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Slide roof started leaking
Hi All,
This Thanksgiving it rained on Wednesday. We were staying in the bus with the slides out. We were both woken up by water dripping on our faces. The water was dripping off the back of the cabinets above the bed. We put in the slide and wated a bit with towels under there and it stopped leaking. (PHEW)
The next day, I used the handy ladder in the bus to go to the top to see what was going on. It was weird to me that the water appeared to come from very close to the window…. not where the slide seal would be. And, up there it became clear why… the sheet metal has come unglued near the outer part of the slide. Very close to the edge where the windows are. You could slide a tounge depressor in there.
I suppose this is (or is like) the delamination problem… but for the slide roof piece… not the siding.
Anyway… question is, is Prevost in Mira Loma, or Marathon in Coburg the place to go? I’m about 7 hours from either… but of course, one is north and the other is South.
OR – do I need to make the trek somewhere else? What’s the gang thinking?
I noticed too, that the bedroom slide had a blue roof (that matches the bus) and the salon slide had a white roof. Implying to me that the salon slide was replaced at some point. There are some old water stains in the salon… but it doesn’t leak. And it didin’t on this trip… just the bedroom slide did.
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Know nothing about the XLs but you probably have drains on the window side of your slides like we do on the H… they can very easily get stopped up with dirt and debris.. if you look underneath the slide you can see the drain holes… take a water hose and check if they are draining properly… good to flush them out anyway. Easy fix if that’s the problem.
Cheers, Diane
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A Prevost service center is probably more experienced in repairing slide leaks. While you’re there it would be a good idea to have them lay a straight edge over both of the slide’s top to check that the top has not bowed downward in the center. This will allow water to enter the coach between the slide top and the seal. This is more apt to happen on the wider salon slide than the bedroom slide. The slide seal is usually pressurized at 10 to 12 PSI. 12PSI X 168″ = 2,016 pounds of downward force on the top of the salon slide. Prevost has a “fix” kit that is installed to give the top more structural strength.
Drain holes in the bottom of the slide may be something that Prevost added at the factory on later models but usually they are evidence of a field repair to drain water that has accumulated in the slide’s bottom floor tray.
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Marathon did not use Prevost slides exclusively so before heading to Prevost check to be sure it was not made by another manufacturer.
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Early in my 3 year Prevost career, I parked on uneven ground where I could not get the coach level. The slides were out at a higher angle slanted toward the coach and of course it rained overnight. For better or worse, most of the water got trapped inside the ceiling above the couch. I was able to unscrew a ceiling section and the water came flowing into a bucket.
Lessons learned.
1. Make sure the coach is level.
2. If not, keep the slide side lower so the rain drains to the ground and not toward the coach.
3. Check the weather report.
4. If need be, keep the slides in during heavy rain.
5. Like Nancy, I prefer a Prevost with slides, so there is always a way to keep the rain from running into the coach.
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5. Like Nancy, I prefer a Prevost with slides, so there is always a way to keep the rain from running into the coach.
Watch for an increase in your dues…..Tom will need it to help finance the next last coach with slides…..
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As a group effort to insure Nancy gets her coach with slides, and to insure Tom has no information to use as an excuse to not buy slides all further discussions of issues with slides are banned from this site.
Violators of course will see a huge increase in dues, and will be required to move back to a 40 foot non-slide coach.
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My slides haven’t leaked. Jimmy – I got my eye on you…
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Why is a 40ft non slide coach “moving back”?
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I’m right there with you Tom!
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Dan, until you have had the opportunity to have 5 more feet you will not appreciate how the personality of the coach will change. We had our 40 footer for 15 years and never considered a larger coach. Ever.
Then when we had the fire in that coach and bought a non-slide 45 footer we were in awe of the extra room. For a single person I am sure 40 feet is ample, but my wife would never ever allow me to give up some of the features that extra 5 feet provide. Slides are also nice, but with slides you get more room to move around, but at the expense of storage.
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Jon,
Allright then – guess its time to move up 😉
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Being Marathon 827, the slides are from Prevost. HWH was used in H3-45 for 2003 and the five forty footers XLIIs single slides
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thanks for all the info – I’m going to call Prevost in Mira Loma and setup and appt.
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