RoamingHadleys
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To My Fellow GD Owners:
My wife and I have been full-time RVing in our 2021 Imagine 2970RL for the past 2+ years. I have leaned on you all in the GD forum several times in the past for troubleshooting, replacement parts #'s, hacks, etc. and wanted to contribute/share our most recent problem and incident also brought to GD's attention.
On Saturday, we woke up to the sound of running water flooding our sealed underbelly. The underbelly cover bursted before we got a chance to shut the water off causing several gallons of filtered water to spill out on the ground. The weight of the water tore the cover the entire width of RV and down both sides. After waiting for the site to dry, we determined that a 3/4" pvc water hose was improperly clamped to 1/2" pex tee fitting going up to the bathroom and broke loose from pressure/bad connection. How this was allowed and passed inspection by GD is truly baffling and frustrating. I brought to their attention via email yesterday and awaiting their response.
To fix the plumbing issue, I bought a 3/4" to 1/2" coupler reducer and used small section of 1/2" pex from the tee to coupler to make the new connection. There was not enough slack in the pex lines to be able to swap out the tee with the correct fitting.
To temporarily fix the underbelly cover, I unscrewed the existing self tap screws/washers from where the cover had torn away from on the sides. I was able reuse most of the same screws to reinstall the cover offsetting about 4 inches from the previous holesets. For the tear across the width, I patched with butyl tape to temp close the gap and order specialty tape off Amazon designed to adhere to the underbelly cover material.
Hope this information helps for those who want to be on the lookout for same design flaw from the factory or also allow anyone to drop a comment about their experience in the matter.
My wife and I have been full-time RVing in our 2021 Imagine 2970RL for the past 2+ years. I have leaned on you all in the GD forum several times in the past for troubleshooting, replacement parts #'s, hacks, etc. and wanted to contribute/share our most recent problem and incident also brought to GD's attention.
On Saturday, we woke up to the sound of running water flooding our sealed underbelly. The underbelly cover bursted before we got a chance to shut the water off causing several gallons of filtered water to spill out on the ground. The weight of the water tore the cover the entire width of RV and down both sides. After waiting for the site to dry, we determined that a 3/4" pvc water hose was improperly clamped to 1/2" pex tee fitting going up to the bathroom and broke loose from pressure/bad connection. How this was allowed and passed inspection by GD is truly baffling and frustrating. I brought to their attention via email yesterday and awaiting their response.
To fix the plumbing issue, I bought a 3/4" to 1/2" coupler reducer and used small section of 1/2" pex from the tee to coupler to make the new connection. There was not enough slack in the pex lines to be able to swap out the tee with the correct fitting.
To temporarily fix the underbelly cover, I unscrewed the existing self tap screws/washers from where the cover had torn away from on the sides. I was able reuse most of the same screws to reinstall the cover offsetting about 4 inches from the previous holesets. For the tear across the width, I patched with butyl tape to temp close the gap and order specialty tape off Amazon designed to adhere to the underbelly cover material.
Hope this information helps for those who want to be on the lookout for same design flaw from the factory or also allow anyone to drop a comment about their experience in the matter.
