Storage Door love

surfsup1955 · June 24, 2018, 12:40:13 PM

Quote from: MitchB on June 22, 2018, 10:07:13 AM
2013 13 QBB this sticker is on the rear outside door.

Oh wow! Thanks for that info. Not sure KZ can work with it specifically for my camper but it does give me some info as to who might be making these doors? My dealer was pretty certain they were contracted out..

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surfsup1955 · June 24, 2018, 02:00:29 PM

Hey Mitch, yep that's the same door as mine and it looks like Challenger Door is still alive and well, so I'll contact them tomorrow. Thanks again!

Ale

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MitchB · June 25, 2018, 09:22:34 AM

Glad to help, good luck!

surfsup1955 · June 27, 2018, 08:15:08 AM

Talked with a sales rep yesterday at Challenger Door, Tina, very nice lady!

The 200 series doors that are on all Livinlite campers are the cheapest doors that Challenger makes. The large storage door on my 21RBS is only $80-100 to replace and that includes the new lock, paint matching of the panel, panel framing and the outer mounting frame. Yes, you have to replace it all - they don't sell the door panel as a replacement part.

So after some discussion with Tina, I decided to replace mine with the 301 series. It's a little beefier, 2 locks, with wider frames. Also thinking about getting it with the hinge on the bottom instead of on top? I'll post the final price once I get it ordered.

The company shuts down next week, so it'll be mid July before they can get the new door to me.

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surfsup1955 · June 27, 2018, 03:19:21 PM

Pulled the door and frame out today to get the actual rough measurements of the wall hole and found this on the back of the door frame along the bottom, just out of site.

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surfsup1955 · July 26, 2018, 05:08:10 PM

The 301 is installed $155 shipped.

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surfsup1955 · July 26, 2018, 05:17:46 PM

Comparison picture of the 200 series..

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tt2retire · October 05, 2019, 03:48:55 PM

Thanks for all the info. nice to know if my storage doors fail, I could buy a better replacement.

Mine doors are still in good shape (2016 21BHS), but I notice that the driver passthru storage door collects more water (i.e. drips when I open it) than the other two. The dinette storage door has weather stripping on it such that when the door is closed, the weather stripping is squeezed between the two sides of the hinge. I'm trying an experiment to add the weather stripping to the two passthru storage doors to see if helps.

Three pics attached:
1. Dinette door corner with old weather stripping
2. Weather stripping I'm using
3. Passthru door corner with new weather stripping

It is slightly harder to close the passthru doors, but over time I'm expecting that weather stripping will compress down as it did on the dinette door.