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Roof vent covers. Wish I had them on mine. And, if you like, a better fan in the roof vents. People on here seem to love the fantastic vent ceiling fan.

Dexter axles is owned by Libert.
Frank.

Slownsy wrote:
Dexter axles is owned by Libert.
Frank.

Not true if you are suggesting Dexter is owned by Lippert. Dexter axle is privately held (per Bloomberg website). I did find an article dated Oct. 2012 in the Elkhart Truth that would not display, but the headline said Dexter was being acquired by a private equity firm. There was a Dexter division (chassis?) that was acquired by Lippert several years ago.

Unless it's changed hands again since, Dexter was acquired in 2012 by Houston private equity firm The Sterling Group.

But given the diversity of their holdings, I wouldn't be surprised if they have an interest in Lippert, too!

Francesca Knowles wrote:
Unless it's changed hands again since, Dexter was acquired in 2012 by Houston private equity firm The Sterling Group.

But given the diversity of their holdings, I wouldn't be surprised if they have an interest in Lippert, too!

There is usually a lot confusion around these things, but I suspect the tie in that folks may be looking for is that Dexter sold their chassis division several year ago, which was subsequently bought by Drew Industries, which is the parent company of LCi ( Lippert ).

All of which probably has very little to do with whether a Dexter axle is better than a Lippert. As often as not, I suspect the axle "problems" we see are more down to the trailer manufacturer putting too small of an axle under the load.
For what it's worth, I have Dexters on three of my trailers, and Lippert on the fourth trailer, and they all work fine.