To make the long story short, my 2008 Forest River Wildwood TBSS that I really like, almost caught on fire this past summer. We were using it at a local park, and my wife and sister in law kept saying it was smelling like a electrical fire. Then it started, and kept blowing fuses through the day until later on where we lost all power until we left for the weekend.
I couldn't find any problems myself with it, and I looked high and low. My wife's' family electrician business offered for me to bring it into there shop on Monday, and they would look it over. They looked at it for awhile and still couldn't figure out why it wasn't getting power.
Then they found it... They traced the 30 amp plug (from where I plug into shore power at campsites) into the back bunkbeds where it goes into a junction box. Inside that junction box, wires had came apart and were smoldering each other and that's why we were smelling a electrical fire.
My biggest issue is why this was all caused. They said it was entirely caused by the little plastic bracket that broke, which is supposed to keep you from directly pulling on the wires in the junction box. Instead, each time we were pulling our power cord out to plug into a campsite, we were inadvertently pulling on the wires in that junction box.
The reason I write this is I don't want it to happen to someone else. This literally could have killed us if it would have caught fire while we were sleeping or something. If I had children and they were sleeping on the bunkbeds, it literally would have caught them on fire first being directly inches below the bottom bunk. So what steps should I take if any? Contact Forest River and maybe this could result in a recall??
Thanks!
