New Enclosed Trailer, damaged by dealership
Hello- new member needing advice. I just bought a brand new enclosed trailer last weekend (picked up @ factory), and had electrical problems on the drive home. Brought it to the camper dealership who...
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Rest assured that utility type trailers are only slightly less robust than anvils.
Aside from some scraped paint and maybe a bent jack, there is likely no damage, and odds are that if you maintain the trailer you will go through the warranty period issue-free.
A new, presumably empty, enclosed trailer is about the best case scenario for what happened.
We had it happen to us on a new cattle trailer right after we picked it up from the dealer. It wouldn't go on the ball the first few attempts, then it seemed to drop down over the ball, and latch securely. We couldn't lift the tongue off the ball as we could before, so we thought we had it.
Got about a mile down the road, hit a bump, and KA-BAM! The tongue hit the road, bounced up, and hit the tailgate. We hitched it up again, this time it FINALLY went on and latched. The only damage was a ding in the truck's tailgate, a stretched safety chain hook, and a gouge in the road.
Aside from some scraped paint and maybe a bent jack, there is likely no damage, and odds are that if you maintain the trailer you will go through the warranty period issue-free.
A new, presumably empty, enclosed trailer is about the best case scenario for what happened.
We had it happen to us on a new cattle trailer right after we picked it up from the dealer. It wouldn't go on the ball the first few attempts, then it seemed to drop down over the ball, and latch securely. We couldn't lift the tongue off the ball as we could before, so we thought we had it.
Got about a mile down the road, hit a bump, and KA-BAM! The tongue hit the road, bounced up, and hit the tailgate. We hitched it up again, this time it FINALLY went on and latched. The only damage was a ding in the truck's tailgate, a stretched safety chain hook, and a gouge in the road.
