Jayco roof / owner failure

[beeryboats]

Hi all,
We just traded our '06 Jayco Eagle for a fifth wheel. All was well, got a great trade in value, and then we got the call. The roof was rotten all the way around. This was our first camper so I take some of the blame, but I've now read that a certain range of Jayco's had roof issues. I could see no rips, tears, or discolorations on the inside. Yet the roof was so soft in spots you could not walk on top. We took a pretty good hit on the trade, but I learned an expensive lesson. Get up there and crawl around and check that goop around every seam. Or hired someone to do it for you.

[SooperDaddy]

The letters "RV" loosely translates to "really loses value if you don't maintain it".

I should think however that if the trade in was already transferred to the dealer then their isn't a damn thing the dealer can do about it..it now belongs to him!

[coolbreeze01]

Smells fishy to me. What did you buy?

[The_Dung_Beetle]

What a huge DRAG beeryboats. Thank you for the warning... sharing that maintenance info (and the Jayco info) is bound to save someone a lot of grief.

I would be seriously unhappy about that for sure.
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[Francesca_Knowl]

I'm not sure I understand- do you mean that the rotten roof is on the rig you traded in, and that you just now took a big hit on the value they'd originally promised? As in, "we were going to give you "x", but now you're only getting "y"?

If so, forgive my cynicism, but:
I hope you went down and made them show you the damage they say they've "just found". Not that they'd have any motive/reason for exxagerating the damage or anything...