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Title: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: Falconguy on February 10, 2025, 10:31:47 am
Getting ready to depart from FOT, wife was retracting the bedroom slide, and we heard a very loud bang. The slide was almost completely in when it occurred. It sounded like something had either broken or had been in a bind and suddenly let go. Checking outside the slide appeared to be retracted to the proper setting. When we got home, I extended the side thinking I would need to access something under the wardrobe and very thing seemed normal. Before I start tearing anything apart, has anyone had something like this? My first thought is that it is a stop for the slide that has broken. Pics of the slide set up for wardrobe slide would be great.

Thank, Ron
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: Michelle on February 10, 2025, 10:35:03 am
Pics of the slide set up for wardrobe slide would be great.


I think the '02 has the same wardrobe slide mechanism as the '03 (front slides are different).  Look about halfway down on this page Slide Room Sensors (https://www.irvblog.com/foretravel%20projects/Slide-Room-Sensors/)  That was our desk, but would be a wardrobe slide in most coaches with N/S beds.
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: Falconguy on February 10, 2025, 10:54:26 am
Thanks , those pictures help a lot. The very first pic at the top of the page, I see a couple of aluminum angles that appear to be some sort of stop, as opposed to a mounting bracket for the prox switch. One of them is not flush like it has had pressure applied. Can you clarify that for me?
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: steve on February 10, 2025, 05:43:49 pm
The aluminum brackets seen in the first picture hold the switches that turn off the ceiling puck lights when you pull the slide in.
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: WS6_Keith on February 10, 2025, 10:55:23 pm
Any chance the coach wasn't level when you pulled the slide in?  Something bound up?
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: AdventureSofie on February 11, 2025, 07:20:49 pm
We have the same coach.  Anything left in the path?  Maybe something with the awning?
Title: Re: Loud bang during slide retraction
Post by: red tractor on February 16, 2025, 07:32:11 pm
I killed a laptop with the bedroom slide in our 03.