10-19-2015, 09:27 AM
This is my opinion, and worth exactly nothing.
The water damage around the toilet may or may not be water damage. I recently re wallpapered that area, and I can say the original looked like your pictures with peeling at the edges. On mine there was no water damage beneath the ugly peeling paper.
The Newell has aluminum skin as you know. It is tough on exposed edges not to get a little paint corrosion. Almost all of us have some. I used to worry about it, and after eight years of Newell ownership, I don't worry about the coach corroding away.
The buckle or protrusion in the top skin is likely, but not confirmed, caused by retracting or extending the slide when the coach chassis was in a bind. If you extend and retract the slide with the coach in an awkward position, you can cock the slide and it will catch the edge of the coach skin. I can show you pictures of mine. Newells don't typically have the delam issues.
Coach batteries dead. Could be older than advertised batteries. Could be a parasitic load dragging them down if they were not disconnected. The starting batteries are cheap.
Big cracks in interior laminate bear further investigation.
Crack in the tile, I don't know. Could be from flexing, could be from dropping something on it.
Rear slide seal cycling between vac and pressure needs some investigation. You do not want the seal to inflate while you are moving the slide.
No idea on the fogged windows. But I would check the walls under the windows for signs of long term leakage. That goes for ANY coach. A small ice pick right at the floor juncture can reveal a LOT.
The split slide seal is a big ticket item. Others may can tell you what the Newell price is for replacing.
Not trying to say these are or are not problems. But if you are like me, I don't know what is normal or abnormal when I first hit the learning curve.
Was it what you thought it would be?
Did it drive like you thought it would?
Was it quiet?
The water damage around the toilet may or may not be water damage. I recently re wallpapered that area, and I can say the original looked like your pictures with peeling at the edges. On mine there was no water damage beneath the ugly peeling paper.
The Newell has aluminum skin as you know. It is tough on exposed edges not to get a little paint corrosion. Almost all of us have some. I used to worry about it, and after eight years of Newell ownership, I don't worry about the coach corroding away.
The buckle or protrusion in the top skin is likely, but not confirmed, caused by retracting or extending the slide when the coach chassis was in a bind. If you extend and retract the slide with the coach in an awkward position, you can cock the slide and it will catch the edge of the coach skin. I can show you pictures of mine. Newells don't typically have the delam issues.
Coach batteries dead. Could be older than advertised batteries. Could be a parasitic load dragging them down if they were not disconnected. The starting batteries are cheap.
Big cracks in interior laminate bear further investigation.
Crack in the tile, I don't know. Could be from flexing, could be from dropping something on it.
Rear slide seal cycling between vac and pressure needs some investigation. You do not want the seal to inflate while you are moving the slide.
No idea on the fogged windows. But I would check the walls under the windows for signs of long term leakage. That goes for ANY coach. A small ice pick right at the floor juncture can reveal a LOT.
The split slide seal is a big ticket item. Others may can tell you what the Newell price is for replacing.
Not trying to say these are or are not problems. But if you are like me, I don't know what is normal or abnormal when I first hit the learning curve.
Was it what you thought it would be?
Did it drive like you thought it would?
Was it quiet?
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
99 Newell, 512
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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