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Originally Posted by ependydad
Owner's choice. I left mine up so that I couldn't forget and try to raise the front at a later point. Plus I saw it as one less entry point for vermin.
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x2 For both reasons.
1) One month in to ownership I bent my rear electric jack arm by forgetting to raise it prior to extending the tongue jack for hooking up. (Not sure how, but when I went to pay for it my dealer had managed to get it covered as a warranty repair.)
2) I used to store TT with jacks down (even after #1 occurred.) But we had mice in the TT at home twice, and while camping we had a rat use the jack strut as a handy ramp to get into our basement. No rodents since I've been leaving the jacks up for storage. (And I plugged what was an obvious entry point for the rat...I'd carefully taped over the entire bottom prior to the rat issue, but I, and the manufacturer apparently, did not notice the 1" dia. hole in the main frame channel for a 1/4" 12V wire to pass through. Rodents could run up the jack "ramp" and down the flange of the channel to the "welcome mat" with their eyes closed.