T-2670 entry door replacement?

[Jeff-Bob]

the entry door on my camper is shot, separated all along the bottom seam. I'd like to get a replacement. Are there used ones? T-2670 Solaris

 

[JohnGB]

Hi, what year camper? And better, any chance you can post a few pictures? We can see the door style and the damage to help better. The doors changed as the years went by.

Pending the year and style, yes, you can buy an all-new door unit, but you can also rebuild the old door, again pending the style, as many of our members have rebuilt them for hundreds of dollars less than an all-new door unit.

We can help with both, all new and how to rebuild what you have, but we need to know what you have now.

I hope this helps.

John

 

[Jeff-Bob]

It took me some time to reply. This camper is parked on property that is 100 miles from where I live.
Visited my land yesterday to take a couple pictures and found that not only has the door skin separated (I knew) but I found the bottom piece of the door frame laying on the ground.
Digging into documents I found vehicle registration showing this to be 1994 year's model.
A used door is what I would like to find.

 

[JohnGB]

Hi,

OK, now we know the type of door you have from the one picture. If you are interested, I can find the post with pictures of how many have rebuilt that door style. Rebuilding what you have is an option if that works on your end.

Finding a used door made the same as the one for sale, even if used, will be hard. You might find something if a salvage yard deals with old campers for parts. The issue is that it will be old, and that door style was prone to the wood frame inside the door rotting out.

The top corners of the door are square. Is that correct? That makes it even harder to find a supply of them used or in a surplus shop.

Most new campers have radius-top doors, and RV surplus places sell complete door units at very low cost compared to brand new. The surplus doors are new leftovers from the manufacturer.

New square-corner doors do exist for purchase. You get the entire door and frame. To start the hunt for one of these, the door units go by the wall rough opening, not the physical door that swings open. You will have to look inside the camper if there is any trim molding inside that you can lift, or at the bottom of the door, at the floor, to get a width and then a height of the rough opening.

Ebay does have some for sale, and in some cases, they are very cheap as they are new surplus, but again, they need to be the right size, and Ebay's listings change frequently.

I hope this helps.

John

 

[Jeff-Bob]

Thank you John
If you can find previous thread(s) about repairing doors of this vintage I would like to read. It sounds like a reconstruction may be the best option.
Thanks JeffBob

 

[JohnGB]

This is one post with many pics of the whole rebuild process, as HandiJohn1 did his. There are three pages of replies with many pics of the process. He had some picture posting issues early in the thread, but after a few tries, they all started showing up.

T2262 Door rebuild

There are many other posts, just not many pictures, as I recall. HandiJohn1's post has the most pics I know of/can remember. However, the other posts may also help, as the approach is different for whoever does it. In my signature, there is a link to a "Sunline Owners Club Google Custom Search" feature; you can click it, giving you a text box. Then search on the words "Entry door rebuild," and you can read a lot about door rebuilds. Our Admin made us use Google Custom Search a long time ago, and it finds things that the forum's embedded software does not seem to find. You can bookmark that link and use it in the future.

I hope this helps. Consider creating a post on how you do your rebuild to help others in the future. This is a common topic among the older campers.

John