Travel Trailer Repairs

I was pulling into a campground outside Flagstaff in late September when I spotted the stain spreading across the ceiling near the bedroom—a wet mark that hadn’t been there two days earlier. By the time I got up on the roof of my Grand Design Imagine 2500RL to track it down, I could see exactly … Read more

Walk into a Grand Design dealer’s service bay and you’ll hear one story: stabilizer jacks fail so often that you should just accept it as normal wear and budget for replacements every few years. Step into an RV forum and the advice flips completely — owners swear their jacks last decades if you actually maintain … Read more

The Jayco Eagle 321RSTS ships with a Suburban water heater that’s reliable enough—until the anode rod gets forgotten. I’ve pulled more than a handful of these tanks apart where the magnesium core had already dissolved completely, leaving nothing but a bare steel wire and a tank wall that’s turned into Swiss cheese from the inside … Read more

Jayco doesn’t print it in the owner’s manual, and a service writer won’t volunteer this information: a roof membrane leak on the Eagle 321RSTS almost never means the membrane itself failed first. What actually happens is an owner spots water staining inside, assumes the rubber is shot, and orders a full membrane replacement—only to discover … Read more

I was backed into a pull-through at a New Mexico campground when I first heard it—a grinding sound that didn’t belong, followed by a hesitation mid-slide. The bedroom slide on the Jayco Eagle 321RSTS would extend about halfway, then strain and slow down like it was fighting through mud. By the third cycle, the motor … Read more

Most people buy a used RV and assume the toilet just works — that it’s either functional or it isn’t, with nothing in between. That’s wrong. A Jayco Jay Flight 174BH toilet can leak for months without you ever knowing it’s happening, draining black water slowly into the subfloor, rotting wood, breeding mold, and creating … Read more

I’ve got my workbench set up in the shade bay of my current site outside Tucson, and spread across it right now are the remains of three failed slide-out seals from three different rigs I’ve serviced in the past month alone. The Jayco Jay Flight 174BH keeps showing up in that pile. That’s not coincidence … Read more

Ignore a water pump failure on your Airstream Bambi 16RB and you’re not just looking at no water pressure—you’re inviting slow, hidden rot inside the walls of a trailer where moisture travels through fiberglass cavities and doesn’t announce itself until structural damage is already done. The Bambi’s compact footprint means there’s nowhere for water intrusion … Read more

I’ve got the brake controller from a Jayco Jay Flight 174BH sitting on my workbench right now, and the corrosion tells the whole story. The connector pins are discolored — that greenish film that shows moisture got in and stayed there. The solder joints on the circuit board are dull and cracked in two spots. … Read more

“Drew, my awning fabric is basically falling apart—water’s pooling in the wrinkles, and I can see mildew growing where it’s pulling away from the roller. Can I swap it myself, or am I looking at a dealer bill?” I got that text from a friend who’d been full-timing her Bambi 16RB for two seasons, and … Read more