Water Infiltration
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Road spray from tires getting on top of the chloroplast and draining while parked maybe?
Thanks for the response but this was in the garage.
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Agree with KCAlis, I have had a similar issue and it only happens after a running down the road in the rain. After the rig gets disconnected and placed in storage, it will drain a small amount out of small spot in the corroplast. Cannot find any other reason, not black or Grey water.
I might be missing something. After towing in the rain, I opened the storage compartment, main compartment that I call the garage (pass through), and I had standing water on the floor. I’m not understanding the relationship to water inside the sealed area of the pass through storage, on the floor, and the chloroplast under the rig.
I appreciate the help!!
I appreciate the help!!
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Now that makes sense. We call it our basement. 😉 By chance did you have a side wind? Might have blown in.
I would go to that immediately too; and we did, to answer the question but only for a few miles. However, I do use a pressure washer to clean my rig and never had infiltration with that process. Though, what was true yesterday is not necessarily so today. I did get in and inspect from the inside. That gasket is tight. I’m kind of thinking something less obvious is in play and I just don’t have enough experience with this right now to know if I’m right or wrong. Thank you again!!! Any tips on the less obvious places to look? Nothing is standing out to me.
You know what? I’m wondering if I lost the cap to the cable chase. I just installed a camera a few weeks ago and dropped cable through it. When it stops raining I’ll check.
I still would like to hear from owners more experienced than me on other places to look. I can fix anything, and enjoy maintenance and even repairs, but I’ve got to find what I need to fix first.
Thank you all!!!
I still would like to hear from owners more experienced than me on other places to look. I can fix anything, and enjoy maintenance and even repairs, but I’ve got to find what I need to fix first.
Thank you all!!!
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Sorry for my input, I thought you meant the garage floor of your rv storage area. We had water getting into our pass thru but it was a door alignment issue that was corrected at the National Rally. The door was not fitting in the opening high enough to make good contact with the gasket in the frame. They loosened 2 screws on the hinge and raised the door, retightened the screws, works great now.
Good luck,
Good luck,
I hope I didn’t seem unappreciative. I’m grateful for you taking your time to help someone you don’t even know! My communication was not great in the original post. I’ll check that alignment this morning and that makes sense. I’ll post pics if you wouldn’t mind taking a look to see if it looks like an adjustment is needed.
Could be something as simple as latch not secured properly or completely. The cargo doors on my valor are horrible. I hate the dual latches and they need adjusting periodically. Pretty inconvenient when hands full. My cargo doors on curb side has always leaked. Door adjusted, no help. Door hole was cut wrong, no way to adjust it out. In my second year of ownership of this thing and quickly realizing that this is an antiquated design with lipstick and flashy sales slogan. Getting it in our head to possibly send this thing down the road as it was not a wise purchase.
Shoot. I did not even check that. I don’t think it’s the cause but never say never. We’re at a park up in Lake Wales and we’ve been hooked up since the 4th. Thank you !
In motorcycle forums they call it “bike porn” which I think is kind of funny.
I looked at your last picture and my first thought was, no wonder there are problems with leaking doors. They have too many doors one of them is bound to leak! 
LOL.
My 2022 only has 1 upswinging cargo door in the hitch area!
Now my pet peeve is with the driver side cargo door that is impeded by the slide.
I have been too cheap to convert to swinging doors on the driver side.
So I suffer and just bend down when accessing the driver side storage area.
LOL.My 2022 only has 1 upswinging cargo door in the hitch area!
Now my pet peeve is with the driver side cargo door that is impeded by the slide.
I have been too cheap to convert to swinging doors on the driver side.
So I suffer and just bend down when accessing the driver side storage area.
Great points ! I’m too inexperienced with RVs to have even made those observations, still being in the honeymoon phase. I saw someone on facebook who converted to the swinging doors. Looks pretty slick. But, to your point, I don’t recall it being a cheap and easy endeavor.I looked at your last picture and my first thought was, no wonder there are problems with leaking doors. They have too many doors one of them is bound to leak!
My 2022 only has 1 upswinging cargo door in the hitch area!
Now my pet peeve is with the driver side cargo door that is impeded by the slide.
I have been too cheap to convert to swinging doors on the driver side.
So I suffer and just bend down when accessing the driver side storage area.
So I was out looking at the rig evaluating my plan of attack to find the leak and it hit me. I was setting up in a torrential downpour. I’m pretty sure I left both doors open when I was setting up. Maybe it was something as simple as that. I’m just not finding any indication of a leak. @SKYSKIOC thanks for the tip. No leaks in the plumbing that I found. Not very neat in there, from the factory and I’ll clean that up, but dry. This might just be a case of me not following Occam’s Razor.