Yeah, just wait until the tape lets go and your aluminum skins start popping off. Then you can listen to the manufacturers give you excuses as to why it happened. The truck conversion manufacturers are using you as an expensive experiment. Good luck. Been there, done it and have been paying the price for the last 3 years. As an example, take a look at the way your sheet aluminum roof buckles when it heats up. Is the aluminum skin on the walls different than the roof? When it gets hot, it needs to move. Since it can't move up and down, it pushes it's way out and pops itself off the super magnificent tape. Then it cools and goes back in place, but the damage is already done and after several times, the tackiness is gone from the tape. The fact that the body also racks and rolls when you're raising it on the jacks and simply driving down the road doesn't help either. Listen to all those creaking and cracking noises. Where do you think all those noises are coming from? I'd love to strip all the aluminum skin from one of these rigs and take a look at the welds on the framing. If you're able to look at a rig under construction, look at the welds. Most don't have any penetration and are just held together by the filler material. In other words, a lot of the frame is simply tacked together, especially the basement storage tubing.
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