Broken weld and great customer service

[offtohavasu]

Anyone who's done the LCI tour, are the frames welded by human or machine?

[WhittleBurner]

According to the Tech (Mel) who worked on ours, the welds are by man not machine. He just transfered down to FL from IN a week before our call so I think he's familiar with the operation.

[offtohavasu]

Wonder where they're getting their steel from.

[WhittleBurner]

Curtis - I've been following another user on the FB page. He apparently has a major frame failure due to a weld behind one of the walls. The aluminum welds are now breaking and the fiberglass has cracked the length of the wall. He just got it to the GDRV shop in Middlebury last night. He's thinking that the work might be so extensive to fix it that they may have to total it too.

If it's not fixable they should give him a new one for what ever the pay off is.

[Canyonlight]

Curtis - I've been following another user on the FB page. He apparently has a major frame failure due to a weld behind one of the walls. The aluminum welds are now breaking and the fiberglass has cracked the length of the wall. He just got it to the GDRV shop in Middlebury last night. He's thinking that the work might be so extensive to fix it that they may have to total it too.

Jim- what year and model ?

Dan

[J&G garage]

Welcome to the separated spring hanger club. It's a little scary but an easy fix. According to our insurance it's not uncommon. LCI was very good when our spring hanger broke. We had spent an entire morning looking for a mobile welder with no success. Ten minutes after contacting LCI a welder was calling us and they fixed it short order. BTW, we towed probably 1000 miles with the hanger broken off and it's barely noticeable. Worse symptom was sensitivity to cross winds. But other than that it towed pretty well.

[TucsonJim]

Jim- what year and model ?

Dan

Dan - It's a new 374. He has it at the GDRV facility right now for assessment. Here's a copy of one of the many posts about the damage that has been found.



Jim

[Canyonlight]

Thanks, Jim. That's and interesting picture.......looks like the RV is resting right on the pickup box.......wonder if the RV got dropped on the P/U box someway to stress/damage the front frame area.

Dan

[orbiker]

Thanks, Jim. That's and interesting picture.......looks like the RV is resting right on the pickup box.......wonder if the RV got dropped on the P/U box someway to stress/damage the front frame area.

Dan

Barry has a picture of a weld on part of the frame. The weld is cracked right down the middle. I'm not a welder, but I thought the weld was supposed to be the strongest part if done correctly.

[TucsonJim]

Dan - I think that's just an optical illusion. Other photos don't show that. Probably just the angle of the camera.

JIm