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    Posted: 16 Jan 2018 at 10:50pm
Hi all,
I’m looking to purchase a slide topper for our 179.  I would love responses please from those who have them. Im tired of carrying a ladder along just to climb up to sweep off leaves and twigs off slideout prior to bringing it in.  Price is not an object if I can find a good quality brand that’s reliable. 
Any suggestions are appreciated...
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Posts: 471 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jan 2018 at 11:43pm
Steve,
I installed a Carefree slide topper that I got at my local dealer.
Go to Carefree's website and they will show you how to measure for it and you can buy it direct from them. My dealer gave me a better price though and measured it for me. I installed it myself in a little over an hour and wasn't that hard.
 
Here's the kit, looks worse than it is to install.

I have more pictures in my slopodmods link on page 2.
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Thanks. Great work on your mods.
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Posts: 6128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 7:27am
We put on on within weeks of bringing furpod home. Wouldn't have a slide without one. Carefree Sideout Kover II, I think the measurement was 74 inches.
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Posts: 1407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jan 2018 at 10:04am
I installed the regular Carefree Slide Cover on our 179. It's the 98-105" size. We got ours here because they had the best price I could find:

http://www.rvpartscountry.com/RV-Slideout-Cover-Roller-98-105-White.html
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Have the Carefree on 182G and would not have a camper without it.... No worries about water entering the slide or crap getting caught in the mechanisms.... Well worth the money and takes about an 1.5 hours to install.
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Posts: 1407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 10:15am
Not to mention that it saves some of the seals from UV damage.

The most difficult part of the install was feeding the cloth into the keder rail. I needed an extra hand (my wife) to hold up the other end of the roll, since it's so long.
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Posts: 2705 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 12:52pm
Has anyone compared the various brands/models of slide toppers, and the relative merits of them? I see there are at least toppers from Carefree (4 different models), Lippert, and Dometic. Differences seem to be the fabric, and whether or not there is a cover for the roll.

It seems like the ones with roll covers of one kind or another would be advantageous, but I don't know how much. The Dometic cover has a segmented aluminum cover-cover that looks clever, but I'm not convinced it wouldn't be a hassle at some point.
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Posts: 6418 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 1:05pm
Originally posted by TheBum

I installed the regular Carefree Slide Cover on our 179. It's the 98-105" size. We got ours here because they had the best price I could find:

http://www.rvpartscountry.com/RV-Slideout-Cover-Roller-98-105-White.html

I am guessing you ordered the tall bracket and hardware set for mounting it. Am I correct?
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Posts: 1407 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jan 2018 at 1:59pm
I'll have to check it on my way home this evening. I have to stop by anyway and turn on the electric blankets that we have strung under the Pod to prevent frozen plumbing during this short cold stretch we're having.
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