Slide-Out Issues (and solutions)
In December of 2021 we purchased a new 2022 Thor Chateau 25V Class C RV from Camping World in Dover, Florida (near Tampa.) We have had the RV for about 18 months, and have put 11,500 miles on it as of this writing. We had a laundry list of ten things that needed to be corrected upon taking delivery. After nearly a year of back-and-forth with the dealer and with Thor, all issues have been satisfactorily resolved. What that means is Thor supplied a bunch of parts and I did all the mechanical and repair work myself. The dealer was useless. Recently I have been noticing the slide was not fully closing on one of the lower slide corners. The top of the slide pulled into the body of the RV as expected, but the bottom rear corner was not pulling in flush, as it did when new. I chalked it up to a slight misalignment and hoped it would self-correct after the next in-and-out cycle of the slide. Every time we opened the slide the problem got worse. It went from a quarter-inch gap to a half-inc