Repairing the bedroom slide doors

[jagibson58]

For those of you folks that have a master bedroom with dual sliding doors that constantly fall down during travel.
Here is our fix. Actually, saw this on the internet. It does work. Plus i removed the plastic slides on the floor and
replaced them with metal ones from Home Depot.
We wrapped heavy duty picture frame wire around the sliding parts on the door track. We still use the factory installed on the doors.
i have attached pictures for assistane.

We have a 2024 Alliance Paradigm 310RL

 

[Creek Jenkins]

On ours the screws pulled out of the wood, so I put in longer ones but they pulled out as well. I think the wood is not very thick. I will try larger screws. I like the roller guides shown in that fix though. My plan is to get another pair of latches like the one that holds the doors shut and install them on the inside of the door jamb to hold the doors open while traveling. Someone else on the forum posted that idea a while ago. I will then remove the stops in the center so the doors can be moved fully to the right while making the bed.
Cheers
Creek

 

[jagibson58]

I tried adding an additional latch on the door. Still didn’t help. Wood is too soft unless you use a nut and bolt.

 

[RockDr896]

If it is too soft, maybe even sleeve the bolt through hole?

 

[M and E]

We have these two products.

Amazon.com

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B1QVB62B?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

I have not installed them yet, others on the Facebook group have, all reported really good results.

 

[jagibson58]

Update: it appears at least on the 310RL units for 2026 that Alliance is not using the poor quality designed dual slide doors in the master bedroom closet. They have finally upgraded to a better design. Looks very close to what Keystone Montana units have.

 

[Randy Sprague]

Have a 2025 340RL, the bedroom closet doors are made out of MDF. They did not predrill the slide holders. Result, the MDF has split causing the doors to fall off. Anyone come up with a fix? Longer screws did not work. Doing that pulled the top board away from the side boards.

 

[KCAlis]

We took a different route and removed both doors in our 25 310RL, replacing them with a color coordinated, draw window curtain on a twist-to-tighten rod between the door frame. We put the doors in storage and moved the hangers behind the screws in the tracks to keep them from running back and forth while traveling. Completely reversible.

The end result: more room in the bedroom, no screechy door latches, no chance of a fallen door damaging the bedroom, better (in our opinion) aesthetics, and a reduction of 70 pounds in trailer weight. Lots of Ws!

We like it so much we did the same thing with the bedroom door and dropped another 50 pounds.

 

[Clmatt]

we have a 2025 370FB, the screws holding up the door from the top just pulled through. the wood is too soft and the screws are too short. this is a very poor way to hang/suspend a door. The door from bedroom to front bath has the more traditional style of hanging where the hardware is screwed through the face of the door not through the top. Has anyone found a fix for the screws being ripped out of the top of the door?

 

[jagibson58]

Can you send some pictures?

 

[Clmatt]

Can you send some pictures?

as you can see, the screws from both roller mounting plates stripped through and the wood is cracked. the screws are 3/4" drywall screws.

 

[BryanValRox]

as you can see, the screws from both roller mounting plates stripped through and the wood is cracked. the screws are 3/4" drywall screws.

Just thinking out loud here, any chance you could get some strong wood glue and get it down in there and clamp her fast until it sets up? Then either use another wood screw, perhaps a large OD , perhaps longer.

Or even abandon wood screws, and go with some sort of threaded insert for wood that would accept machine screws to hold the bracket in place.

 

[Maze]

I also did the wire around the latches on 2 doors but wanted to make sure it didn't fall off again after it broke the tv outlet in the bedroom, so added a securement strap and block of wood under to help. 2 eyelets and bolts came in a pack at harbor freight. This is on a different manufacture's model but slider issues are slider issues. Hasn't fallen off since. 6 trips now and counting. I mean, I'm not an engineer but apparently, I've out engineered the engineers.

 

[Creek Jenkins]

As someone else on this form suggested I put the same latch on the inside to hold the door tight against the opening frame. As for the screws pulling out of the top of the door I tried using longer screws, that didn’t work as seems as though the wood is not very thick. So then I use larger screws. They did not hold either. So then I installed a 6 inch metal strap all along the top of the door frame and screwed it down with cabinet screws in a few places. You can see the edge of the strap in the picture below. The cabinet screws are low profile and don’t interfere with the operation of the door. That has been holding very well in our travels since.
Cheers
Creek