1995 Dutchmen Trailer Body and structure Problems

“**copy of email to thor corp** a little back ground, during our warranty period, we contacted thor industries reference leaking water into the roofing system. I was told by customer service that a recall of the roofs was order and notices were sent to owner. When I mentioned that we never received a notice about recall, your customer service rep stated that because we didn't respond, we were not eligible for the recall . I asked which address they showed on file (which was the correct address), she mentioned that there was nothing they could do. …”

“The roof top had absorbed water and the wood rotted on the sides next to the lift arms and caused the roof to be very dangerous to raise and not safely usable after only a year and half of new product purchase and being dealer serviced.”

“We have a 1995 Dutchmen popup camper, model 1204. During a camping trip this week, while trying to raise the roof on the popup camper, the side bolts on two sides of the camper (4 bolts totaled) pulled through the rotted wood under the roof and allowed the camper top to drop. Fortunately, we scrambled away from the camper just in time. This could have caused death or severe injury. Upon further examination, the wood on the sides and front and back of the camper roof is basically dangerous, so the camper probably will sit in our garage where it was stored...unusable and a total waste of money. …”

“We have a 1995 dutchman pop up camper, I have read on the internet that there are many others that have had the same problems with them collapsing and the roof being dry rotted this also happened to my family (july 2004) thankfully no one was hurt. This camper is decaying and a piece of garbage because of fatly manufacturing. It was fixed and had to have outside brackets put on because the wood is such pore condition, it is once again unusable because of problems with the roof again, they told us it needs a new roof. Please invested and help all of use that have these campers. …”

“Due to the design of dutchman pop-up camper roofs for this year, water is allowed to enter roof causing wood to rot and failure of roof supports. There is the potential for serious injury and/or death because of the weight of the roof.”