Grease in New Brake Assemblies
I post this due to the number of complaints I have read on at least two forums where grease has been found in brand new brake assemblies on new trailers. The owners usually report little or no brake ...
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fj12ryder wrote:
Yes, I'm serious. Would you buy a new car/truck and immediately pull the rear differential off to check for an issue if you'd read about problems with them from the dealer? Or would you hie yourself back to the dealer to have it checked and fixed?
Paying tens of thousands of dollars for a new unit and then playing shade tree mechanic makes little to no sense to me. If I paid for a brand new $50,000 5th wheel, then yes, I expect them to fix the problems that came from the factory.
I see no reason to give the dealers/manufacturers a free ride when they screw up. That's the way I look at it.
To answer your first question regarding comparing these pieces of rolling******to the build quality of todays cars. Nope I would not pull the wheels off a new car to verify integrity of brake performance but then there have not been the myriad discussions with examples popping up all over the web of cars being provided with axles with cheap or poorly installed seals and marginal braking performance like there has been for RV's.
Second part; I agree wholeheartedly with requiring responsibility, but here you have just read another post where the owner returned his for service on three occasions without the expected result before repairing it himself. You willing to sacrifice a month or two of prime RV season while you're standing on your soapbox at the service desk?
I'm making the point that if you have the skillset AND are dissatisfied or unconvinced that your dealer is capable, DO IT YOURSELF! This in lieu of simply striking out on your maiden voyage without verifying your brakes expected performance is reliable.
