Don't Repair!!!

Recently the wife and I decided to take our Pod for the first trip of this year down to the SC coast. Before we left when de-winterizing the camper I had a serious leak from the shower drain. So not wanting to scratch our reservations and canceling the trip I did the next best thing possible which was make a "patch" repair myself with silicon calk to get by and figured I'd get it taken care when I got home. Well we made it home with no more leaks in the shower but we did have a control board on the refrigerator go out. Took it into the repair shop and they took photos of all the damage and sent it into FR to get authorization to cover repairs under warranty. Found out today the refrigerator will be covered but the shower drain repair will not because I used silicon calk to stem the leak!!! Now to my thinking this is total (you know what) and totally unacceptable I'm not sure how to proceed? Any idea's please speak up!!! I'd hate to think is if you own a FR product the moral of the story is don't try to make any repairs yourself in order to get by until you can get into a service shop. 

Mike,
Your right that an honest debate and compromise I would think is the best way to proceed. Which is why I wrote the appointed contact person for the service department for R-Pods with FR. Asking for her to direct my email to the appropriate person, if its not her, and then stating my case and asking for a resolution. If I don't receive a phone call or email by Friday my next step is calling to complain. To my thinking this is total C.S. (you can put the appropriate words to these initials) on FR part and a total dodge to avoid any responsibility on their part to pay on an obvious factory defect. A defect that in fact has been to the dealer service shop before and never fixed, hence why I took it to a highly rated independent RV service shop. Which on a side note also show you can get warranty service at not just your dealers service shop only.

Good news story.