speak.
As soon as we brought it home in March, we had issues with some of the trim, and was noted and let the dealer know. The electric in the both slides continue to blow fuses and on top of that, I have a major leak that I believe is from the main slide, but possibly caused by the bunk house slide. The main slide, the roof on the slide sags about 1" in the middle from the ends. I believe this is where my water issues are, as I believe the water is pooling on the roof and then running down the seal and into the camper. This past trip we noticed the floor in the bunk house tore from the slide coming in and is rippled at the other end. The floor feels "lumpy" at spots. There have been a few other minor things that I have fixed, but it's just one major thing after another. In fact last night, my awning broke... Buckled right in the middle from some rain, even though I had a tilt on the awning - my dealer just told me this is an insurance claim that he tells everyone to roll thier awnings up when it rains...
Anyway, my new RV is heading back to the manufacture this week sometime to have these items addressed so it will have about 1200 miles or so of towing wear and tear on it just to get it there and back. Not to mention the fact we aren't expected it back until the end of next month, so we can't even use it during the time as planned.
Has anyone else dealt with this? I feel like I just want them to give me a new camper. Very frustrating as I feel I will basically get a factory reburbished camper, but paid for a "new" camper. One of the reasons I pulled the trigger on a 'new' camper is so I didn't need to deal with this stuff. I'm concerned I have water damage on the floor (the lumpyness) and I'm concerned you are going to be able to tell the flooring in the rear was replaced, because of the rip, but if/when I resell, a buyer may think this was caused by something else... I feel like these major repairs are taking value away from my RV.
Any thoughts or advice on this would be greatly appreciated...
Thanks...
LJ
