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2013 290 RST owner here. very close to your unit. Had slide alignment issues, fixed by dealer. Look at the undersides of your slides. Mine had the Darco-wrap. Looks like those blue tarps you get, but black. Had to put thin runners where the rollers or guides were. It was wearing and beginning to tear. May have been fixed by the time yours was built.
Mine has 2 grey tanks. The second tank valve is located in the drivers side wheel well, just above the front most tire. My valve handle was missing. Got lucky and caught it during PDI. Ummmm....maybe they did not tighten it correctly, but on one trip discovered it missing. Camp store sold me one, threaded it back on, added a wire to keep it from rotating off again.
Cheap tires, see the many threads regarding china-bombs. All 5 of mine separated before I put 300 miles on it. (Yes, the spare too, never on the ground!) On my year, the 16” load range E tires and heavier axle was an option. Stock on my year was 15” load range D.
Changed the bathroom faucet with a close-out from Home Despot. The spout was too close to the back of the sink, causing water to gather at the base of the faucet. Put in a high-rise that put it further into the skin. Kitchen faucet was very hard to get warm water when doing dishes-either too cold or hot. Bought an open box buy at H.D. That is motion sensing and is easy to get the water temp right.
A few nit picky things, like the wallpaper coming unglued in a few places. Easy fix. Disliked some of the light switch locations, fixed with cheapie wireless controllers from Amazon and wall mounted them. The Swintec slide controller was located back inside the crawl space as described below. Relocated it so if there was a problem or error codes, I could get to it easy.
Hate the bathroom door swing. Hope to reverse it someday, or get one of those seen in some of the newer campers that swing in from the middle and slide. At night, if you are sleeping on the passenger side, it is easiest to go into the hall to access the bathroom as the foot of the bed is close to the wall. You have to go past the door, onto the first step to open it, then climb back up into the bathroom. (My wife sleeps on that side, as that is the side with the night-stand for her CPAP machine and she has a bad ankle)
Added a remote controlled Fantastic fan in the kitchen area. The ceiling is waaaayyyy too tall for us even with a step stool to reach to turn on the fan or open the vent. That should be a standard item with a wall switch in my opinion.
They could have done a better job with the location of the winterizing and hot water heater bypass valves. Mine are in the front basement, behind the access panel (that you have to remove) and crawl back into that area to activate. It is a tight fit-and I am a smaller guy! In the water bay I added a panel mounted 3way valve and longer hose to my winterizing so I can use the water pump to suck water from a container when I am boondocking. I also moved the W.H. Bypass valves to just behind the access panel. Still have to open that, but no longer have to crawl way back in there. Hopefully, they changed that for your year.
As you can see, really nothing major, just minor stuff or annoyances. We have put on over 10,000 miles on it so far, with our longest outing of just over 7 weeks. We really like it, has a lot of nice features and tows easy with my 2001 F250 diesel. Yes, the new ones will run past me up the hills but, the 7.3 will still be running with very minimal maintenance and cost long after the nuclear winter is over and cockroaches take over the world.....lol!
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1987 Starcraft Nova tent trailer, purch. '87, sold 8.14
2013 Crusader 290RLT bought new, 8.14 lotsa mods!
2001 Ford F-250 7.3
Loving wife, R.I.P., 6/6/19
and Mason the always dirty dog! R.I.P, 2/19
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