Slide-out jack stabilizers. Good or bad?

brubri wrote:
I'm wondering about the use of slide-out stabilizers. Will they bend the slide-out supports over time?

If you have the older '60s/'70s trailer with a tip out or pull out as we called them back then you will need the stabilizers to hold them in position.

There is a market for them as some folks have a older trailer that requires them.

Our newer slide outs use a gear or hyd drive that keeps the slide out lip tight against the gasket around the hole in the wall.

Some trailer mfg warn not to use them for obvious reasons that have been mentioned.

I've had a Skyline and a Fleetwood and a Thor made 5th wheel trailers and all three owners manual says there not recommended nor are they needed.

The slideout stabilizers are still marketed.....for a reason.