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Originally Posted by Jim G
This has been a great thread with some very good advice. Too bad your 337 has given you problems. We have a 2011 337XL with the super slide and now 35k miles and luckily have not had any major problems, just some frustration once from a loose wire on the hydraulic motor that made retraction of the slides intermittent. Was hard to troubleshoot but easy to fix.
The only suggestion I would add is that if you ever use the manual leveling buttons use each one in small increments, like the auto leveling does.
If you try to raise one corner a large amount, then another, the RV can have a tendency to twist and can make slides bind, particularly the super slide.
Thanks to your info I have found my fluid level to be about 2 inches low, I will get some Mercron5 as u suggest
Good luck in the future
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Hi Jim. Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Much appreciated.
The
automatic leveling feature works sporadically. We have not been able to get it to work consistently. As a result, we level manually. We agree that doing this needs to be done in
short spurts, otherwise the coach could twist and make slides bind. To test leveling before opening the slides, we open/close the bathroom door and the main entry/exit door to see if the open/close easily. If a door sticks, we adjust the leveling as needed.
On our latest trip, we experienced the super slide extending and then stopping. Then, it would neither extend further nor retract. The only thing we could do at that point was to
retract all jacks. Once the jacks were retracted, the super slide began to work again.
Your coach and ours are about the same
mileage age. A few of the problems we've encountered include:
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Ceiling throughout the coach sagging....needing to be re-glued. Forest River did share with us that in 2011 there were problems with the "glue" used to affix the ceiling material throughout the coach. They suggested that we go to Home Depot and buy a can of spray glue. We did this and re-glued several parts of the coach ceiling.
A frustrating part of this is that sections of the ceiling material would shrink a bit when re-glued. This caused some ceiling sections NOT to be covered by the white plastic strips that cover the seams between adjacent ceiling panels. Hope this makes sense.
We're tried to find wider plastic strips to resolve this problem. So far, we've had no luck with finding larger plastic strips. Suggestions will be most welcome.
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Super slide topper does not keep water from top of slide structure. We have had to replace the super slide topper. The topper does NOT extend beyond the ends of the slide structure. As a result, there is an open space between the top of the slide structure and the extended topper at each end of the super slide. This open space allows rain to come in under the topper. There is no drain feature to enable accumulated water to drain off the top of the super slide structure. As a result, the accumulated water can leak into the inside of the coach by running down the sides of the super slide structure inside the coach. Have you experienced this type of problem?
These are two examples of problems that we have experienced with our coach. We've also had problems with
Dometic refrigerator performance and
sliding shower door panels constantly coming off the curved tracks. For these problems, we came up with our own solutions to solve the problems.
Finally, in order
to improve the "driving" of the coach, we....
-->Repaired the
front sway bar.
-->Upgraded the
rear sway bar by adding an auxiliary sway bar to include with the original one for added strength.
-->Upgraded the
rear track bar to aid in rear end movement.
-->Installed a
super steer rear V10 F53 track bar.
The above changes and upgrades really improved the
driving experience of the coach. This work was expensive but worth the investment.
We would appreciate hearing about your experiences with your 2011 Georgetown.
Best wishes,
Rick Lillie
Linear Mode
