Trailer parts that are rip offs.
During a recent road trip with my Crossroads, Sunset Trail Travel trailer, I blew a tire and it wiped out the plastic Skirt on one side. I called my dealer and they said they could order me a replace...
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Ron3rd wrote:Spade Cooley wrote:
Many thanks for all the good suggestions. The beauty of it was the parts just arrived and were correct so it wasn't all bad. I just installed the plastic skirt and it fit fine. I just hate a rip off. Now I'm ready to hit the road once again.
The bad taste in my mouth did discourage me from buying another RV. I thought I was ready for a new travel trailer but dealing with dealers is not fun. I'll get buy with my old one.
Refer back to my post; you were not "necessarily" ripped off. Large items like fenders go by "dimensional weight" as I described. Few people understand dimensional weight and wonder why a 5 lb item cost $60 to ship. The reason is "dimensionally" UPS charges $60 for that big box you just received!
Now, I'm not saying the box did not cost the shipper $45 in actually UPS shipping and they charged you $60, but that is a discussion for another day........
Absolutely correct!
In other words once you EXCEED a certain SIZE (dimensions) it is considered OVERSIZED and the shipping costs shoots way up.
Does not matter if it is in a cardboard box, a tube or complete wooden crate once it exceeds the standard shipping size you get surcharged.
A wheel well skirt WILL easily exceed standard shipping rates size because it is LONG.
UPS at one time had a chain that you wrapped around your item and as long as the chain ends touched it would ship for standard rates..
If ANY of the dimensions did not allow the chain ends touch it was consider oversized..
