I’ve found, and repaired, several “quality “ issues with our Freedom Elite 30FE over the past 3 years.
But, I have now run across a quality (in design and build) that I cannot figure out how to fix.
In other posts I have made, I discussed issues with air conditioning and air flow, but I never addressed why the flow coming out of some of the left hand vents was less than the right hand vents.
I now know why.
I removed several vents from each side and poked my iPhone camera up into the holes.
On the right hand side of the RV, the ducts look like this.
The ducts, one that runs the length of the vehicle on each side of the RV, are molded into the ceiling insulation. The sides and top are a styrofoam type material. The bottom of the duct is the ceiling panel. Holes are cut in the ceiling panel for the vents.
On the left hand side, air flow is fine for the vents forward of the bathroom, but the bathroom vent and one in the bedroom had significantly less flow.
When I removed the vent in the bathroom and poked the iPhone camera up into it, looking forward, I saw this:
I thought, why in the heck is foam blocking 2/3 of the duct?
I then noticed the location of the shower skylight. The inboard edge of the skylight falls almost in the center of the air conditioning duct. When I removed the bezel from the skylight, I could see, and feel air coming out of the outboard edge of the duct.
The foam I was seeing inside the duct was under the inboard edge of the skylight.
I see no easy way of trimming back some of that foam without major rework of the ceiling. I don’t think I want to dive into that..
For me this is pi$$ poor design and workmanship.
Oh, when I removed the skylight bezel, I found that only 4 of the 8 screws that were supposed to hold it in place were actually screwed into structure.
I Find it hard to believe that a company can put out junk like this.
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