Forest River Cardinal Electrical problems by year

The thermostat control wire running from my furnace to the AC melted inside the wall. Harper camper land in great bend Ks told the HVAC guys that came out to fix it that they have seen this issue on a lot of campers where it melted the ends of the wires.

Goodyear marathon tires less than 3000 miles, air pressure 80 psi lug nut torqued. Right rear tire blew while driving down ]highway 19 thru ocala national forest at 60 miles per hour. Camper is equipped with tyron straps but still did not prevent tire from tearing fender off, wiring, metal damage,hyd line punctured and fiberglass damage.

Prior to leaving for a trip I plugged our cardinal 3550rl in to an ac outlet to run the fridge. The morning of our departure I found that the 2 rear slide rooms had deployed overnight on their own and would not retract. The slide room pump had run all night and burned the pump out so badly that we could not manually retract the rooms or the landing gear. The transmission fluid was scorched and could have caught fire during the night according to our tech. This could have been catastrophic given the rigs location ....

While driving west between omaha ne and vancouver wa I had two tire failures. The first required purchasing a new tire of a different brand. Damage caused by the second failure is estimated at $3,400 with more possible. And the purchase of 4 replacements as akuret is not available anywhere near where I was traveling. *Tr