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Old 06-19-2017, 01:11 AM   #1
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Entry / Exit Door Sticking

Our new 2017 3160RL has an issue with the entry/exit door. After disconnecting from the truck and performing the auto level from the hydraulic jacks, and opening the living room and kitchen slides the door hits the frame at the top on the lock side. It appears there is some sort of flex that is causing the issue. The door works great if the slides are in and only the front landing jacks are deployed. Has anyone else experienced this issue? If so what was the fix?

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Old 06-19-2017, 06:32 AM   #2
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We had a problem with the door sticking and determined it was a screw on the plate in the door jamb catching the plate in the door. We fixed the problem by removing the screw. Efforts to replace it failed when we discovered that there was nothing in behind to screw it into!

Here are pictures of both plates. You can see the scratches caused by the screw head in the door plate.
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Old 06-19-2017, 07:26 AM   #3
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We have noticed minor versions of this on our 3160, but nothing that extreme. Make sure all the hardware it'll tight and also look for anything that isn't adjusted/aligned well such as the striker plate. Those type of checks cleaned up most of the issues we had. We also had a screw strip on the screen door latch handle mount that was causing it not latch consistently. The welcome home light switch seems to put a lot of pressure on the screen frame as it isn't a very smooth switch config and that causes us annoyances too
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Old 06-19-2017, 07:46 AM   #4
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Mine drags at bottom of screen door
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Old 06-19-2017, 08:23 AM   #5
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Mine drags at bottom of screen door
We had a problem with this two trailers ago. What they did to fix it was flex the screen door a bit. How they did that was they took a piece of wood (2X4), stood outside the trailer, put the piece of wood at the bottom of the door step where the screen door needed to be adjusted, closed the screen door onto the wood and applied pressure to the bottom of the screen door with the wood to bend it back in shape.

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Old 06-21-2017, 10:20 AM   #6
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Go into manual mode on the levelers and do some minor rear leveler adjustments to see if that fixes the issue. Our bedroom door has this issue sometimes.
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Old 06-21-2017, 09:50 PM   #7
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We had a similar problem with our 281RLT. It seems to be caused by the door expanding at a different rate than the body of the RV when it gets hot.
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Old 05-28-2022, 09:16 PM   #8
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I am having the same problem. what did you do to fix it
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Old 05-29-2022, 06:28 AM   #9
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This is an older thread that I had not seen before but i was having the same issue, but not always. What I have determined with mine is that if using the auto leveling, the last move the auto level seems to make before the success message is the front jacks going up to finish the process. I am guessing that what is happening is that it shifts weight off the middle set of jacks and puts it on the rear set, creating a bit of a sag in the center. I now finish my leveling process by switching to manual after the auto is done and just hitting the rear jacks for a moment. I believe that it equalizes the weight being supported by the rear and middle jacks, somewhat redistributing the weight over all six jacks. Ymmv, but seems to help for us. I see that Jcurtis in post number 6 above may have discovered this too. Good luck, and welcome to the forum.
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