Any Hi Lo owners on here?

Robsouth,

That is a fair price, but I want to warn you about the possibility of rotten walls, which is what we had and have rebuilt one.

You see the second picture on the left? if you enlarge it, look at the seam in the middle of the wall on the left. I think? it looks bumpy. Ours looked like that and after poking my finger through a bump, then peeling it back ---a couple hrs later we had a wall with black-looking mold inside.

The weak link on these trailers (well, on all of 'em I guess!) is water leakage through the seam in the roof. Whoever we sell ours to, I have an idea of putting more siding under the already existing seam up there to really make a barrier so water does not get down inside.

If you feel any soft spots on the walls, or see any stains, you can probably rest assured there's mold in them walls.

Also the ad says you can tow it up or down. We don't even like to park ours without having some metal supports holding up the entire trailer. The only thing holding it up is some cables. If you have rotten walls, the place where the cables attach can come loose and this could pose a hazard. I would not drive with it up. Also, it's more aerodynamic with it down too....

Until dh welded up some really cool adjustable supports for ours, he just cut some two by fours and painted them to hold ours up just for safety's sake.

Also, do you know anyone with asthma? We had a friend with asthma and she was in there for an hour and had an attack due to the mold. LOL, you could send someone with asthma in as a "canary" to test for mold.

Good luck,

Mary Kay

I think they used a cable pulley system to make it go up an down. Or, at least the early ones did. Make sure all of that system is in good shape.

Had many great trips in my '99 TowLite 18TD (the low end Hi-Lo). Good luck!

Cool! Great stories. Yes mine is a 1987. I only have one kid left at home, so I sold my tent trailer that slept 7. It's perfect for the two of us, or if she brings a friend along.
I'm just a little nervous about towing the bigger trailer with a bigger vehicle. I just bought a truck on Friday. My first camping trip with the Hi Lo and new truck is next weekend.

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My folks had two back in the late 70's early 80's. Towed them with an early 6.2 Chevy all over North America.

Funny story. My mom would get the inside ready while dad would do the outside stuff. She left a ketchup bottle on top of the fridge once and when she lowered the top it poked a hole in the ceiling. She kept quiet and when they stopped bought one of those stick on air fresheners. When she put the top up while dad was getting the water and power hooked up she stuck the air freshener over the hole. We don't think he ever knew.

We have a 2004 17 ft. Hi Lo that we've owned since 2007. We love it and have been all over FL, back and forth to San Francisco, up to RI, the GA mountains, etc. It tows like a dream and is relly well made. Have had no issues with it and store it in the garage. Plenty of room for the 2 of us and our 2 camping corgis. Al C.

Must have been used (?) as the company went bankrupt a while back. Or has it come back from the dead?

Trailmanor makes folding trailers and went bankrupt too but was brought back by its biggest dealer. Don't make the up-right Elkmont anymore though.

We just got rid of our HILO we had it for 11 yrs. We liked it a lot. I would have bought another one if they were still making them.

I will definitely post some pics. I'm excited!! But one day....I'm getting a vintage trailer that I can restore. (Not that I know how to do that yet, though)