In July 2001 I bought a Granby directly from the factory in Woodland. Apparently the company had just changed hands. While generally it was a great camper, there were a number of little nagging things, like a cheap icebox which they replaced with a better cheap icebox, and gooey goo seeping out of the stitching in the pop-up. The roof screws needed to be sealed so it now looks like bird droppings all over the roof. Since then the ceiling headliner material has disintegrated, the back door window has dropped down an inch or two and the window screen keeps falling off. Otherwise it's a great camper.
Has anybody else had this kind of experience and what have you done about it?
As a newbie to this forum I'm not sure how you do things but after researching the disintegrating headliner issue, I think I'm in a position to answer my own post.
During June of 2007 there was a thread on the subject which concluded that "Unfortunately the material used for the headliner in the FWC campers for about an 8 month period back in late 2000 and early 2001 was a bad material. " [Ben Bennett]
I ordered mine in the spring and took delivery in June of 2001 so probably got the last of the bad material, just as Tom Hanagan was taking over.
Later discussions agree that the present material is excellent but there is a difference of opinion on whether or not the roof must be dismantled to install it. Now I'm thinking, after 8 years maybe there are some other things that should be done to the roof at the same time. So I have a new question; is there still an outfit in Southern California that does this kind of work? Or any other ideas/recommendations?
