B190 Enthusiasts

Hello! Well, after months of reading posts about water making its way into the top bunk area, we realized it had finally happened to us. We noticed the damp today while doing some spring cleaning under the mattress.

I dreaded looking for the cause of the the brown water marks, but one thing led to another and soon we were pulling up the particle board and the carpet. The insulation was wet and there were puddles right there, resting on top of the fiberglass.



Luckily, like most others, we confirmed that the leaks definitely came from the two sliding windows on either side of the fiberglass top.

But even luckier was that the previous owners kept several "service bulletins" that Airstream addressed to dealerships on how to deal with b190 issues. (Does anyone else have any of these?) And one bulletin describes the leaky side windows and the instructions for fixing them.

The instructions are very clear, and it sure beats the cost of taking it to a shop. It only requires Sikaflex and mineral spirits, and according to the bulletin, a time allowance of "1.3 hours per window". Doable? We sure are going to try.

We thought we would share the bulletin in case others would like to attempt the repair themselves, as we will be doing tomorrow! We will try to post updates on the process.

Melissa and Edd


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Thank you! Great Post!

Thank you for posting this. Very helpful.

If you have other technical service bulletins for the b190, please post all of them!

Keystone


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What year are they referring to when it started as a manufacturer error?

Ricci wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:36 pm

What year are they referring to when it started as a manufacturer error?

They specified it by the build number (last 6 digits of the Airstream VIN). But given the date, February 1995, it might even reach back to '93.

Thank you! Would this pertain to my 98 or would it have been sorted out by then.

Ricci wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:57 pm

Thank you! Would this pertain to my 98 or would it have been sorted out by then.

Hopefully sorted by then (bulletin was in '95, yours is a '98, so it'd be 3 years after they knew of the problem). You can tell by the build number - see what the last six digits of your Airstream VIN are.