Help! Water sloshing under gel siding

Don & Barb Bogue wrote:
Before you get further You only paid 2500 for it. A dealer should give you 3000 to 3500 as a triad in on a newer non leaking 5er with a few thousand in payments. You and the DW will be much happier. We traded up 3 times with me doing miner maintenance and repair until we got our new 5er in 2005. it has ben miner work sense then.just my 2 cents....

Thank you, I completely agree. The only thing I'm struggling with is attempting to swallow those payments for X years. At our budget we would still have to be in the used range. I've heard people have success with getting last years models heavily discounted because of inventory changes but I don't think that will help from where we stand, at least if we wanted to stay in a 5er. Seems to be a steep difference from TT to 5er which is mostly understandable (structural is probably the biggest factor).

It is still very much worth looking into. I know we are coming up mid-year so we would have to ride this one out as is til the end of the year in hopes of great discounts. I think a stop in is worth while though. Curiosity couldn't have always killed the cat :)

jerem0621 wrote:
Thanks for the pic.

Looking at the side of the trailer I would start with these fixtures. These are through the wall and directly above the damaged area.

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If you drill small holes, I would repair the hole with eternabond once the leak is fixed.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

Thanks. I was already planning a few tubes of dicor to basically re-seal anything that looks remotely eh. That eternabond looks like a winner too. I'll have to add that to the camper tool box.

Just based on what I could see from the ground (in the rain).. I defintely agree with the rear section. Off the seam rail/trim piece it was running right into the caulked edge. I bet this is why they have the channels that angle off the campers now? I could probably make something to help deflect the rain in the future by using some pvc and epoxy.

Without going back in the thread and knowing this thing isn't going to win any beauty contests, do you think that eternabond would be better than filling with epoxy? I'm thinking it would be like tp on a nicked face. lol and trying to think how it will hold up sticking vertically. If it's anything like the butyl tape, I could probably press it in to try sealing as well. I'm also probably over thinking this because the holes I did put are tiny (1/16" I think).


Thank you again for the information!