Bob&Patty
Founders of SoCal Chapter
This is not a rant at HL or Lippert. The Lippert frame issues on older 1621HD frames finally bit us. It is in the shop now with the filon and front cap removed. It has several broken welds and both front corners of the frame the body sits on has torn away from each other. The shop called me today and had me go to look at the damage. The front wall of the closet is buckled and of course all the frame damage. They hooked up their forklift and showed me how much the pinbox flexed when lifting the Horn. 5" is a tad much so, now I know why it rode and pulled bad.
It is now being fixed at my and the insurance companies expence. Sad but true. The cost is a little north of $4K with with our deductable to pay. I paid $200 for new Mor/Ryde #5 rubber spring 2 years back thinking the rubber spring was bad and installed myself. Didn't help....so I guess the frame failure has been going on for sometime little by little.
I'm glad I finally had it looked in to but only because the front filon was breaking at the corners. This happened on a 1K trip earlier this year. I am happy it did not break completely on that trip. That would have been a big mess. Trailer broken and the bed sides of the truck smashed. Not happy with Lippert right now. Maybe better engineering is in order.
My message is...if something does not look right....find out why before something bad happens.
It is now being fixed at my and the insurance companies expence. Sad but true. The cost is a little north of $4K with with our deductable to pay. I paid $200 for new Mor/Ryde #5 rubber spring 2 years back thinking the rubber spring was bad and installed myself. Didn't help....so I guess the frame failure has been going on for sometime little by little.
I'm glad I finally had it looked in to but only because the front filon was breaking at the corners. This happened on a 1K trip earlier this year. I am happy it did not break completely on that trip. That would have been a big mess. Trailer broken and the bed sides of the truck smashed. Not happy with Lippert right now. Maybe better engineering is in order.
My message is...if something does not look right....find out why before something bad happens.
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