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JohnBG View Drop Down
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    Posted: 10 Aug 2015 at 12:13pm
Yikes! That aint good...
2010 R-Pod RP-171
2010 Honda Ridgeline TV
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Jay in Maryland View Drop Down
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I recently finished a 6 week maiden voyage from MD through the west. On our last day driving east, as we left the campground I experienced a scary malfunction -the slide out came out while i was driving. First time I thought human error (I did not see it coming out), but within 10 minutes it came out again. I pulled the slide motor fuse out to get home. 

Recently I tracked the problem to the switch. I removed the switch face plate screws and pulled it slightly out so it could wiggle when thumped, then I observed my slide out start out/in just by thumbing the side of the switch with my finger nail -That is I was thumping the plastic face plate an inch or more away from the actual button!

The good news is installing a new switch is a relatively easy fix, the bad news is what this says about quality (of a brand new 2015 179) to discover such a potentially catastrophic  failure (think of on coming traffic). I would have expected this switch to be bullet proof in terms of activating the slide out while your bouncing down the road. 

I was at least lucky this occurred on the last day of a long trip.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this kind of malfunction to be expected in some units,  -is my frustration here an issue of unrealistic newbie expectations about quality?
Jay
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