Design your coaches for four seasons (aka SNOW)

[Neal]

Newmar, your coaches are not year round friendly. Where you are you know there is snow and snow and Newmar coaches do not work for many reasons. For this I hope you will improve your design so that your wonderfully insulated and heated coaches can go anywhere.

1. Slide toppers do not work with snow. They don't roll up when a slide retracts, they fold up, they ice up, they are an epic disaster. Threads come out, they tear. You need to rethink this or even do away with slide toppers altogether.
2. RV's in the north use heated fresh water lines. They have a blue hose contraption that plugs in and connects between the coach and city water connection, which is heated. My suggestion is to offer a separate inlet for a fresh line connection to fill the fresh tank that could be used with a heated water line separate from the city water reel. This could also offer a manual fill opportunity for those boondocking that bring in jugs of water as currently you need a pump setup to get water from other sources from jugs, bladders, etc. to the fresh tank. For heated water lines offer an outlet to power the heated line from the coach side as the campground may be using up the power connection to heat their city water piping.

Newmars are great but all climate usage seems to be short sighted.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

First party should be in AZ.
Second party should be in AZ.
Third and final party should be in AZ.

Have you seen what happens with cars that people try to use up north four season? who would want to do that to their 500,000 buck RV?

 

[Webz]

Don't have to worry about snow on the toppers as far as break/collapse. There are usually several wraps of material around the spring loaded roller. When the topper gets weight, it unwraps from the roller. Don't ask how I know. Now the wind is another story. Was in New Mexico and encountered 70 mph wind that billowed up the topper and pulled the roller bracket partially out of the FWS.

Here is what happens when snow piles up on a topper. After the snow melts or is removed by the owner spring loaded roller on the slide out will tighten the topper with no damage. The topper may stretch some but adjusting the tension will correct it. The topper resting on top of the slide prevents too much stretching/strain on the topper.