sidewall demaination

Anyway, I was wondering if anyone has experience with covering an rpod or similar with corrugated siding. The repair shops want $10k to re-skin one side of the trailer and $4K to paint and re-decal. We only paid $16k for the trailer in 2018, so this cost is absolutely absurd. I was thinking about covering it with corrugated alum., but im not sure about how to fasten the siding with such a limited amount of framing. Maybe remove the lauan and install 1/4 plywood, and then staple to that? Any thoughts? Thx

I suppose the same roof corner trim can be used? Or is there different trim used for corrugated material? I'll have to go look at a metal trailer on a lot some where to see how its trimmed out. Ugh!. What a nightmare. We thought we would be relaxing and enjoying life in our rpod and now we gotta deal with this. 

Forrest River has replied and been nice, but they want nothing to do with it. They shouldn't tell you in their video that the window seals are some special design that do not need maintenance or caulk around them. Total BS!! 

 

We met with a few people who do RV body work. $15k to replace the whole side of our 180. We pulled a window out and looked down into the delam area, no water damage. The filon is just falling off the plywood. You can see bubbles all over the wall from the middle of the windows down. Its definitely a factory defect, but FR wants nothing to do with it. Thought about hiring an attorney, but we'd probably just be throwing good money after bad. FR probably has an army of attorneys fending off this sort of stuff.  We've decided to cut out a section from mid window to the top of the storage compartments and replace it with new filon. Then add a flat trim seam at top and bottom of that new piece. Trying to pull it back and adhere again or add epoxy, etc would not be easy, so we made this choice. Hopefully it looks ok. I removed all of the decals on the opposite side this past weekend. We're going to add a brown vinyl piece down that side too to try to make it look the same. ??? We'll see how that works out. What a freaking nightmare this RV has turned out to be. I will NEVER buy another fiberglass RV. Who would design such a thing that is so hard to work on. Live and learn.