I need advice on my totalled yet still beautiful baby.

[elijahsdream]

Issue resolved.

[96Bounder30E]

This thread is closed.......see the follow up here.....http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27833616/gotomsg/27834025.cfm#27834025

[elijahsdream]

It did very little damage...2 tiny dents in the nose rail. But who knows. There wasn't any water intrusion. And being stored for 3 years, in a barn would have made that thing smell like a musty ole basement. It didn't. But the insurance co made their decision. That is why a new thread was started.

[dodge_guy]

antiquedrose wrote:
Wonder if having the front end hit by a log during a storm had something to do with the damage?

???????? :h

[elijahsdream]

Started diff thread, the insurance co and I have spoken.

[antiquedrose]

Wonder if having the front end hit by a log during a storm had something to do with the damage?

[elijahsdream]

Upon your advice and suggestions It does appear the frame maybe the cause. I really want to investigate and photo it, but most of the frame is sealed behind walls. However, all of the damage and situations ring parallel to others with pin box or frame issues. So I believe this post should be closed. I may start a new one when the insurance co and I speak, as some of you have struggled, probably til the point you pull your hair out, with me thru all of this. And I can tell some were frustrated with me, and I am sorry, but I thought when I bought her that strict care and cleAning would be just what she needed to remain for a long adventurous life. Top notch attention to detail, unwavering maintence of seams with some expensive caulk. But no, I couldn't forsee this, ever. And I do not, nor have I ever claimed to know it all, especially about the inner workings of an RV. Now human minds and bodies, yes. That is why a few of you had to be blocked, didn't want to, but no one likes negative assumptions or accusations. Just friendly advice is appreciated. And maybe it wasn't outright, but pay attention to the way you present yourself. This place, this forum should be to support and inquire and to positively educate others. Life is too short to be grumpy or judgemental.....IMHO. So the waiting begins.
Thank you all again for your education of me, thats quite a job. HAHA

[elijahsdream]

Dodge guy- man, I am so thankful to all of you. I l have learned so much. You know, I would have never thought that something like a "pin box" could do this. But you can make sure that I will talk to the ins co. Now, it makes perfect sense! Why the failures we're rather sudden after being in storage....duh. The big hunka metal used to pull it may be coming apart...therefor causing the separation, thats why the damage was smallish. Then the Einstein's said to just "leave it there, don't worry about it, we'll take care of it." And THEN the water damage......OMGosh. Yes you have all just seen the lightbulb go off!!!!!!!!
And yes, I do have a documented brain injury so don't go there.

[dodge_guy]

You`ve got frame/pinbox damage! plain and simple! tell the insurance and the manuf about this. with all the pinbox/frame failures out there I really can`t believe the NHTSA says it`s isolated! (yes people have submitted pictures of the failures to the NHTSA) these are potentially deadly if they fail on the highway. Have that front frame/pinbox area looked at immediately!

[elijahsdream]

Thanks JJBIRISH.

[Water-Bug]

Bird Freak wrote:

Water-Bug wrote:
Westend
I've been suggesting that the OP cover it for days. They completely reject the idea for some reason. I've even been chastised and told that I am preaching to myself by others. I even suggested that her insurance may find it "failure to maintan". All to no avail.

Maybe it was the way you went about it.

If I were the only one who said that it should be tarped, you could be right, but MANY others have agreed that it should be. The OP wanted peoples opinion and then chose to do nothing. Tarping it could never have harmed anything. I'm done here also.

[JJBIRISH]

if its wobbly on its landing gear and putting the weight on the pin box creates more damage, I am not sure I would get up there to tarp it or hitch it up to move it either… there is a safety issue and that has a higher priority…

I don’t think I would have brought it back home…

The insurance knew where it was and they could add storage fees to the damage or have it moved and protected themselves… They are not in the dark here they know its leaking and the claim has been made already… just my humble opinion… and with that I am out of here…

[elijahsdream]

Thank you Westend. To put this thing back in the barn, well it would be a bad thing, because of how the barn is made and positioned. We fear it is going to be too much stress if it is structural. I do not want anything happening to ANYONE or to their property...ie the truck pulling it. What do you think the insurance would do if that would happen? After we were told not to? Oh boy, my butt wiuld be in a REAL sling then.
BirdFreak- I had to stop beating my head against a wall a little while ago. Kinda like when you tell ur kids NOT to do something and they keep it up?!?! Exasperating.

But I will have nothing new to post until the insurance and I speak. So therefore it has been recommended to start a diff post with that. Whatever it may be.
Thank you all for your advice, and most of all your time.

[Bird_Freak]

Water-Bug wrote:
Westend
I've been suggesting that the OP cover it for days. They completely reject the idea for some reason. I've even been chastised and told that I am preaching to myself by others. I even suggested that her insurance may find it "failure to maintan". All to no avail.

Maybe it was the way you went about it.

[westend]

Water-Bug wrote:
Westend
I've been suggesting that the OP cover it for days. They completely reject the idea for some reason. I've even been chastised and told that I am preaching to myself by others. I even suggested that her insurance may find it "failure to maintan". All to no avail.

Yup, I've been following along.
Part of the problem, as I see it, is that the OP is way out of her realm with what's transpired, has a huge emotional attachment, and is relying on the first trusted person to lead her along. A person like this only gets part of the information that's shared and has a hard time knowing what they're hearing. It's not an indictment, it's just because we all have different skill sets. There may also be things in the background of which we're not aware. Granted, the trailer shouldn't be moved anymore than is absolutely necessary but there is little to lose moving it across the yard. The pin box could be braced while backing it into the barn so that any calamity is deterred. I'm just about done here.