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Post by vagov on Sept 23, 2018 19:48:26 GMT -5
Went camping this weekend at Ohioplyle State Park, all went well until we went to pack up, my wife pushed the button to close the Dinnette slide, when all of a sudden heard a loud clunk, seems that the frame work holding the metal roller inside seemed to break clean off, lucky for it closed before it decided to give out, after getting it home and better investagsting, found out that. The whole lumber assembly was held together with no more than a fewbraid nails, cut the nail heads off, and connected the frame. Back together with 2 Mending plates and 2 screwed in metal plates. Seems pretty solid, actually more solid than orginal manufactured.
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Post by Chuck on Sept 24, 2018 10:40:44 GMT -5
vagov I have replaced staples with screw in places that were starting to come apart to prevent a problem ... I have as well this past weekend put small aluminum backer plates on our fender screws do to the fact a couple had come loose ... The only thing holding the fender screws in is the thin sheet metal. thus there is no real meat for the screws to hold onto, now with a 1" x 1" eight inch backing plate I feel the self tapping screws will never come loose again or at least I hope not  Safe Travels Chuck |
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Post by CLF1209 on Sept 27, 2018 7:34:47 GMT -5
Went camping this weekend at Ohioplyle State Park, all went well until we went to pack up, my wife pushed the button to close the Dinnette slide, when all of a sudden heard a loud clunk, seems that the frame work holding the metal roller inside seemed to break clean off, lucky for it closed before it decided to give out, after getting it home and better investagsting, found out that. The whole lumber assembly was held together with no more than a fewbraid nails, cut the nail heads off, and connected the frame. Back together with 2 Mending plates and 2 screwed in metal plates. Seems pretty solid, actually more solid than orginal manufactured. Thinking of buying our first travel trailer. So it seems like the consensus of folks is that you need to be able to fix things yourself, because inevitably things break, due to the original manufacturer using minimum standards in construction. |
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Post by Chuck on Oct 6, 2018 12:39:28 GMT -5
CLF1209 With all MFG this seems to be the norm, Kz seems to be a little more better constructed but saying such they do use brads instead of screws in many place's again like the other trailer MFG's ...
They are all looking at the bottom line an how fast they can get trailers out the door do to market demand of such now days ... Like the old saying goes they faster you go the behind-er you get, in the case build quality suffers which is a bummer ...
You are correct on having to be a RV repairmen, just like boats it is an never ending job to keep them up, repair things that brake ... Even thoughts boats take a pounding in ruff sea's they do not travel for the most part 60mph for hundreds of miles at a time, thus things shack loose, come apart, brake an need fixed, we only hope it's not all the time ...
I have to say with well over lets say 12k miles now on a Kz 2017 5th wheel most all the stuff that has broke has been my fault Ugh !!!
Safe Travels
Chuck
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Post by Rv_newbie on Feb 23, 2019 14:50:17 GMT -5
We just purchased a used 2012 kz spree escape and noticed the exact same issue on our slide when we got it home. Could you possibly provide a picture of what your repair looks like?
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