2016 Forest River Wildwood xlite Vent cover

[Boltman]

Looking for a replacment vent cover. The sun made the cover brittle and during a high wind it broke off. Looking for part and advise on how to replace.

[Splitshaft]

Vent covers are fairly universal, so pick up a replacement from any brick and mortar RV store or order one online. After taking out the screw that holds the vent crank to the transmission and the screws that hold the screen in the vent and disconnecting the old vent cover frame from the lift arm, there is usually just some metal tabs at the end of the hinge that easily bent out of the way and the old hinged side of the frame slides off. In some case there might be screws, however doubtful. Just reverse the procedure to install. Likely there are any number of YouTube videos that show exactly how to replace an RV vent cover. I usually replace the cover from inside the RV. However, some people might prefer to do it from both inside and outside. It is a very simple job once having learned how it is done. And they can easily be replaced on the road if needed when a new cover is in hand unless there is another cover over the standard crank up vent cover.

[larry2c]

I replaced ours (which broke into pieces on a breezy day when it was only about 18 months old) with one like this. It is noticably thicker than the original cover and does reduce the light coming into the batroom but that wasn't an issue for us.