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Old 09-23-2012, 10:16 AM   #1
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Don't damage your fender too

I have a 39 ft 2000 Damon Escaper on a spartan chassis. The air bags don't maintain their height more than a day or so. I parked with the wheels turned hard right and left the coach for a couple of days. When I came back I found the fiberglass fenderwell on the front right side resting on the wheel and a three inch section of the fender was broken off. Just thought I'd pass along the wisdom of my usual learning curve ( hard knocks )
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Thanks for your giving us the lesson of your bad experience. It's wheels forward from now on!
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Wow I am sorry to hear about that. I do not have that unit but I have friends that do and I will pass that tip on to them.
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I have a 2006 Tuscany that does the same thing and I never thought about that. Thanks for the heads up.
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Do you have larger-than-stock tires? If not that sounds like an engineering error. There are quite a few times where I turn my wheels sharply to tweak my RV alignment and leave the wheels turned. I've never had a clearance problem after dumping the bags.
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tires are stock
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Old 09-26-2012, 08:13 AM   #7
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Well that is just poor design. It's really unfortunate you're going to pay the price. I think most of us would have done this to our rigs if we had a similar lack of clearance, I know I would have!
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