poor frame design on travel trailer
On our Crossroads Z1 252BH (year 2016), the a-frame/coupler is mounted underneath the main frame rails of the trailer, rather than butted up to the main frame rails...this configuration results in the...
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trailernovice wrote:
The picture Old Biscuit posted is exactly the design of our TT, and illustrates the issue...imagine the A-frame in that picture hadn't failed & creased, and instead was straight...visualize how low the w/d bars, safety chains, and umbilical cable would be to the ground...And, the mud flaps on the truck in the image leads me to believe it's probably a heavy-duty series (maybe a dually) that would sit higher and have a heavier suspension than our rig...I'm over 500 at the hitch, dry with no load in bed, on a 1500-series truck...w/d bars have six inches or less of clearance from the roadday
the least little bump, dip or incline and everything at the hitch point bottoms out and scrapes
Probably won't trade truck or trailer just now...I'm pointing this out for the benefit of others...something to look at when considering a particular TT
They evidently changed something along the way.
The top picture is a 2018, the bottom a 2016. Does you no good however as that falls under the we can change anything we want at anytime fine print they plaster everywhere. It probably boils down to what frames do they have sitting around out in the yard on the day they run the floorplan.
