ajriding wrote:
These fiberglass campers can leak and have little damage as the structure is, afterall, fiberglass. Just some cleaning agents and a rag can fix most water leak damage.
You will want to look for anywhere there is wood to see if the wood is water damaged.
The structure actually isn't fiberglass. The structure is a sandwich with a thin skin of fiberglass on the outside, thin luan plywood on the inside, and wood glued in-between to take the shear forces. Foam too, but the foam is quite weak compared to the wood. Each of the elements by themselves is weak and flexible, if any of these elements fail, you have a collection of weak and flexible elements. They have to all be there, intact and still bonded, to be strong.
Water staining can be cleaned up, but if the wood rots due to a neglected leak, that area will be weak and flexible, and likely needs to be fixed.
On the hatch over the bed, my 9.6 had an 18 x 18 as was required by regulation for fire exit. You cannot exit a 12 x 12. My 10.4 has a side exit from the bed area through the drivers side slider, probably impossible to use but maybe if you were chased by a fire you'd figure out how.
Some are doubting the price of a 25 year old camper. There is a marked difference in price between a 25 year old stick camper and a 25 year old fiberglass camper, and not without reason.
