tmartin000 wrote:
I've had my new 1172 for almost 3 years now. I have had ZERO issues that were not solvable in 20 minutes. I have used mine at least 40x and drive it 400miles each trip.
I am 100% convinced problems with the slides are SOLELY due to not leveling the truck/camper EVERY SINGLE TIME before you open the slides.
Are you an impatient guy? Then I highly recommend that you do NOT buy a truck camper with a slide, especially a Schwintec slide.
I love my 1172. Works for all 3 of us as a portable Motel for every soccer match all over the state in some seriously warm weather too.
I was waiting for this. I couldn't agree more. My lance 2007 1181 was sold to me in 2009 and I went to get it in Massachusetts on the shore. It was a bank repo. The pictures did not do it justice, It was a mess and bent all to heck. To this day I have a bent slide out room and all four corners the filon is cracked. I cleaned it up and took it to the lance dealer in Amsterdam NY. Sensing my financial situation the tech said we can fix it for X or his advice was free. I took the advice. He said to drill a small hole at the end of all four cracks and cover it with Eterna bond tape and leave it alone. I've changed the tape over the years but have never experienced any structural fatigue what so ever. Granted I had to be creative in keeping the rain out. Once I got it figured out no problem. I have pics... We got about 5 inches of rain in one hour at the beach here last night and not a drop. The Lance and Host dealers will never tell you it's a house that goes down the road at 70 MPH.
