Today I'm going to share with you what I think is my most genius RV hack thus far
and it all has to do with my RV door and this hack is gonna be applicable for
anybody with an RV so stay tuned. Hi i'm Randi and i am so thrilled you're here
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adventure together what happens when you open your RV door
does it have a mechanism to stay in place. If you've watched some of my
previous videos you will know that our window broke the window busted right
here and this happened one day when I opened the door and the wind grabbed it
and slammed against the window busting it. So we contacted our dealer to get a
replacement window but we're just getting around to replacing it now
because first before we replaced the window I wanted to make sure that we had
a good solution for the door. I want to figure out what we can do to make sure
that when the door opens it no longer will bang against the window and the
problem I have is the latch that came with the little guy max that's supposed
to go in here and there won't stay in it's a piece of plastic that from day
one has never stayed in so we don't have anything to stop the door from slamming
right now therefore we didn't want to replace our
window until this was solved my first thought was just to replace it with
another door latch similar to this one problem with that is I'm walking out the
door and the wind grabs the door again I'm not gonna have time to come out here
put my lad John and make sure that the door doesn't
hit the window and that's exactly how the window broke in the first place so
this is the solution and what's unique about this is that it uses a magnet to
latch together
first we're attaching the bracket to our beach door stopper on and now we're
gonna do the same thing for the door latch to stop the screw from unscrewing
as we're traveling down the road toms adding some silicone in there
and then we just leave that part of the catch in to the rocket look at how it
catches with the magnet I think it's gonna be just strong enough yeah you
just pull it yep we're not the windows not gonna hit anymore
nope the windows not hitting and you just pull it apart
alright let's open the door and see what happens let me open the door the magnet
just catches it and it just latches so look it just latches and then there's a
little bit of give there as well oh I think I'm gonna like this and give it a
little bit of a tug and it comes right off
nice that's not gonna hit the window once the window gets replaced I'm just
gonna come out and fling the door open and see what happens
oh yeah that was nice I just winged it open gently and the magnetic latch
caught it oh this is gonna work fabulous I think we're gonna be really happy with
the magnetic doorstop instead of having a latch system I think it's just gonna
be much easier we won't have to worry about that third piece falling off like
it did from the beginning I think this is gonna be a really good solution
I don't recall exactly how much that magnetic door latch was but I will leave
all of this information including a link directly to this magnetic door latch in
the video descriptions below project one now complete now it's time
to replace the window
here's our replacement window I think we paid about 230 for the replacement
window from the dealership first we're gonna unscrew it and the window just
came right off once the window was unscrewed from these brackets it just
slid off so easily because up here on top there's nothing screwing the window
and it just slides in there the window came with these brackets which we've
already got so we're gonna take these off the replacement window and keep them
just in case one of them should break okay it's time to put the new window on
our new window is all installed and it looks beautiful
no more cracked windows and now when we open the door the door is no longer
gonna hit the window
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