weld broken on the slide - common??
We seem to have a broken weld on our slide. This is a 2005 Host Rainier 9.5 I want to know how common it is for a weld in the slide to break from "normal wear and tear". We found a crack coming f...
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bighatnohorse wrote:
Another way to look at is; how could a tree branch that large fall on the camper and NOT cause some damage?
Ask the KOA manager if a branch that size could fall on his/her head and not cause some damage?
And like a rear-end-collision can cause back pain weeks or months after the event, how can KOA deny any liability in this issue? Frame damage by that tree event could present itself after months of use - due to the frame structure being compromised by the tree limb.
KOA has some responsibility in this issue.
Koa offered to pay my deductible. Whether they are at fault or not they offered to do that from a few weeks ago when i first contacted them about this broken weld. I'm not complaining about KOA. KOA never denied it was their branch that hit our camper.
It's my insurance company that is denying that the branch caused the broken weld. The insurance inspection showed some powder present and they said it was corrosion damage on the aluminum caused by water. They deemed that water had been getting into that area for some time to cause that corrosion. They deemed that the branch did not do visible damage to the roof so that they did not think that the branch caused the broken weld.
Hubby has his own plan to fix the slide. If we have someone else do it...it's going to cost a minimum of $6,000. If we do it, it will be a couple of hundred dollars.
We plan to just use this camper as a guest house for visitors. We close on a house in 3 weeks. I'm kinda done with RVing. Been full timing since 2005.
