Steve & Deb
Adventurist
The Ensuite shower enclosure will be here tomorrow so for now it will stay in the box.
Quick Pitch? A word of warning if you have the aluminum box version (and probably applicable to the bag version as well.)
Since we haven't been anywhere we've needed it this year, I haven't opened mine in many months. It lives on the 4Runner outside here in Ohio. I was fiddling with the truck the other day, and decided to open it up to air out, and found a lot of moisture inside! No standing water; more like condensation on all of the interior surfaces. But worse, all of the pivot point bolts and the washers under the pop-rivets are quite rusty!
I can't believe that they don't use stainless steel fasteners at this price point. I'll be replacing them all with stainless parts, but to make matters worse, the pivot bolts in the main assembly (attached to the aluminum box) are installed from the top, requiring the entire assembly to be removed from said aluminum box. And it's all held in with pop rivets. So, I'll need to drill out the rivets, replace all of the fasteners, and reassemble with stainless rivets I have left over from my old sailboat. Grrrr...
The aluminum zipper pulls were somewhat corroded, too, which is surprising. The box's seals all look to be in great shape, and there's no indication of leakage, so I don't know how it got so wet inside. Must just be seeping through the seals at the top (hinge-side) that's not adjustable like the clamps on the bottom side. Fortunately, the fabric and zippers (other than the pulls) are all fine, with no mildew or smell. I'll definitely need to keep an eye on it more in the future. Well, I hope to be using it more in the future, too...
So, just a word of warning to keep an eye on yours.