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    Posted: 20 Jul 2017 at 12:44pm
My email request to FR:   Purchased our 179 this past March and love it. I'm an RPOD-Owners Forum member and just started seeing posts about shower wall deformation and responses that attribute it to heat. Sure enough, I checked mine yesterday with 90 degrees here in Carolina and saw very wavy shower walls and the edge of one buckling out enough I could see under it. I checked this morning with 70 degrees and walls had gone back to almost normal...still a little waviness. I have some concerns about the long term impacts to the caulking between the 2 panels and uneven expansion. And to the adhesive method under the panels. You will soon be getting more inquiries about this since I understand the 179 (and other models?) are now using a new, different shower material. Has there been any discussion/resolution about this?

Their reply:  Good Afternoon Mark,
I do apologize that you are experiencing these issues, but we have not had complaints about this issue. I ran your vin number and it looks like this unit was manufactured in February of this year, we have not made any changes to the R-Pod shower surrounds since your unit was manufactured. 

Not much of an answer...my reply:  Thanks for the response.  I realize you haven’t made changes since February but the shower surrounds are different from before then.  Any thoughts on the problem?

 Their response:   As I stated we have not been presented with this issue before your email to us. So I am not sure what could be causing  the issue. You could always take the unit into a service center or dealership and see if they can diagnose what might be causing the issue. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 20 Jul 2017 at 1:02pm
Maybe send them a link to the forum thread where a few of us mention this?
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Took my pod to Tom’s Camperland in Mesa, AZ and they added a piece of trim also like Dirt Road Warrior.  Seems to have fixed problem but we will see what 110 degree temps do to it next summer.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 02 Oct 2017 at 8:19pm
New to this, but recall reading that the slight bulge at the bottom left at entry is normal to allow condensation to evaporate. It does seem that a continuing expansion suggest that may not have been true, although the surround is just attached at the punch-pin type things. Would love to hear of a fix if needed. Or maybe live with it or replace with something better....
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