Upgrade/Repair for the 360 folding seatback

Gomers2

Overall the 360 is pretty slick, but some of the build aspects are not refined. The passenger side bed folds up to become a bench seat for the dinette. The install is just plain sketchy, a few screws shot into the particle board. Mine lasted a couple months before pulling out. My solution was to remove it all and then bolt the hinges onto the board (said board also serves as the cover for the AC and battery compartment. It is much more stable now, and removal of the cover board no longer requires removal of the seat (the seat remains attached to the board). I flipped the board front to back to get some undamaged wood to work with. Each hinge got two 5mm bolts with nyloc nuts, plus a 4mm bolt (which required a new 4mm hole to be drilled in the hinge plate) and that allows for 3 bolts that are not right on the edge of the plywood sheet. Since the bolt ends protrude past the board it was necessary to drill out some indentations for them in the ledger board with a 3/8" forstner bit. 
 

I also replaced the screws that hold the other side of the hinges to the cushion frame - they were short and loose as well.  And I glued and re-screwed the ledger board that was coming loose around the cavity perimeter.  NuCamp, I'm just going to say the obvious: wouldn't it be easier and cheaper for you to have done this right initially, compared with someone taking it in for warranty service? It's not your first camper, did you really think those screws in particle board were going to hold up?

SLJ

Interesting. One of the things I noticed when I saw first the 360 was it wasn't put together as well as my '21 320. I might have tried T-Nuts with shorter screws to fix that problem.

Trailpixie

I am taking delivery of my 360 in a couple weeks, so you posting is very interesting to me. There is no doubt that this is shoddy workmanship. I will need to check that on my new one. 

On a side note, it doesn't look like what you are showing in the picture is particle board. That looks like plywood which would be considered very high quality for this kind of product--though it obviously isn't good when the screws are so close to the edge.