Out 04 Allure is electric motor driven vs hydraulic. So apples to oranges as far as the mechanism and slide manufactures.
-We too had the 'sometimes it works, sometimes it don't' switches mystery. Follow some advice from other CC members, we to started 'goosing' the non working switch (Usually front front slide.), by activating the opposite switch (Bedroom in this case.). This happened for about 6-7 months, about 1 1/2 years ago, and then the problem went away... (My favorite kind of maintenance, where the magic of procrastination takes of the problem
!) I was told that replacing one of the switches, again usually the rear from what I remember, usually took care of the intermittent operation. And was going to do so when it started to work...
-Our front slide will sometimes, more often then not when that side of the coach has baked in the sun, stop during the initial raising of the slide to go over the coach floor. (We call it 'getting over the hump' the first 2-4" of retracting.) If working too hard, the slide will stop, and then we have to wait a few seconds hit the switch to extend it (Just as soon as it budges in the extend direction, we stop the movement.) and then we try retraction again. 9 times out of 10 it works. And we do slide out two recliners forward to be just slightly on the slide out flooring, reducing the weight the motors have to deal with. Once we've retracted the slide about half way, we stop and go slide the recliners into the slide area for traveling, and then completed the retraction. And wait until we hear the two motors 'self synchronize' (My term, forgot the formal thing that is going on, but the little noise of indicates that they are in sync for usage
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Upon occasions, again usually in hot baking in the sun of the slide side (We have two Driver's Slides on our coach.), I'll end up having to go out and provide some assistance to help the slide get 'over the hump'. I take this responsibility seriously, and have been known to have an extra glass of vino for the purpose putting a few pounds on - all for the sake of having mass to help the slide.
OP - Hard to do a search on the Yahoo User Group (At least I fail miserably in doing so
!) - but about 2 1/2 years ago their was a great thread about the different kinds of slides involved. As I recall, besides our normal CC owners participating with their school of hard knocks info - Kevin Waite also chimed in to help qualify some of the unique differences between models and models years, in regards to the different slides. And the more common problems were discussed... If you have the time to go back in time on that board, you might find it a useful read
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Best to all,
Smitty
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