Adjustable cargo bar

[Brad Barnes]

I have a 2009 Beaver Contessa 42' and found this cargo Bar in the closet but have never figured out what it designed to be used for, anyone have any ideas?

One end has a pad and the other end has a slotted screw. It is adjustable in length.

Thanks for any help.

[David T. Richelderfer]

Perhaps a map, paper and/or book holder-desk thingy in front of the co-pilot's seat?

[Bill Sprague]

You didn't say how long it is or post a picture, but some RVers use things like that to keep slides from drifting out.  Some also use them to hold extended slides from "drooping" when extended. 

Can you post a photo?

[Stan Simpson]

We use a similar item, a shower curtain rod, that is adjustable, with pads on each end, to keep our bedroom closet doors from sliding open while traveling. The slide mechanisms that fasten the doors at the bottom and the plastic cabinet latches for the middle of the doors are continually breaking, or the screws come loose.

Perhaps its a 'home made solution' for the same problem.

[Dan Murphy]

I believe this bar may be used to keep the road side slide from extending. I have one also and I have never had to use and hope I never do!

[David T. Richelderfer]

So it's better described as a rod... like a clothes hanging rod?  Perhaps it was used to partition across the interior of the coach immediately behind the pilot's and co-pilot's seats so that the dash air conditioning breeze is held into the smaller front space... and therefore does a better job of cooling the occupied space while traveling.  A curtain rod is placed high across the top edges of the living room slides and a shower curtain or blanket is draped over the curtain rod.

[LaMonte Monnell]

I believe this bar may be used to keep the road side slide from extending. I have one also and I have never had to use and hope I never do!

I use a bar on my living area slideout as I had the slide open all the way on a right hand turn. It scared the crap out of me for sure. A shop worked on a hyd jack and never refilled the fluid tank. Now I always put it in place.

[Larry Fisk]

While traveling to Alaska one year our closet clothes hanging bar middle support broke. Our closet goes the length of the back of the coach.We used one of these cargo bars to hold the center support up until we could get it repaired permanently by Davis Cabinets. Maybe it was being used to keep that from happening in your coach.
Larry Fisk

[Mike Humble]

When we took delivery of our 2008 Contessa I was told it was to hold the driver side front slice in and was a requirement for travel in Canada.
Mike

[Don and Kathy DuCharme]

When we took delivery of our 07 Contessa we were told the same thing as Mike.  It was to hold the front slide closed while traveling. We, also, have never used it and hope we never find it necessary to do so. As a side, I have found it useful to hold the bed up when filling or emptying the storage space or working on the bedroom slide mechanism.
Don

[Larry Fisk]

This requirement in Canada must be something new. We have traveled through Canada 6 times and never heard of this requirement nor were we ever asked about it at the border checks. A good friend of mine who transported coaches to Alaska for years for his business, Kenai Coach is also unaware of this requirement. I’m not saying it’s not true but if it is it’s certainly not enforced.
Regards,
Larry Fisk

[Robin Goffrier]

I purchased my 08, 42 Contessa from Beaver Coach and do not have anything like what you describe.  Or, if I do I've yet to find it. How long is it?

[Joel Ashley]

After checking their website for the rule and failing to find one, I put that Canadian regulation notion to the Canadian RVDA.  They never heard of such an animal, and neither had the dealers they questioned.  I’m inclined to think it doesn’t exist, and that whoever told Mike that was misinformed.

Joel