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Re: Travel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
covered wagon wrote: Lwiddis wrote: What roof maintenance have you completed in the last two years? Any pictures of the roof or maintenance? RVing since 1978 and I have never seen an RV roof on the side of the road. What do these items have to do with the RV’s roof? “had to replace tires, window seals all shrunk, leak in the front; heater was broke and had to replace the circuit board, leaf spring cracked and had to be replaced, now have a window leak)” It shows a general lack of workmanship on every level, that's what! And is a good thing to inform others. It doesn't fly off as in resting on the side of the hwy. As soon as its lifting up gets to the A/C unit its held up to that point. The roof comes off because of improper install of the adhesive before rolling out and compressing into place. We have maintenanced the camper and actually just got done paying for an entire reseal two months ago, where the mechanic found that the moulding didn't feel particularly secure likely becuase of how they put these things together so he even added additional screws to secure further. The other items mentioned were all things that should not happen the third season with a brand new camper, it will catch up with these manufacturers eventually that they are putting these things together like garbage. I honestly wish that we would have looked harder to find a pre-2015 model in the floorplan we wanted becuase it seems since the camper boom beyond at that time they are made like garbage just to get more out the door, but with my husband being a professional auto mechanic for the past few years we wanted to buy something new that we could keep new for years to come, but i guess that isn't a reality with campers these days.712Views0likes0CommentsRe: Travel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
Update: our insurance adjuster did come out the other day, he seemed a bit skeptical because there was no obvious sign of puncture but covered it under comprehensive, THANK GOD. Thanks everyone for your advice these forums are great, just wish campers were made a bit sturdier but we keep buying them.711Views0likes0CommentsRe: Travel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
I can’t figure out how to reply to a specific post but I’m not certain if they got it from a show or not, it seems over the past few years these things are being made more and more carelessly with there record breaking sales. What’s crazy is we just had our mechanic up on the roof to reseal everything before we started this season a month ago, and we double checked all of his work and everything was sealed and fine looking before we left, he even notices places where they missed putting screws in at the factory in the front and fixed that.317Views0likes0CommentsRe: Travel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
I am going to call them first thing Monday to see, I read in the owners guide that they cover roofing three years (we are at 3 years 2 months) but it did have a caveat that they wouldn’t cover the EPDM material, which is in theory what ripped off. Wish us luck, after putting $1,000 into this thing already it was really upsetting to have this happen, I guess the only positive is that with being due with baby number 2 in a month we didn’t have other trips scheduled this year.318Views0likes0CommentsTravel Trailer Rubber Roof Blew Off
We have a 2018 Heartland Trail Runner 34SLE. Coming home this weekend the rubber roofing material blew off all the way back to the air conditioner and even ripped off the antenna! Has anyone ever heard of this?? I tried calling the dealer about this and the other issues we have had after only three years with the camper (had to replace tires, window seals all shrunk, leak in the front; heater was broke and had to replace the circuit board, leaf spring cracked and had to be replaced, now have a window leak) but they said that there is nothing they can do because it is out of warranty and have to call Heartland. I just can’t comprehend why the roof would blow off after only three years, we even sealed everything this spring! The dealer said it would be $6-8k to repair I was just so floored.9.6KViews0likes30Comments
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