Schwintek slides

[Semi_Retired_Gr]

2013 Tiffin 30GA. 15k miles - immaculately maintained. In Arizona Feb.-March. When retracting the front slide the rear portion of the slide (the kitchen) stopped and the slide was skewed. Stopped - extended - and tried again. Same thing. Multiple times. Looked online and found the slide could be manually controlled. Retracted. Took the MH to the dealer - now 3+ weeks later they have photos of the floor where the slide roller has indented the subfloor approximately 1/4". Therefore the slide binds and the rear motor stops. Tech convinced the rear portion is too heavy for the support system therefore indenting the floor - BTW - front floor shows no indentation. As a design engineer seems obvious to me. Tech has asked Tiffin for support - so far not responsive. Sent photos Thursday evening and hoped to have a better resolution today - so far no response. Seems a Tiffin design/build problem. Hope they'll stand behind their product. Will post as soon as we get their response.

[katoomer]

We too have a very heavy kitchen slide. It failed one time. We had to disconnect the main shaft from motor
and then it took 3/ 220 lb men to manually push it in

[streamcamper]

Wow. Instead of driving with the slide out to a hill, could you have tilted the coach with the levelers to achieve the same advantage?

[fivejackie]

We have this happening with our Hurricane 27k. Its comes in ok when empty. When the RV is loaded I have to pull on it while my wife works the switch. The last time we couldn't get it in this way. So we loaded up and dropped the jacks. I drove out of our site on to the road. I drove up on a side of a hill. With the help of my pulling and gravity, we got it in.

[kjburns]

Yours work? Both of our living room slides have failed on a 2015 HR Vacationer. We're under warranty so I think we're okay.

[newman_fulltime]

Its not just on tiffans I have seen it on redwoods and others the redwood used a sheet of aluminum to fix the floor

[Semi_Retired_Gr]

newman fulltimer wrote:
Why not put more rollers to divide the weight

Seems an obvious solution. Techs and I agree. Wished Tiffin had considered it during design/build. Of course now we have to address the floor indentation.

[newman_fulltime]

Why not put more rollers to divide the weight