[Richard]

I couldn't stand it, so I moved all the stuff out of the way and played with the slide and floor mechanism. I see that they are channels at each end that guide the floor slide. I can also see that about every 18 inches or so, there are nylon guides that slide with the floor to help guide it under the permanent floor. I had about a 1/8 clearance between the carpet and any of the contact points. I do not detect that the carpet is touching anything. I put masking tape at different places on the carpet to see if there was a rub. There was not.

I don't know if my carpet is original or not. I kind of doubt it is given it's good condition for a 99 coach. The point being that the replacement carpet may be thinner than the original. I suspect that the thickness of any replacement flooring will be the key to it fitting into the sliding floor and not scuffing. I did not see what I expected to see. What I expected was rollers or guides that would cause the sliding floor to dive under the permanent floor. They are not there in my coach. The sliding floor does slide in two c channel tracks at each end.

The vinyl planking that was used in the bedroom is slightly thinner than the granite. I know that because I can see the difference at the transition. I am going to get few pieces of the vinyl and fit it into the slide tray to see what happens. It will be a while before I am home to try it, but stay tuned.

Carpet is hard to maintain in most of the places we camp or stay. Hard surface floors make more sense. I could put down marble/granite/ceramic since I now have the 365s on the front, but that would take away some of the safety margin I just gained.

After posting and thinking about what I saw and the slant comment, there may be a third possibility. Newell could have thinned the wood planking for the slide floor, and consequently thinned the adjacent planking for the coach floor to match in height. But the floor thickness would have to increase slightly to match up with the thickness of the granite floor if that were left in the coach. A combination of planing the planks and adhesive thickness could have worked giving a floor that imperceptibly slanted from the granite to the slide.