Take care of your faucet handles! |
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LisaWill22
Newbie Joined: 06 Jun 2015 Location: Olympia Online Status: Offline Posts: 17 |
Topic: Take care of your faucet handles! Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 5:11pm |
Here's my nice new faucet that I had to order from Forest River after the plastic handles broke on my old one. I highly recommend NOT using the handles to turn the water on and off but rather to clasp the base lower down instead. It takes a little getting used to, but will save you having to order a whole new faucet when the handles break!
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Leo B
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4517 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 5:15pm |
Ditto, we had to replace our faucet handles after having our (new) trailer for 4 months.
They are not really durable.
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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 20 Nov 2015 at 6:57pm |
The hot water handle broke on mine and I glued it back on - if it broke again I would have replaced it with a household faucet from the local orange or blue hardware store. Better quality.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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kymooses
Senior Member Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Location: Louisville, Ky Online Status: Offline Posts: 1807 |
Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 11:41am |
I put in a replacement faucet from my local home store after like my second season. Takes literally about 5 minutes to unscrew the hot and cold lines life up the old faucet, drop the new one in and screw the lines back on.
The holes are standard size to pretty much any faucet shape color or design you'd find at your local home store so long as you go with a 2 faucet variety. After a friend had his turn into a geyser in his Pod, I figured I'd head this problem off at the pass.
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Leo B
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4517 |
Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 3:48pm |
Yup, prior planning prevents piss poor performs!! or a geyser!
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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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jato
Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3255 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 3:32pm |
Hmm, wondering if the handles were a higher grade plastic on the older models? We haven't had any issues (yet) with ours and it's used quite a bit.
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 6:41pm |
I know of two '10's that had faucet failures.
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 9:07pm |
mine was a '10. Same faucet as the one shown in the pic.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Leo B
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 13 Jan 2012 Location: Lyndonville, VT Online Status: Offline Posts: 4517 |
Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 9:43pm |
Our 171 was a 10 and we never had a problem with those. Our 2015 179, one handle broke the second trip our.
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Leo & Melissa Bachand
2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
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Retroactive
Senior Member Joined: 15 Mar 2016 Location: Bolton, MA Online Status: Offline Posts: 270 |
Posted: 22 Mar 2016 at 9:59am |
Thanks for this thread. I'll keep a close eye on the faucet. A kitchen faucet breaking on the one rainy day we actually we need it, might be one of the few things that could actually send the wife into a rage.
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