Trailer Suspension Upgrade / Help

Poppy's 5th Wheel wrote:
We love our 5th wheel. Well, for the most part anyway. I'll say this right off the bat, I would never buy another rear kitchen model. It seems most every trip we take something in the kitchen breaks. We've had this trailer for almost 4 years when we bought it new. I have replaced/repaired every shelf in all the rear cabinets which the shelves (crappy thin luan) all broke through. We now open the fridge very, very slowly to catch anything falling out before it hits the floor and breaks because all the shelves in the door and often the wire shelves come loose. This time a door shelf broke and beer bottles fell and broke the glass piece that covers the crisper leaving shattered glass everywhere. I have modified shelves in the pantry so that nothing actually sits on the new plywood reinforced shelves but rather in wire baskets.

We're tired of it. I would trade this trailer that we otherwise love if it were at all financially possible but it isn't. So I'm looking for any recommendations and advise from those who may have upgraded their 5th wheel's suspension. What works and what is a waste of money?

The trailer has Trailaire Equalizers stock from Keystone which I'm certain must be the cheapest piece they could have provided. Is it worth anything to upgrade that to an aftermarket unit? Which one?

I was big on adding shocks but I've read so much good and bad about adding them I'm unsure. There's not much room in there for a shock setup that I would see making much difference. I do really like the look of this system, http://www.rvimprovementsystems.com/index.html, but at $600???

Anyway, I was just hoping to see if anyone has some real world experience to help me decide if anything I do would actually help smooth out the ride and preserve the peace :)

TIA

If you're in this FW for the long term, look at the MorRyde Independent Suspension system. Not cheap, but cheaper than a new FW. I have no direct experience with them, but pretty much everything I've read gives it good reviews. There's an air suspension system available, too. I can only =ass=ume that is even more expensive. At minimum, you should spring for the shocks.

Lyle