I was up on my roof a couple weeks back cleaning.
Notice that with my new clearance lights, I have water in them again.
I knew that I would so i was not surprised, since the fixtures themselves are a horrible design!
I looked and looked and never really found any sealed LED clearance lights that I thought might easily replace the factory ones while nicely covering up all the screw and wire holes up there....
So my idea, I'll throw out for brainstorming purposes....
I was thinking a fix might be this.
Once I find some suitable replacement fixtures
I might try to find some good sheet material.... I'm thinking like some sheet FRP, or some HDPE or something.... something that I could hopefully get in a color close to or complementary to the grey color on my coach....
Then epoxy the sheet across the whole area, sealing in all the old screw holes, scratches from the dealers and my efforts to remove and reseal, etc....
giving me a clean surface to mount lights to.
And on another note for brainstorming, I have come to notice taht almost all commercial trucks use these recessed fixtures taht pop into a rubber gasket. Even used on u-haul trailers and such.
I wonder if these are a better solution....
like this
your thoughts?
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