smlranger wrote:
Scott, looks great on your coach. Summit now makes several versions of the stainless trim. We are interested in the 6" Premier which wraps around the radius of the doors at the bottom.
I have placed a call to Summit to inquire about the corrosion potential of stainless to aluminum. I suspect they have a solution since this stuff is fairly common on high end coaches. When we were at Tom Johnson's getting the Allure, almost every American Coach, Newmar King Aire, and a couple of Entrega Cornerstones had the Summit armor. TJ's is one of Summit's installing dealers since they sell a lot of high line rigs.
The literature I read while at TJ's suggests they use both 3M automotive trim tape and some sort of sealant. They do guarentee the trim will not fall off for the life of the coach.
Are the bay doors on your Horizon aluminum? Those on my Journey were.
SML,
Thanks for the nice comments. I may have to invest in the step cover kit for ours, what the heck, it's only money right?
As for our bay doors, I cannot tell you if ours are aluminum or not. I maybe think that if yours were, then ours are too. I suppose I could go out and attempt to stick a magnet on them to kind of confirm or not. Will do later. Some of that stuff on the Summit site looks really, really nice.
Scott
Hey SML,
I didn't know you were looking for pics of this kind of thing. I'd have sent these to you. I know you were looking for some on a CC but, here's our '04 Horizon with the 4" versions. And no, it does not look "Fake" or "Imitation" or "Cheap" in any way. There isn't a campground/RV park that we've been to that someone, or many have come up and asked where we got the nice looking "Chrome" on the bottom edges of the doors etc. I always have to tell them, "It came that way when we bought the coach". But, we're the third owners of it and, I know for a fact that the second owners didn't do it. So, it was added during the first year of ownership by the first owners.
So, the thoughts of corrosion/rust etc. "under" the stainless could have some validity, ours has absolutely no indication of it. And, not one piece has ever shown any signs of starting to fall off or become loose in any way. I managed to "scrape" the left rear one against a car in a parking lot, (man was I pi$$ed off at myself). I'd sure hate to see what it would have done to the paint if that stainless strip was not on there.
Anyway, we love them sincerely. Now that I've found this thread, and learned about Summit, I can have a replacement made for that left rear that I was careless enough to damage. Anyway, take a look at ours and see what you think. Again, it's the 4" stuff, not 6". I think I'd like the 4" better than the 6" but, I've got nothing to compare to up close. Now that I've seen what they can do with our double steps, I might just have them send a kit for them.
Scott
I didn't know you were looking for pics of this kind of thing. I'd have sent these to you. I know you were looking for some on a CC but, here's our '04 Horizon with the 4" versions. And no, it does not look "Fake" or "Imitation" or "Cheap" in any way. There isn't a campground/RV park that we've been to that someone, or many have come up and asked where we got the nice looking "Chrome" on the bottom edges of the doors etc. I always have to tell them, "It came that way when we bought the coach". But, we're the third owners of it and, I know for a fact that the second owners didn't do it. So, it was added during the first year of ownership by the first owners.
So, the thoughts of corrosion/rust etc. "under" the stainless could have some validity, ours has absolutely no indication of it. And, not one piece has ever shown any signs of starting to fall off or become loose in any way. I managed to "scrape" the left rear one against a car in a parking lot, (man was I pi$$ed off at myself). I'd sure hate to see what it would have done to the paint if that stainless strip was not on there.
Anyway, we love them sincerely. Now that I've found this thread, and learned about Summit, I can have a replacement made for that left rear that I was careless enough to damage. Anyway, take a look at ours and see what you think. Again, it's the 4" stuff, not 6". I think I'd like the 4" better than the 6" but, I've got nothing to compare to up close. Now that I've seen what they can do with our double steps, I might just have them send a kit for them.
Scott
