Hammered yet again!

MarkoPolo · 06-04-2015, 07:00 AM

All set to leave this morning for our first trip of the year. Awakened about mid-night with horrific lightning, thunder and yes...hail

. Just checked the Trailmanor and yes....significant denting. Second time in two years.
If you live where hail is possible, it would seem you better have some sort of hard cover shelter or you will pay for it. I have been planning and saving for two years to come up something to cover the TM, but I guess I don't have to worry about it now! I know I am not going to report this one to the insurance company...they took it in the shorts on the last storm.
So, if you you see a 2922KD traveling in Colorado that looks like a golf ball...that's me

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stormpeakco · 06-04-2015, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by MarkoPolo

All set to leave this morning for our first trip of the year. Awakened about mid-night with horrific lightning, thunder and yes...hail

. Just checked the Trailmanor and yes....significant denting. Second time in two years.
If you live where hail is possible, it would seem you better have some sort of hard cover shelter or you will pay for it. I have been planning and saving for two years to come up something to cover the TM, but I guess I don't have to worry about it now! I know I am not going to report this one to the insurance company...they took it in the shorts on the last storm.
So, if you you see a 2922KD traveling in Colorado that looks like a golf ball...that's me

.

Ugh, sorry.
When we were shopping for our TM in CO SPGS this past Jan. there were some used dimpled darlings in the Car Show lot.

LoveToCamp · 06-04-2015, 07:46 AM

So sorry to hear! If you had left a day earlier... Hopefully, all seams and seals are still intact.

oldstick · 06-04-2015, 08:10 AM

You want be the only one, ours was already dimpled when we bought it and since then our 4 year old grandson has put some additional dimples on the side, trying to play "call the woodpecker".

Redtail Cruiser · 06-04-2015, 08:21 AM

Wow, that is unfortunate, Mark, but not surprising with the weather patterns we've been having lately. At least you can travel now without worrying about it.

davlin · 06-04-2015, 08:22 AM

So sorry, Mark. I had mine under cover http://www.trailmanorowners.com/foru...ad.php?t=15027 and still got dimpled all along the curbside of the trailer. As all of us "aluminum can" owners know, you can't "pop" the dents in aluminum, and re-skinning goes over the insurance value of the RV (unless it's a very expensive Class A), so we learn to live with our dimples.

I don't play golf (I shoot little orange dishes that fly through the air) but maybe with dimples like a golf ball, our TMs are now more aerodynamic?

Dave

Padgett · 06-04-2015, 09:09 AM

Haven't experienced yet but hail happens occasionally here (in thutty yar have had more damage from hail than himmicanes). I suspect that a reasonably heavy tarp will cushion/spread the imact "enough".

Must have been a heck of a wind to get damage on the side when under a canopy.

hillbillyhotel · 06-04-2015, 12:38 PM

sorry about the luck mark,

just get you a top flight sticker on but on it, and all will understand

LoveToCamp · 06-04-2015, 01:00 PM

"just get you a top flight sticker"

I love it!!!

MarkoPolo · 06-04-2015, 07:51 PM

Thanks everyone. Not as deep dimples as last time, but more extensive. Put a hole in one sky light as well. Love the top flight sticker idea. The trailer now has character!