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Subzilla
Senior Member Joined: 23 Jan 2017 Location: Concord, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 302 |
Topic: Bathroom walls deforming Posted: 20 Jul 2017 at 12:44pm |
My email request to FR: Purchased our 179
this past March and love it. I'm an RPOD-Owners Forum member and just started
seeing posts about shower wall deformation and responses that attribute it to
heat. Sure enough, I checked mine yesterday with 90 degrees here in Carolina
and saw very wavy shower walls and the edge of one buckling out enough I could
see under it. I checked this morning with 70 degrees and walls had gone back to
almost normal...still a little waviness. I have some concerns about the long
term impacts to the caulking between the 2 panels and uneven expansion. And to
the adhesive method under the panels. You will soon be getting more inquiries
about this since I understand the 179 (and other models?) are now using a new,
different shower material. Has there been any discussion/resolution about this?
Their reply: Good Afternoon Mark, I do apologize that you are experiencing these issues, but we have not had complaints about this issue. I ran your vin number and it looks like this unit was manufactured in February of this year, we have not made any changes to the R-Pod shower surrounds since your unit was manufactured. Not much of an answer...my reply: Thanks for the response. I realize you haven’t made
changes since February but the shower surrounds are different from before
then. Any thoughts on the problem? |
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Mark
Concord, NC 2017 RP 179 "Podzilla" 2011 Silverado 1500 4X4 |
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PilotPodder
Senior Member Joined: 04 May 2016 Location: Portage, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 305 |
Posted: 20 Jul 2017 at 1:02pm |
Maybe send them a link to the forum thread where a few of us mention this?
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Podizzi
Newbie Joined: 30 Jun 2017 Location: Phoenix, AZ Online Status: Offline Posts: 39 |
Posted: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:43pm |
Took my pod to Tom’s Camperland in Mesa, AZ and they added a piece of trim also like Dirt Road Warrior. Seems to have fixed problem but we will see what 110 degree temps do to it next summer.
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Podizzi
2017 rpod 179 2016 Toyota Sequoia Phoenix, AZ |
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PodBarb
Groupie Joined: 02 Oct 2017 Location: San Jose CA Online Status: Offline Posts: 51 |
Posted: 02 Oct 2017 at 8:19pm |
New to this, but recall reading that the slight bulge at the bottom left at entry is normal to allow condensation to evaporate. It does seem that a continuing expansion suggest that may not have been true, although the surround is just attached at the punch-pin type things. Would love to hear of a fix if needed. Or maybe live with it or replace with something better....
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