I keep on breaking one of the red clearance lights on the back of my trailer. I cant figure out where it is hitting. I just find it in pieces every time I fold the trailer down aparently from a topside impact. It is not a result from hitting something else I store the trailer in side yard and open it in same location. The weird thing is we have never used the bed on that side. We use the other side and my son sleeps on the dinette bed.
I am thinking is clearance issue on that side and the bed or i am hitting it with built in supports when I set it up. Anyone by chance have similar problem?
tc happy camping
Sometimes, a light assembly is tightened "too tight" and by doing so, it curves ist back. When the plastic lens is screwed or snapped onto its assembly, the lens cover become too "over stressed". If over stressed, a simple chassis trailer twist (like sleeping in one corner - where its bed it located) or a sudden bump on the road could make the light assembly snap. Especially if you keep noticing the same light lens keeps snapping.
As a suggestion, remove the light assembly (its base), add some clear external silicone behind the light assembly (where it touches the trailer's side), then screw the light assembly back on. This time, only tighten the assembly screws "firm" but not tight. The extra silicone that squeezes out can be whipped away. Then, put the lens cover back on. Hopefully, this silicone and firm tightend screwed didn't warp its "base" assembly. Thus, reduction of "over stess" on its Plastic lens cover.
stormspotter wrote: It is not a result from hitting something else I store the trailer in side yard and open it in same location.
I would coonsider the kid next door witha BB gun. When the trailer is popped up he has a target. When it is down the target is behind the fence.
1996 Suburban 4x4. 350 Vortec, 4.10 3/4 ton
2005 Jayco Jay Flight 27BH
1986 Coleman Columbia Popup. 980 Lbs dry
It's so small I forget it's back there.
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