Slide out opening during travel

[cldfire]

So I have a 2024 GD solitude 310 GK. It has about 10k miles on it.

The dinette slide (door side) creeps open while I am pulling it down the road.

Every 3 hours I stop and have to slide it back in.

it is not much (see photos) but I think it is getting worse.

It started doing this after the dealer had to replace the front left landing gear that had a leak.

It is back at the dealer and they are saying there is no air in the line.

Anyone have any ideas? The dealer does not seem to know the cause.

 

[coglesby]

call Lippert when you have some time to spend on the phone with them and they’ll help you diagnose. You most likely have a valve or slide cylinder bypassing.

Monday - Friday: 8AM - 5:30PM (EST)
432-LIPPERT (432-547-7378)

 

[Hoopy Frood]

You really need to find a new repair place. There's no way the shop shouldn't be able to diagnose, and repair the problem.

 

[Scott'n'Wendy]

As coglesby says. You have a cylinder or valve leaking by.
And you need to find a better dealer.

 

[cldfire]

I am in California (yea I know you don’t have to say it) and it is one of the major dealers that sell Grand Design.

 

[sgprice]

I had the same thing happen on our 376THS Momentum. The valve in the hydraulic slide cylinder had failed. Do not bother trying to have it rebuilt (tried that...). You can get a new one from Amazon for a couple of hundred and have a tech replace it. So, assuming your dinette slide is hydraulic this it probably the fix.

Other item to check is the valve on top of your door side landing gear. But I'm betting it's the cylinder on the slide

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[cldfire]

So final answer, after dropping the belly pan and the dealer speaking with Lippert was that there was air in the line (wait dealer said they checked that before dropping the belly).

When the other location replaced the front landing gear, they did not bleed it properly.

The location in Sacramento is paying for all the labor and cost of this repair to the shop in Rippon.

Side note the counter had collapsed (yes only 2 screws in each end hold it on) and is fixed with 4 screws now. (I will be coming up with a better fix myself). The screws had broken.

And the refrigerator had come loose. The 2 x 4 it attaches to was loose.

I know things move a lot when we travel down the roads, but build quality seems a little lacking.

Yes this unit is a 2024.

 

[Hoopy Frood]

I had always thought these hydraulic systems were self bleeding. I know when I replace several lines, and had one break, I had no issues simply hooking the lines back up and cycling the system a few times.