Hello everyone, it’s Jason again with MyRVResource.com. It’s like the Yellow Pages for RV service providers. Find what you need, where you need it, and when you need it right there, all in one place.
Today I’m here coming to you again with your Weekly One Reason To Get An RV Inspection. So I’m gonna talk about two things. Typically when I pull up to do an RV inspection, probably 9 out of 10 times, I see an issue with the RV before I even get out of my truck and that happened today.
Now, this is a brand new 2022. RV. It was purchased on July 5th. Today is August 1st. The customer, within a couple of weeks, started seeing a bunch of small little issues and got a recall notice and decided, you know, we didn’t get the inspection before we purchased. Now we better get it done so that we can get the warranty work done all in one shot. So they had a list of about 10 things, and I’m about to show you isn’t one of those ten things.
It is an issue that, if not corrected, could cause water to get inside the RV. So what I’m going to do is switch the camera around. I am at this lovely KOA Palm Harbor, FL. We are going to look at the front window or some manufacturers call it the windshield. This is from my view of the truck. You can see it right there in the middle of the screen. That there is a gap in the sealant under that window.
RV Window Sealant Issues Can Cause Water Damage
Now we’re going to go up closer to it and we’re going to look around the whole window. Because it’s not just that one little spot I was showing you. From the truck, you can see that the sealant isn’t good around the window. Now we’re gonna go up this side here and we just see the sealant’s not properly installed. I’m gonna move my ladder here and we’re going to go up the other side. You can see a pretty good seal right here, but then all of a sudden, man, look at that. Look at those gaps in that sealant. This window is barely even sealed all the way around. So that window is not properly sealed. You’re not going to see the damage till it’s too late and you have serious water damage.
If you’re living in the RV like these folks, you may have to take the RV and drop it off for a month or two, then you got to pay for a hotel room while you’re waiting for the repairs to be done. Nobody wants that.
Propane Recall On RV Quick-Release Connection
Now, the other thing that’s going on with the recall. We at MyRVResource.com put out a blog post on May 11th about this issue and it is the propane quick-release connection. I’m going to show you one right here. That connection has a manufacturer recall on them and they were used on a bunch of different RVs. So, I don’t know if the dealership knew. They should have gotten the bulletin and should have just replaced it before they purchased it, but they didn’t. You know it’s a three or $4 part and it takes 5 minutes to Install a new one and do a propane leak test to make sure nothing’s leaking. It’s good to go. So really, it should have been done by them.
They got the notification a couple of weeks after they purchased this on July 5th, and now it’s August 1st, they’re going to be sending it back into the shop next week to get their warranty work done. That’s on the list of things, but we also found the sealant on the front window, windshield, whatever you want to call it and that’s probably one of 15 things I’ve found so far that wasn’t on their list. They’re going to be able to get taken care of by the dealership in one shot and not have to take it back for a while, hopefully.
I’m Jason with MyRVResource.com. It’s like the Yellow Pages for your RV service providers. Find what you need, where you need it when you need it all over the country. And this was my Weekly One Reason To Get An RV Inspection. Have a nice day.
