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    Posted: 23 Nov 2016 at 8:28pm
Sadly I tried to back into our driveway in the dark tonight and had a slight run with the mailbox.  I have done so well maneuvering the rpod up to this point darn it.  Anyway, I scraped up several of decals on the side of the rpod pretty nicely.  It looks like the scraped areas can be repaired by replacing the decals.  I have a 2016 180.  Is it fairly easy to get side decals for this year/model?  I am so upset right now and it has impacted my tone for my Thansgiving camping trip. SmileLOLWink  Incidentally the mailbox took it far worse!
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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 8:03am
FR has them.. the only decals they are out of at this point that I know of are some of the decals for the first generation "rings pods". 
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Posts: 4517 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24 Nov 2016 at 9:00am
Ditto, they are reasonably priced and can be replaced fairly easy
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Do you suggest contacting FR directly to purchase the decals.  Honestly I spoke to dealer about this and they gave me the feeling it was quite difficult to replace them.  Perhaps I don't have the right place to have the replacement work done.  Would this be something and autonomy shop could do?
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ABOVE. Auto body shop could do
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If you own a hair dryer, and some goo gone, you can do it. Yes contact FR directly.

surveyorparts@forestriverinc.com

The phone numbers are 574-642-3119 Ext 217 or 209
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Posts: 4517 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Dec 2016 at 5:32am
Dtto! We had to get thm for our 2010 171.
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Jewel: Also, many of today's sign companies do major graphics on vehicles, (sometimes full wraps advertising a product....you've seen them on the road) Sign companies are extremely good & fast at applying these large-scale graphics. 

One idea is to find the sign shop nearest you that does "partial & full vehicle wraps." You could then swing by with a good photo of your R-Pod and get an estimate for applying the decal that came from Forest River. (I was glad to read from Furpod that FR has them reasonably priced).

The sign shop option may be a more affordable labor cost vs.n the estimate you might get from a body shop (which is used to doing more of the pin striping after a panel is repaired). Also sign shops have all the special plastic tools and solvents to efficiently remove portions of the scraped up decal, too. 

Finally, this sign shop might be a good source to incorporate a special decal with your name, or the Pod's name, or something else to personalize your Pod at the same time. This way, you take a "lemon day" and create a little something extra to smile about as you move on.

And now, I will share my screw-up moment with our R-Pod. Construction zone: entered it on a gravel road with sharp gravel pieces, running parallel to a freshly paved lane. Vehicles moving through with me were using both choices to get through the zone; its just that it was now early afternoon and the newly paved road was not fully cured, and was beginning to heat up.

I chose "the wrong road" for awhile, until I observed other cars ahead bailing back off the paved road to the gravel one, so I followed. When we stopped for lunch in the pines by a river, my wife liesurely enjoys her lunch by the sound of the tumbling waters, while I take the hour scooting around on a stool with Goo-Gone and a rag removing tar spatters on the lower 8" perimeter of the Pod. (I was glad I was getting the tar spatters off when fresh, and not "baked on.") Lotta work, sore hands.

Lesson learned for me.

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Posts: 1002 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Dec 2016 at 8:18pm
Jewel: Maybe you need this.



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Posts: 1108 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09 Dec 2016 at 8:41pm
Dang Sonny! Those are bright! Do you have them wired to come on the backup "reverse" circuit? Or did you run them to a separate switch???
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