Heavy highway rain comes up through slideout
New High County 293RK. After traveling in some real heavy rain, with lots of splash and blowing water, we had wet carpet in the kitchen slideout. This carpet is very close to the edge of the floor, only about 6 inches inside the trailer wall, and just sticks out a little past the slide out floor when it is extended. Looking underneath the slideout there appears to be a shelf type affair likely intended to help stop this type of blow by getting past the slide out floor and into the RV. The splashing rain would have to swirling pretty good to get past it, but it did so twice. Photo attached.
Anyone else seen this and have any suggestions?
I'm thinking of adding a little lip to that shelf like device to close if off some more. Very little clearance at all between edge of shelf and outside slide out wall when closed, so hard to see how water got through, but it did. Slowing to under 35 mph or so might be the only preventative, if even that would work. My speed was about 50 at most during the storm.
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2017 Silverado 4WD crewcab SRW longbed diesel
2015 Montana High Country 293 RK
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