Trailair Rusting

MPI_Mallard wrote:
I want to start out by saying I love My Trailair pinbox and our Center-point Air-ride System and have and will recommend them in the future, now that our Trailair is 10 years old now and even though we cover it it's starting to rust out on top quite badly.

I called Lippert and spoke to their head warranty guy who was anything but helpful and after telling me that I was only the second person to complain about this issue (yeah right!) of how there is a lack of drain holes so that water cannot collect in the square area on top and to the rear of the pinbox and cause all this rusting

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I was further reminded that if I was to drill drain holes myself that I would void any warranty they would cover so at that point I asked if I should then just let it continue to rust out until it failed??


I'm wondering if anyone else has had this issue and what they did, I myself plan to dis-mantle it, have it media-blasted and re-paint it and drill some appropriate drain holes to remedy the situation!

BTW,, The guy who suggested sticking a beach-ball in the back of the pin-box and inflating it to keep the birds out is a bloody genius!!!!

Red Green: "Vegetarian" is an old Indian word meaning "I don't hunt so good."

I must have been the other guy that complained because I called several years ago with the exact same issue. I just decided to drill a weep hole and that took care of the problem for me. You just need a 1/4" hole at the low point in the front of the box to keep it dry. Check it periodically to keep it free from crud plugging it up.