Keeping sliding windows locked

[Bill n Susan]

This may have been discussed before, but does anyone have ideas on how to keep the sliding windows latched during travel days? These are the windows on the living room slide-out of our 331RL. Standard windows, not frameless. The OEM latches just don’t stay locked.
Thanks in advance for your help and ideas.

[jcurtis934]

On mine you push in on the latch and it can be felt to lock.

[uhftx]

I have never heard of this being a problem. One way to keep a slider door more secure at home, is to cut a broom handle to length and keep it in the track. You could probably do this with a dowel. My sliding windows are all retracted with the slideout and on the inside when traveling.

[sourdough]

Are the latches actually secure? On our 331 both those windows are emergency windows with red latches as I recall (it's in the shop or I would check). We've drive cross country twice across some very rough roads with no problems at all. I will note this; you have to sort of slam them to make them latch properly. Right after I bought it and was walking around looking at it my service advisor, who is much taller than I am, didn't say a word but walked up to the side of the trailer, put both hands on one of the windows and just slammed it. It had been open so I know it can happen. After watching him (he said they have to be closed good) we make sure we close them hard enough to secure the latches.

[Texan]

Agree that the dowel stick would work great if you can't get the latch to work properly. I use a dowel stick for my shower door as a back-up just in case the plastic latch breaks which could cause a catastrophe.

[Bill n Susan]

Thanks, that’s pretty much what we are experiencing too.