Question re axle replacement

Huntindog wrote:

gregmisc wrote:
I had uneven tire wear on my original tires and contacted the dealer. The dealer said he doesn’t align axles and sent me to a truck shop. The truck shop said they are not adjustable and could not help me. I finally found a shop that said they could do the alignment but they found both Lippert axles were bent and needed to be replaced. The owner said the Lipperts were not made as well as Dexters so he ordered larger capacity Dexter axles for replacement. I hope this solves my problem.

Having had both brands, IMO, The Lipperts are made better. The difference is that Lippert powder coats them, and Dexter paints them. Other than that they are the same.

They will both build them to a customers spec.
That goes for tube thickness, Hub face spec, ratings, brake sizes etc. Actually just about all of the individual parts are interchangeable.

So you canbuy a weak or strong axle from either company.

I bet your shop was a Dexter dealer.

At any rate, going stronger was a good thing. But it was too bad he felt the need to throw Lippert under the bus. He gets an "A" for the stronger axle recommendation, and an "F" for truthfullness about his competition.

ROFLMAO. Lippert, the fine folks who bring you pleather furniture that peels and flakes within two years, shower bases that crack if the user weighs more than 90 lbs, leveling systems that blow seals and hose fittings often along with losing calibration almost every time they're used, electronic control systems that lock up and require constant rebooting, frames that deflect or crack, windows that open themselves while traveling, under powered motors for slideouts which also go out of sync and cause slides to jam, etc etc etc.

You might want to discuss who makes the better axle with some of the hundreds if not thousands of Grand Design owners who had Lippert axles prior to 2018 or whenever it was that Grand Design threw in the Lippert axle towel and switched to Dester.