MM49 wrote:
JJBIRISH wrote:
MM49 wrote:
I was fixing the water tank support on my Sunnybrook and noticed it was a Dexter frame. I am very impressed with the design and manufacturing. Every suspension point is reinforced with a well designed plate. The floor trust use round rod in cross pattern simular to comercial buildings. The I beams are a light weight RV design, not and assembled beam. I expect good performance for this unit.
MM49
One manโs experience with Sunnybrook and Dexter framesโฆ
Fixing the water tank supports seems to be a popular pastime on the Sunnybrook trailerโฆ
also its the weak Dexter frame that allows too much flex in the trailer causing things likeโฆ falling water tanks, plywood becoming ripped loose from the roof trusses, siding buckling and cracking above the door and in the same area on the opposite sideโฆ then more importantly there were the unexplained sticking doors that needed the jaws of life to get open, or just wait a half hour and it would open like nothing was wrong, to the annual door replacement because they were bent too bad to reinstallโฆ all caused by the weakness in the impressive looking Dexter frameโฆ
Talk is cheap on the internet. Yours is cheaper than most. I'll trust my assessment of structural design of my travel trailer frame. The frame of a travel trailer is one part of a system. The floor, walls and roof all add or subtract to the strength of the frame. The processing and the shipment of frame also have lots to do with quality of the final product. Sorry about the problems that you have had, but I doubt you even understand the root cause of the issues.
MM49
First you can not intimidate me with your cheap talk cheap shot, on the internet or anywhere elseโฆ
I sorry but I understand very well the root cause of the issuesโฆ the problem is that Sunnybrook didnโt have a good understanding of the root problemโฆ in 4 attempts to cure the problem at the factory they failedโฆ not for not tryingโฆ but then they tried to deny ever hearing of the problems they had years after I dumped mineโฆ
After spending many weeks at the plant and them spending thousands of dollars while the siding was stripped and replaced annually, 3 doors replaced at the factory that were too bad to reinstall, replacing a fresh water tank that fell out on the highway. Another trip to the factory to have 2 sheets of ruined plywood on the roof replacedโฆ seeing others at the plant for the same and similar problems each time(when they did very few on site repairs there), the many and continual post here about cracking and the buckling of siding above the door and near the roof line, and seeing others in CG and rest stops and fuel stops with signs of similar things, I think I know more than enough about itโฆ
Just some post made on RV.net alone not counting dozens of reports on Sunnybrook having problems with over flexing frames for many yearsโฆ
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maybe something to look out for, is some of these units developed a crack in the siding above the door frame. It's supposedly a door frame support problem caused by flex. I know of another 298 BH here in town which cracked just like ours '08 that we bought new in late '07
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I just posted on another thread that I am taking mine to the factory in April to have the cracked siding repaired/replaced '08 that we bought in early '09.
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How does this happen? I would not have believed that aluminum siding would tear like that. It is above the hinge side of the door, and it is under the rolled up awning, Trailer is a '95 Sunnybrook.
Love my mass produced, entry level, built by Lazy American Workers, Hornet
