Leaky Interior

[MLynch]

We've got a 2008 T40F and we've had leak issues on the full body slide out. After taking the RV on a long trip to the west coast and back, we cleaned the RV and put it in storage. A few weeks later, I lowered the jacks when taking it out of storage and water came pouring off the full body slide interior roof all over the interior of the RV. We had substantial damage, mold mushrooms, etc. Gulfstream initially wanted to deny the fix for "lack of maintenance," however, they eventually did the right thing and authorized the fix at the dealer. The full body slide-out started to creep out from the bottom and was not flush, leading us all to think that water leaked in the unit from the outside and simply accumulated on top of the slide when the slide was pulled in and the unit was parked.....seemed like a reasonable conclusion.

Since getting our rig back, we took a quick trip from South Florida to GA for a weekend and then we parked the RV again for a couple more weeks before squeezing in a long weekend trip with the kids this past weekend. When we pulled the RV out of storage after the GA trip, the carpet in the slide area was stained, some mushrooms were growing from the seams of the slide-out, and the floor was wet again. Oddly enough, there was no rain during the GA trip and weather has been completely dry down here in South Florida as of late.

Four days in to our long weekend trip to the Keys, water started leaking from the light fixture above the dining table. I stood on top of the counter and peered on to the top of the slide-out and saw that there was water all over the interior top of the slide. It seemed to be leaking in at the rubber seam in two areas and accumulating on top of the slide. One area where it was leaking in seemed to be parallel to the middle A/C main vent and the other area seemed to parallel to one of the other vents associated with the middle A/C, leading me to think that the problem is, and always was, an A/C leak.

When we had the trip to GA, we ran the heat and /or the AC significantly for a couple days and during the drive home to South Florida. The A/C would have leaked during the trip and we didn't know until we pulled the rig out of storage. When we were in the Keys, we rain the A/C non-stop for the 4 days that the unit was parked.

What a pain in the butt! I'm wondering if there are any other folks out there who have had this issue, or am I the lucky one?

The RV has been mechanically sound in several regards, but this deal with the leak has me frustrated, especially since Gulf Stream tried to fix the problem once. I'm thinking that they'd be hard pressed to not completely fix the problem. Admittedly, there was a Power Gear problem that caused the full body slide not to be flush (and that was fixed). Association was not causation and the Power Gear issue with the slide was not the source of the leak; rather, it was just another thing that was broken. We can't be accused of lack of service, as we've just recently gotten the damn thing back from being fixed. Everybody just missed the problem's source.

Once again, I've very interested in finding out if others of you have had the same issue with a leak above the full body slide in the interior.

Thanks,
Mike