Apr 082011
I picked up the old trailer from the shop today and brought it home to start stripping out all the things I want to install in the new one. The main items to remove is the 32" LCD TV and swing arm mount plus the inverter that changes 12v to 110v and batteries. They fixed the rear framing and also found a problem with the slide. I thought that I heard some strange noises when I pulled in the slide but just figured it was normal.... it wasn't.
A piece of the wear strip had come loose. The wear strip is what the slide moves over as it is retracted into the trailer for travel or storage. The real problem with fixing this is that they have to over extend the slide to get to the wear strip and to do this they have to remove all of the inside trim around the slide and then crank it out further then normal. Luckily nothing was damaged when the wear strip came loose and all they had to do was screw it back into place. Bad part was the 6 hours of labor at $116 per!
Total bill to fix the frame and the wear strip was $1200 and insurance paid for $500 of the frame damage. Oh well, at least it'll be all fixed up for whoever buys it. This weekend is suppose to be warm so hopefully I can get all the accessories removed from the old trailer so I can take it over to B's house to sale.