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    Posted: 15 Jul 2011 at 5:37pm
Well got the job done at Campkins yesterday, took most of the day but it looks nice. The trailer seemed to be smoother on the 300 km trip back to North Bay, maybe the gas consumption was a little better. Anyway no worse than before. 
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Mine is booked for August 3 at Campkins and as with the rest, they siad it would take a full day. Does anybody have pictures of the retro fit that was done?
 
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So got the recall done at Campkins on the 14th, took the R-Pod out to Samuel de Champlain park for three weeks starting last Sunday. While putting up the R-Dome I tried to install the lower bug net and the lights that were put on the trailer fenders have wires that are fastened right over the rail to slide the bug net in. No way to use that bug net now. Now has this happened to others? I think the wire should have been put through a hole in the side of the trailer and down through the floor. Not making the rail useless. I left them a message Sunday, not happy as I was in bug central but have not heard back.  Short of taking part of the rail off on either side of the front and rear wires behing the wheel, spreading it out to slide the rail around the wires there is just no way to use the lower bug screen. Thumbs Down
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You could buy a low voltage plug, cut the wire, and put the plug in that spot.  Then when you need to install the screen unplug the light.
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Yeah, but why should I have to? I would like to know if the recall from other dealers did the same thing.
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I just picked mine up from Campkins and it was installed just like PaddyMorris. I pointed out the problem with the skirt track and I was told this was how the factory told them to install the lights and I should cut the skirt to make it fit.
Oh, ok. Shocked
 
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Hi Derek, I have been following Paddy Moris on the other forum.
I picked up my trailer Monday night from Campkins and have had many "discussions" them regarding the installation.
 
Following is a comment to Patty I posted on the other forum
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Picked up my Pod last night from Campkins. They had phoned me on Saturday and recommended that a hole not be cut behind the rail for the wire as it would cut into the floor and may develope a possible leak. They investigated one of the new pods that they had on their lot and followed how Forest River installed the new lighting. A section of channel was removed the width of the fender. The bug screen is inserted into the grove, comes out of the grove at the fender, around the wire and back into the grove at the back of the fender. I tried it and it works well. I was shown the installation instructions from Forest River and there was no mention of removing this section of channel. As I mentioned before there is no channel in the fender area on the new trailers, too bad Forest River left out this important bit of information on the recall.
Hope this helps anyone else who is about to have the recall done. Other than that I was pleased with the work. By the way, the installation of the spoiler done by Camphins looks a lot better than the ones on the new trailers I saw on the lot.
By the way Paddy, going to be up in your neck of the woods next week camping at Mikisew Provincial Park. Look ing forward to it
2010 R-Pod 177 / 2009 GMC Canyon 4X4

Gerald, Lydia and The Boys (2 Shelties)......Canuck Podders
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Good for you Gerald, that is what I plan to do, just cut off a small section, widen the front and rear cuts in the rail and it should be good to go. My beef is nothing was said to me, thankfully the 23 days camping were hot and nights cool so skitters were almost non existant. Have fun at Mikesew, haven't been there since I was 15, that's a pretty old park yuk yuk! My wife has work friends that stay there every year.  
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Adding a plug would be far easier than cutting the C-channel.
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