Has anyone here ever had damage to your rig -- pickup with camper mounted on it -- from driving on very rough roads?
"Rough" could be bad washboard or rock-studded roads or deeply potholed roads -- road features that can severely jar/vibrate the rig.
"Damage" is mainly asking about truck damage, since the camper is so much simpler...though I guess there could be hidden damage to the camper frame...or something that might happen at either end of the camper-mounting turnbuckles..
I'm asking about personal experience -- happened to you or someone in your party, not something you heard/read about.
I just got back from a camping trip that included quite a bit of rough road -- bad washboard and rock-studded dirt and driving directly on rough bedrock...and I don't always drive gently...
...and though my truck and camper are still fine, AFAIK...as I was vibrating/bumping/banging along out there, at times it crossed my mind to wonder how much stress -- "punishment" -- my truck and camper can reasonably handle.
So I'm just asking -- kinda like a poll -- if anything bad has happened to anyone here driving in similar circumstances -- ??
A related question: Might there be any "effects" (things that need attention but aren't obvious to me) that happened on my rough-road driving trip that I or a mechanic could/should check for? Maybe things that aren't damaged but just loose, for example? Suggestions for what to check?
(This topic could go in the "Trucks, Truck Accessories..." forum, but posting it here in hopes of limiting input to experience with pickups with campers mounted on them...not horror stories of trucks/4X4s in general or passenger cars on roads they shouldn't be.)
Thanks!
"Rough" could be bad washboard or rock-studded roads or deeply potholed roads -- road features that can severely jar/vibrate the rig.
"Damage" is mainly asking about truck damage, since the camper is so much simpler...though I guess there could be hidden damage to the camper frame...or something that might happen at either end of the camper-mounting turnbuckles..
I'm asking about personal experience -- happened to you or someone in your party, not something you heard/read about.
I just got back from a camping trip that included quite a bit of rough road -- bad washboard and rock-studded dirt and driving directly on rough bedrock...and I don't always drive gently...
...and though my truck and camper are still fine, AFAIK...as I was vibrating/bumping/banging along out there, at times it crossed my mind to wonder how much stress -- "punishment" -- my truck and camper can reasonably handle.
So I'm just asking -- kinda like a poll -- if anything bad has happened to anyone here driving in similar circumstances -- ??
A related question: Might there be any "effects" (things that need attention but aren't obvious to me) that happened on my rough-road driving trip that I or a mechanic could/should check for? Maybe things that aren't damaged but just loose, for example? Suggestions for what to check?
(This topic could go in the "Trucks, Truck Accessories..." forum, but posting it here in hopes of limiting input to experience with pickups with campers mounted on them...not horror stories of trucks/4X4s in general or passenger cars on roads they shouldn't be.)
Thanks!