my journey started out great you see I've never really liked rain so when I
drove from my home state of Virginia all the way to Michigan without seeing a
drop I was ecstatic in fact I didn't run into any issues whatsoever until I
reached the northern coast of Lake Superior when I arrived I realized I had
a problem my fridge was running on propane even though I was connected to
shore power upon further inspection I realized that none of my outlets were
working either and the GFI had popped but I did not know where the short was
after hours of tinkering I decided to take the RV back to the dealership in
South Dakota they fixed me up in no time the problem seemed to be a cable
underneath of the slide when closing the slide the cable will get caught between
this slide and the RV this resulted in a crimped and unusable cable happy my
camper was in working order again I continued on my journey once again I was
super lucky there was no rain on my month-long trip to Glacier National Park
until they like very last day of traveling when I got to Glacier however
I ended up with the exact same problem I called up a handyman he took off the
electrical tape from the previous job redid the job and voila fixed again just
like that I was happy that my camper was in working order again but really
unhappy that this was an ongoing issue and I didn't know when it was gonna
happen next after a month passed I pretty much had
completely forgotten about it I spent a couple weeks in Glacier a month in
Washington some time in Oregon and California went to Nevada and eventually
ended up at my buddy's house in Colorado it was gorgeous everyday and I was
having the time of my life in fact it only ranged one time in that
entire three months that I spent between glacier and my buddy's house in Colorado
and luckily for me I was on my way to my friend's house in Colorado when it
rained so it really didn't affect me because it was a travel day I finally
made it to my friend Josh's house and once again none of my outlets were
working luckily for me Josh's dad happens to be an extremely talented
handyman he took a look at it told me to take the electrical tape off of the
cable that had been previously worked on and he noticed that there was water
inside of the sheathing of the cable next he told me to unscrew the junction
box above the wheel well as soon as I loosen the screw water started pouring
out of this screw hole when designing the RV crossroads thought it would be a
good idea to put a junction box outside of the RV and only seal the bottom of
the junction box well they put the junction box over the tires what that
means is every time that I drove through rain the tire shot water up on top of
the junction box which then leaked down into the unsealed top however since they
did seal the bottom of the junction box that just means that the water had no
place to go and would pull inside of that junction box for anybody who
doesn't know the reason why this is a terrible terrible thing is because there
are live wires within that junction box the water would then get so high that it
ran down the inside of the cable sheathing all the way to where the other
so called RV experts had crimp through the cable so I just wanted to say thank
you to Todd for fixing the issue and thank you crossroads your laziness has
cost me both money and time that is one of the many reasons why RV companies
suck