Grand Design now using Dexter axles on Imagine. And...
And a new slide design. I learned this on the GD facebook group. This is a big consideration if you're looking at an Imagine as we are.
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Huntindog wrote:
I believe that Lippert bought Dexter a while ago.
Lippert did not buy Dexter Axle. Lippert bought Dexters frame division @ 2011/12.
Grand Design had repeated problems with Lipperts axles, and is the reason they switched to Dexter. A friend's 2017 Grand Design 5er was taken back to the factory twice. The first time Grand Design changed everything but the tubes/spindles on the Lippert axles, and they were blowing grease again when they delivered it back to his home in Ohio, a less than 300 mile trip. Grand Design hauled it right back to Indiana, and when they delivered it back it had Dexter axles. The RV forums, especially the Grand Design boards and other manufacturer specific boards, are full of posts about the Lippert axle issues, and have been for awhile now.
Lippert chose to take the deny, deny, deny, route a year or so ago officially, which is the #1 play in their playbook from what I have experienced dealing with them.
Lippert says "what problem"? We have no stinking problems.
When you use Lippert's Schwintek garbage for slides such as in the pictures below, you're doing nothing but asking for trouble. How much do you think a slide such as this weighs?
