Welcome to the forums and congrats on picking up your Premier. I hope it serves you well and you have many happy adventures with it.
I'm somewhat surprised to see silicon was used on your camper. Normally, silicon is not a good choice of sealers for the roof or for sealing around the windows and doors and anything else connected to the outside of the trailer. Silicon ages quickly and decorates and then peals off. It definitely not good for the rubber roof.
The silicon will not hurt anything on the sides of the trailer, it just doesn't hold up do it is exposure to the outside elements. But on the roof, it will deteriorate the rubber.
If you use anything, use Dicor Lap Sealant. There are 2 kinds, the self-leveling used on the roof and flat surfaces which is a thinner mix made to flatten out with gravity, and then the normal which is thicker, holds its shape and is used on vertical surfaces.
If you pull a running light, remove a window or the door frame, remove the air conditioner, any of the vents on the roof, or have to replace anything on the side or top of the camper, then use Butyl tape. This is putty in the form of a long flat rope. You lay your length down and then put the object on top of it and then secure the object to the surface. This stuff squishes and seals. The only problem with this stuff is it catches dirt over. So after a couple years, it doesn't look "new" any more.
I wouldn't worry about the graphics. Simply trim the graphic where the sealer overlaps and let it go. Messing with stuff in an attempt to make things look better or to somehow "improve" it can actually cause more issues and bigger problems than simply leaving things as they are.
Thank-you for your service. I was in the Army from 1982 to 1988. I served during the great, great war in Grenada! Actually.... the entire thing happened and I didn't even know it was going on. I was at Fort Devens, Mass in a support position. That was (then) home of the special forces guys. Those guys would simply disappear for a few weeks and then return. When I'd ask my friends where they went, they said we went to Grenada. I asked, "What happened?" They said, "Well, we had a night landing. We landed on the beach and then all of a sudden lights turned on everywhere. Here we were, low crawling in the sand on the beach and the lights came on. We were surrounded by news media videoing our landing!" He said, they didn't even know where they were going until after they were in the air in flight, and then they were briefed on what the mission was. Yet, the news media knew about the landing, the time, location, and the mission before they did! That was my first knowledge of Grenada myself.
Oh well, the time served was during a "declared war" and that made me eligible to become a member of the American Legion. (I did go to Korea later also and have some interesting memories visiting the 38th parallel .... DMZ though.)
Again, thanks for following a great, worthy, and honorable tradition in your service!
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