Dometic™ AC542 Fold-Down RV Kitchen Sink Faucet - Hot/Cold Mixer Tap

panther was tremendous! ordering process was easy. it arrived VERY quickly. no problem with retailer. just with product.

This is a product from yesteryear. It is beautifully crafted and solid brass. Fits neatly in the round Dometic sink. Wonderful upgrade from the plastic number that came with our trailer. Now we can get the water where we want it!

I purchased the Dometic AC542 Faucet to replace an older Dometic faucet similar to the current Dometic 3313070.001 Galley Faucet. My faucet was supplied with my Columbia Northwest Aliner (model year 2018) and cracked after about 18 months of intermittent use. The faucet I replaced has a female connection on the supply hoses so it not the current 3313070.001 faucet which has male connections. On Amazon, the model 3313070.001 faucet has a number of complaints / low ratings due to the plastic cracking.

I have installed and tested the AC542 faucet. I expect to be completely satisfied with it.

I rated the faucet as 4 stars because the included supply hoses are about 6" shorter than for the faucet I was replacing and that required me to purchase 2 new 20" 1/2" FIP x FIP faucet riser connection hoses to replace the 12" connection hoses supplied with the Aliner. 1/2" FIP x FIP faucet riser hoses are not found at big box store plumbing departments. They are available online, but I was able to go to a specialty plumbing supply business to get mine.

It took me about a day's time over 2 days to figure out how to install the AC542 in my existing Aliner sink. My difficulties in installing it did not contribute to the 4 star rating. The difficult install was because I was unwilling to uninstall the sink in order to make it easy to install the faucet. That would have required disconnecting the sink drain and the cleats that hold the sink to the cabinet and then reconnecting them later. As a result, access to the area below the faucet was extremely cramped.

The install procedure I worked out was:

1) Do not use the foam O ring. (The hole for the faucet in the Aliner is in the press board cabinet top and the O ring would not stay in place.)
2) On the threaded rod, assemble (bottom to top) the nut, metal 'U' washer, rubber 'U' washer.
3) Place the metal ring with the grooves facing up on the top on the hole, poke the threaded rod assembly up from the underside of the cabinet, then screw the top of the threaded rod into the faucet. Tighten the nut as much as possible by hand, insuring the 'U' washers are aligned properly.
4) Using a 13 mm ratcheting box wrench (the rod and nut are metric) tighten the nut securely.
5) Poke the supply hoses thru the hole and tighten them into the faucet body by hand. (Hopefully you got the tightened faucet body centered in the hole).
6) Connect the supply hoses (hot is on the left) to the 1/2" FIP x FIP faucet riser connection hoses and the connection hoses to the hot and cold supply lines.
7) Remove the faucet aerator.
8) Pressurize the water system and flush the lines. Replace the aerator.
9) Turn on and test the hot water.
10) Verify there are no leaks in any of the connections.

I think to do the install again, it would take me about 1.5 hours not counting the time to remove the old faucet and purchase the replacement faucet riser connection hoses.

Replaced the plastic faucet three times This faucet fits and functions better than the original one. Installing the faucet is simple if you remove the sink from the counter.

We bought this faucet for our 2010 Winnebago Via when the old (smaller, cheap, plastic) one failed. It's a larger faucet so we had to be a little 'creative' in how we fit it into place. Also, we ended up having to use different hardware than it was packaged with to install it - perhaps because our sink was designed for the other faucet - but this wasn't too difficult. This faucet is obviously so much nicer ... we're enjoying it and very pleased we got it.

This is a great replacement for the plastic fold down Dometic tap, which is kind of junky. Easy to install. The sink in our Trillium had a one and a half inch hole. But the plastic faucet that the manufacturer installed required a smaller hole and was jammed to the front to make it hold. Bad, bad. The ac542 was the perfect solution. Advice prior to purchase was excellent. Delivery was without a flaw.

Wasn't sure about the product so they took it out of the box and sent me a picture of it from all angles . I was so pleased and they were so friendly , would buy from you again !