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Provide your RV screen door reinforcement with this adjustable Screen Door Cross Bar. Attaches to the screen door frame with the included hardware and acts as a sturdier handle for exiting the trailer, allowing you to avoid screen wear and tear.
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Today we'll be taking a look at the Camco RV screen door crossbar. The one we're working with today is in black, part number CAM42188. It's also available in white, part number CAM42189. Reinforce your camper or RV screen door and make entry and exit a delight. The Camco RV screen door crossbar adds a stylish look to your RV while firming up your screen door. It's made with a durable aluminum construction, and it's adjustable to fit a wide variety of screen doors.
It expands out to twenty-eight and five eighths of an inch long and retracts down to 20 and three quarters of an inch long. It's an easy installation with the included hardware. Providing a solid place to push or pull, it's going to ensure that your screen door lasts a long time. Now that we've gone over the features, I'll go ahead and show you how to get it installed. First thing we need to do is determine our location for our crossbar. We're going to put ours right about here.
Just where our screen door starts. I'm going to line it up and make sure it bumps up to the very edge of our door on both sides, so I'll need to do is telescope the brackets out a little bit. Right, and then when I've got it in the right location, I can grab my marker and mark out my holes. Then once we have those marked out, we can grab our crossbar, and we're going to turn it over and we're going to mark the wholes here and there. Perfect, so then we can take our brackets off, and we're going to drill a pilot hole in each one of those holes to put our brackets back on and then run our hardware through. That's to ensure the brackets don't scoot in or our when we're replacing it on the screen door.
We're not going to be going all the way through, we're just going to go though the first layer and then we've got it. Now with our holes drilled out, we can replace our brackets. We'll put them on, we'll make sure our holes line up. That looks pretty good. Then we can grab two screws of our hardware and run those through.
Now I'm using a low torque setting screw gun, that way I don't strip them out. Now we can just repeat that process on the other side. Now with our crossbar assembled, we can turn our attention back to our screen door, and draw out pilot holes for our marked holes here. Now just be sure we're not going to go all the way through the screen door, we're just getting started because it is hollow. Now with those last four holes drilled out, we can take our crossbar and our remaining hardware and go ahead and fasten that down. Perfect, and let's get a completer look at the Camco RV screen door crossbar.
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 out of 5 stars (136 Customer Reviews)
Provide your RV screen door reinforcement with this adjustable Screen Door Cross Bar. Attaches to the screen door frame with the included hardware and acts as a sturdier handle for exiting the trailer, allowing you to avoid screen wear and tear.The screen door cross bar arrived with one of the plastic mounting brackets broken off at the mounting hole. The package was previously opened and taped close. I thought about super glue but got what I wanted from Camping World. To be fair the other items in the box were in excellent condition and I ordered air bags since and everything arrived with no problem
Works exactly as described. Very simple install.
Fell off my truck on the way home. So can’t tell you anything. But I have ordered two more sight unscene.
Works OK, would have liked a sturdier set up so you could use the bar as a aid when entering the RV.
Good Product, fast delivery, easy to in stall
This is the second one of these I had. The first was previously mounted on our Wildcat 5th wheel and liked it so much I put one on our recently purchased Jayco. The only reason for dropping one star, is the cheap basically license plate bolts it comes with. I drilled 13/64" holes for them since they are self-tapping and one of the heads snapped off halfway in and I had to drill it out.......arrgghh! Admittedly it was cold out so the steel was brittle but was still aggravating. Then I got smart and went to the hardware store and got some automotive body bolts and nuts to mount it since I could get the the inside (see pic).
Not received yet, but we've had one before. I'm sure it will be just as good.
Installed the handle with ease. Wife likes it (which is good). Every RV screen door should have this handle to prevent damage as they are easily damaged by grabbing the door's cross section to close the door.
The product works great for my screen door on my RV. Its sturdy and the installation was very easy to do. I recommend this product to every RV owner.
Great add-on to any RV, provides added accessibility to screen door without obstruction to latch. eTrailer offered great price with low cost shipping.
excellent. no issues at all!
Great product. Super fast delivery and I loved the email confirmations for both when the item was shipped and when the item was delivered. I will definitely use etrailer.com for future purchases.
The screen door cross bar was a great addition to our camper and has really changed the way we open and close the screen door. However, some people still think it's a load-supporting handle and can take them putting all their weight on it to help them up the stairs. :(
This item came well packaged and on time. And after opening the package and reading the directions, I figured out it would be simpler just to follow my own instincts, and installation was quite easy and it looks great. Installation time was about 10 minutes.
Best piece of after market equipment we have ever purchased. Makes going in and out of our 5th wheel door effortless. Was very inconvenient trying to go through door with full hands of whatever. Now we can shut the door from the inside with one finger touch. We love this product and it was so easy to install.
We saw this in another camper and through some searching, finally found it. It was shipped quickly after I ordered it and I didn't ask for above standard shipping! It was easily to install too - the only tip I would add is to check to make sure that you have it positioned correctly on the door frame or you may find that your door won't close. We almost set ours out to the edges when we marked it - but thankfully we decided to double check the door closure before we drilled the mounting holes. Once we installed it, we found it to be great to grab to shut the screen door - no more fighting the plastic door slide on those windy days!!
I bought 2 cross bars for front & rear doors on my Jayco Camper. I had to shorten the bar for the rear door, but the front fit just fine. They really add security, and strength when opening, and something to grab onto when closing. Quite a few of my friends, and camping neighbors saw the bars, and liked how they worked.
This is our second purchase of this product. I installed the first one last year and loved it. I installed the second bar lower on the same screen door for my little grandkids to use. It's perfect for these tiny people to get in and out of the camper. It should make it safer and easier for them. It should also prevent them and our two dogs from going through the screen on the door.
The directions that came with it was... well let's say my way worked better for me.
Shipping was fast
Works as described. Easy to install.
Seems like a quality product at a very reasonable price. Installation on a 2017 Rpod 179 was relatively straightforward, but does require elongation of the rear bolt hole, which I expected from what I had read online. Happily I believed the measurements from the video, rather than the provided specs, which are quite different.
I am a repeat customer of etrailer and think they are a great company. In making this decision, however, I looked at several product videos and supposedly matching specs, only to find that a couple did not match up at all. Fixing this is a no-brainer. Get to it etrailer. Great company - I don't mind saying it again.
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