Roof Front Vibrates on Trailer

[Highdesert]

Just brought it home few days ago. The front 3 or so inches of the roof was vibrating in the wind while I pulled it home, doesn’t look good . Trailer is level . Any thoughts on this?

 

[Icehog]

Noticed the same thing on mine, I've trailered mine for about 600 miles without any problems.

 

[BADXP]

Same here. Don’t love it but haven’t seemed to have had any issues from it either.

 

[johndeerefarmer]

I am afraid mine will end up breaking off on our long trips from TX to CO. I think I am going to put a ratchet strap on mine from front to back and see if that helps

 

[Highdesert]

I Need to stiffen up that front lip with something

 

[johndeerefarmer]

I Need to stiffen up that front lip with something

If the ratchet strap idea doesn't work I am going to try and stiffen mine up. Maybe take a piece of hardwood, paint it black and screw it to the underside of that lip

 

[Highdesert]

If the ratchet strap idea doesn't work I am going to try and stiffen mine up. Maybe take a piece of hardwood, paint it black and screw it to the underside of that lip

I was thinking of something along those same lines maybe aluminum

 

[johndeerefarmer]

I was thinking of something along those same lines maybe aluminum

Maybe a piece of square or rectangular aluminum from Lowes- painted black

 

[Highdesert]

Maybe a piece of square or rectangular aluminum from Lowes- painted black

I bet some vent holes would work too, I just can’t bring myself to try it

 

[Keyster]

Coming from a General, it was a common roof issue. Some have made a bracket, but not sure if this would work on an XPedition. ROOF ON MY 2020 GENERAL

 

[DRK47]

I had the same concerns.
I added a 1/8"x 3/4" x 26" long aluminum flat bar pop riveted to the underside of the leading edge to strengthen it.
This has helped quite a bit.
I have trailered my ADV2 from Yuma, AZ to Idaho, Utah and many other locations with no problems .

 

[Jackncoke]

Here’s what I did, just drilled down through the roof into the sheet metal above the windshield. Made a couple bushings and ran a bolt thru it. Way solid now, just gotta paint bolts and washers.

 

[DRK47]

I am going to add your fix to give more support to my aluminum flat bar install as noted in my post above...

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