[Mikendebbie]

This is my question...does frame flex/broken wall studs tend to occur more often in units with a slide-out located closer to the front and over the step in the frame for the raised front area?

If you look at my pics below - I drew a dotted red line across the area of the nose where I think maximum moment will occur under load (i.e. when hitched to the truck). Some units have a solid section of bonded wall thru this line. Some units have a large opening thru this dotted line. Seems like if there is more "meat" (solid wall area) to resist the moment - then the structural engineers should be adding "meat" to counter act the lack of "meat" when a slide opening happens along the red dotted line. I do not know the answer - but I wonder. I would love to get a peek at Keystone's statistics on this for failure rate. But if this was a factor - seems like they would have addressed this and eliminated the problem by now.