I feel for you! Call Lippert if it's a Schwintek slide. Lippert bought Schwintek and the have mobile repair trucks that can come to you!
Our slideout (the big, heavy Schwintek slide with kitchen in it) stuck in the all the way out position and wouldn't come in at all. We were in Michigan's Upper Penninsula and home is central Texas! There was a little RV shop about 1/2 mile down the road. They were not familiar with the slideout and it took them 3 days to get it in, had to remove entire slide mechanism (No easy job) and push it in by hand, axnd brace it with 2x4's. We drove it downstate to large Jayco dealer in Mount Pleasant, MI and after they looked at it, said no way could they fix it, they didn't have the facilities to do it. We called Jayco who said they couldn't look at it even til February! Finally my husband called Lippert in Goshen, Indiana, and they said if we could get it there they could fix it in 2 days! So, took it there. Lippert found that Jayco put too much into the slideout, it was too heavy and these slides were not designed to carry that kind of weight. Also said that Jayco had cut the opening for the slide too large!! Lippert had to shim the walls out and apply lots of extra bracing, both inside and out, in the side of the frame. It is fixed now but only guaranteed for one year. Altogether, we have over $5000 in two separate repairs on this same slide. Our RV in only 3 years old. I don't think we'll keep it another year and certainly won't buy another one with a large Schwintek slide, now that we know the mechanism isn't made to support it. Not very happy with Jayco, that's for sure!
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