Leaking slide from towing in heavy rain?
The background: Got home last night from a late season camping trip in southern WA (just the dog & me so no copilot). Sunny summer-like weather on Monday! Started out in light rain and no wind that ...
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Your camper should be able to withstand any type of rain, towing or set up for camping. Me-thinks you are right, in the fact it came from the wheel well, under the slide and across the floor. You may never find the exact spot where it happened, and it may never happen again. All you can do is try to find any places where water could intrude and seal it up.
Many moons ago, I was taking clothes out of the slide-out closet in my current camper. The bottom of the clothing was wet where they hung down on the carpet on the bottom. The carpet was drenched. I removed all the clothing and get towels and dabbed up the wet from the closet, and then went to town looking for the leak. I never found it, spraying water with a garden hose from all directions, including upward, as if it could have intruded from the bottom when driving in rain. Finally I gave up looking and trying. That was more than 3 years ago, and it's never done it again. Dry as a bone under all conditions! Sometimes things just happen,in a fluke, very weird, when all the circumstances are just exactly so-so, and never occur again. I keep an eye on the closet after rains, and especially when traveling in rain, and "knock on wood" it's always dry. Never did figure that one out.
Hopefully, it will never happen again to you either.
Many moons ago, I was taking clothes out of the slide-out closet in my current camper. The bottom of the clothing was wet where they hung down on the carpet on the bottom. The carpet was drenched. I removed all the clothing and get towels and dabbed up the wet from the closet, and then went to town looking for the leak. I never found it, spraying water with a garden hose from all directions, including upward, as if it could have intruded from the bottom when driving in rain. Finally I gave up looking and trying. That was more than 3 years ago, and it's never done it again. Dry as a bone under all conditions! Sometimes things just happen,in a fluke, very weird, when all the circumstances are just exactly so-so, and never occur again. I keep an eye on the closet after rains, and especially when traveling in rain, and "knock on wood" it's always dry. Never did figure that one out.
Hopefully, it will never happen again to you either.
