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    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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Posts: 4514 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Posts: 9059 		Direct Link To This Post 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.
Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Posts: 1807 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Posts: 4514 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 Nov 2015 at 3:48pm
Yup, prior planning prevents piss poor performs!! or a geyser!
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Posts: 3239 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 6:41pm
I know of two '10's that had faucet failures.
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Posts: 9059 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Mar 2016 at 9:07pm
mine was a '10.  Same faucet as the one shown in the pic.
Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Posts: 4514 		Direct Link To This Post 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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Posts: 270 		Direct Link To This Post 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. LOL
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