purchased R Pod in February from a dealer in Green Bay WI and dragged it home to the far east side of Michigan, near the Blue Water Bridge. It's been in storage, so last weekend I backed it in the driveway so the wife could give the Pod a "deep clean" as she likes to call it. My wife walks out of the garage with rubber gloves and bucket in tow and says, "why's the trailer leaning so much"? This was my introduction to the outrigger debacle. Thank goodness for Google and You Tube. I placed four calls to Forest River looking for outriggers, with no response. I then called a local R Pod dealer trying to find outriggers. He informed me that he has two orders from February waiting to be filled from FR and says they're on back order. He suggested trying to find a shop that could fabricate them. A local shop said they could make them and asked me to draw a sketch with the measurements and they would put a price together for me. After work that day, as I was under the Pod taking measurements Forest River called back.  I told her I was looking for outriggers. She said they do have some in stock but asked if I had any pictures showing the problem and if the floor was sagging inside. I told her yes and yes and that it looked like there were signs of water penetration at the wall and floor, next to the cubby under the fridge. She said, "it sounds like we may have to have you bring your trailer in so we can take care of this". I asked her if FR was trying to make things right with this problem, and she said, yes. She asked me to email her with pictures and she would get back with me. As I am typing this, FR emailed me asking for the last seven numbers of my VIN. I really hope they can fix the problem. Just thought this info may help others.

I'll keep you posted

We got a set of outriggers for our 179 from this company. They shipped them to us in a few days:

Innovative Machine & Supply 

Phone 

          636-600-1171 

          636-600-1181 

Address 

          345 Sun Valley Cir Fenton, MO 63026-4693

Links 

https://www.innomach.com Notes 

I have he same problem with my 2019 190.

Who at FR did you talk to?  Tina?

From what I am told expect this to take year to get resolved.

Mind if I ask what the price was?

Originally posted by GlueGuy Hi CM, We got a set of outriggers for our 179 from this company. Innovative Machine & Supply

Originally posted by PilotPodder I did a bunch of research on this issue last fall before fixing my 2017 179. Not a few people commented on the video fix I posted on YT. The feedback seems that this is somewhat isolated to 2016-2019 models.

Oh yeah I saw your video when looking for a solution to another issue and then started looking at mine b/c that might explain some oddities that I was seeing in my unit(for example the driver side fender has always been lower and scraping the tire).  I emailed FR using your form letter.  I was however told that the brackets where only preventative.  They sent me to the warranty department which asked for pics which I sent.  I was told they would get back to me once they had a plan in place.  I had to ask multiple times how long it would take to hear back.  Was eventually told 6-8 weeks after also emailing my dealer and RPOD on facebook. 

I'd be glad if they take it back to the factory and fix it...

When did you start your process and was that a conversation with Tina regarding the 6-8 weeks, and was the timeline for "we'll get back with you" or what?  Please keep me in the loop.

You also mentioned the brackets (outriggers?) were only preventative. Did FR say what else needs to be done?

I also am hoping they take mine back to FR and fix it

I think we paid around $17 or $18 each. I placed 4; one each under the rollers under the slide out. Shipping, tax, title and dealer prep came to a bit over $90 (IIRC).

I started about 2 weeks ago.  6-8 weeks from when they get the info that they want until they formulate the plan.  I have been told by several people not to expect the fix to happen anytime soon...

I don't know what the plan will be.  Since it was so difficult to get a time-frame I figured I had better not ask...  I am not sure what else you can do other than jack the floor up and put more support under it.  Unless they plan to replace the entire floor which seems unlikely.

I am wondering if John and others posted videos and photos of this problem and then people started checking and complaining to FR and they realized they had a much bigger problem than they realized?

Originally posted by Cookie Man   Please keep me in the loop.

I'll keep you posted.

Hey Glue Guy,

I just stumbled across this post and have a question for you.  Did you provide spec's for them to create the outriggers or was it something that they already had spec's for and you just had to order?  How long ago did you get the?  

Since I'm going to be in the Fenton, MO area in a couple of months was thinking I could maybe order and pick them up and save some $$.  

TIA.

We ordered them back in February. They told me via email that they were making outriggers for both the 179 and 180. I suggest you call them at 636-600-1171 to find out if they can accommodate you.

Thanks for the information!

Today, 4/14/2023, the package containing the 6 outriggers arrived!

I plan to install these myself, per the helpful instructions posted by John Marucci in this video:

https://youtu.be/5R5QQJeXoB4 - https://youtu.be/5R5QQJeXoB4

I'll post my results here when done.