2000 Coachmen Catalina Sidewall Repair
Hi all, During the last trip of the Summer I was traveling home on one of the worst maintained roads I have ever traveled. For nearly five miles it felt like I was getting hit by another vehicle, onl...
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larry cad wrote:
Unfortunately you are experiencing what all too many find out about typical RVs. The manufacturers build these things cheap and quick. The result is amazing deterioration as we go down the road. Wood rots, metal rusts and fasteners break, pull out and disappear. It happens in all brands and models, including top of the line diesels as well as small towables. It is a problem but we keep buying them and they keep making them with huge built in problems that no repair shop knows how to fix. I wish you luck, but this is going to be a journey!
What you're saying can be true and evidently is in this case, but I can honestly say, that many are built pretty well, as in the Tropical, we sold. At 18yrs old it was as good as ever, other than starting to show it's age here and there. Certainly no signs of rust or falling apart anywhere.
With our present 9yr old coach, it looks to be built even better and should serve us well, also.
To the OP and if it were me, I'd do the best I could for patching it up and getting rid of it. Having it done professionally, as some would call it, would surely lead to paying an astronomical price, that would well exceed it's market value and you'd end up with still having the same workmanship that you had in the first place.
