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'26 Valor 41v16 kitchen slide and pantry door handle contact

deblas

Member
Be aware....the slide trim and the pantry door handle MAY (did one time in our case) make contact when operating the kitchen slide. We noticed this on our final walk-thru, as the pantry door latch was not holding the door tight against the door jamb. The dealer tech made an adjustment to the strike plate to make the door hold tighter to the jamb, but when you operate the slide, there is a bit of an initial "wobble" of the slide and the slide facia board is ridiculously close to the pantry handle, maybe an 1/8th(?) of an inch.

We were not comfortable with that and so we made our first "mod":
1) Removed door handle
2) Installed a black "door hole cover plate".
3) Instead of using the intended screw to mount said door hole cover plate, we found an appropriately styled "single screw black button cabinet pull" and used a longer 8/32 machine screw to hold the the cover plate and the new cabinet pull together.
4) Lastly, to hold the door against the jamb now that the latch had been removed, we installed a black "closet ball door catch". This had adjustable depth and a spring loaded ball to keep the door closed.

So far this is working, but I should not have had to do something as silly as this.....
 

Bozo

Prominent Member
Be aware....the slide trim and the pantry door handle MAY (did one time in our case) make contact when operating the kitchen slide. We noticed this on our final walk-thru, as the pantry door latch was not holding the door tight against the door jamb. The dealer tech made an adjustment to the strike plate to make the door hold tighter to the jamb, but when you operate the slide, there is a bit of an initial "wobble" of the slide and the slide facia board is ridiculously close to the pantry handle, maybe an 1/8th(?) of an inch.

We were not comfortable with that and so we made our first "mod":
1) Removed door handle
2) Installed a black "door hole cover plate".
3) Instead of using the intended screw to mount said door hole cover plate, we found an appropriately styled "single screw black button cabinet pull" and used a longer 8/32 machine screw to hold the the cover plate and the new cabinet pull together.
4) Lastly, to hold the door against the jamb now that the latch had been removed, we installed a black "closet ball door catch". This had adjustable depth and a spring loaded ball to keep the door closed.

So far this is working, but I should not have had to do something as silly as this.....
Welcome to the world of a new rv issues……same as the old rv issues. But seriously, enjoy the new rig and fix the issues you are comfortable handling as warranty work at a dealer is a complete and utter joke.
 
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