Who makes the best trailer ? - my answer
Nobody. What i have learned so far is - all trailers are junk, just of varying degrees. One could easily assume from that comment i have a horror story to tell, i don’t, i love my trailer. I’m just...
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The American consumer wants the best but is hesitant to pay for it. While "you get what you pay for" might be an over used generalization, there is some truth to it.
We really don't want to pay for quality, we simply expect it. Trailers are getting larger and larger with all sorts of goodies in them. We demand that the price stay low and we are complaining about "junk" on the road. The light weight trailer is a prime example of this. Build it big but fix it so you can pull it with a mini van. What do you expect? Not all of these trailers are bad but when you consider what has to be done to reduce weight is shouldn't be a surprise.
When I say "pay" for it I don't just mean in a monetary way. Many owners won't spend their time when it comes to regular maintenance and don't want to get an appropriate tow vehicle for the size trailer they want. As someone has already pointed out, it is amazing that we can have such a nice unit after we tow it down a bumpy road a 65mph. All trailers will need to be watched and things have to be addressed when they pop up. Trashing your unit when something loosens up by calling it a piece of junk confuses me. Of course with a poor quality trailer you might be "fixing" stuff more regularly but EVERYONE will fix something now and then.
We don't want to pay taxes and yet will complain when the roads we travel on are in poor condition. Then, some will trash our friends up north because they believe in using taxes for the betterment of those who worked for many years to make Canada a better place. That post was a very sad commentary on our attitudes.
We really don't want to pay for quality, we simply expect it. Trailers are getting larger and larger with all sorts of goodies in them. We demand that the price stay low and we are complaining about "junk" on the road. The light weight trailer is a prime example of this. Build it big but fix it so you can pull it with a mini van. What do you expect? Not all of these trailers are bad but when you consider what has to be done to reduce weight is shouldn't be a surprise.
When I say "pay" for it I don't just mean in a monetary way. Many owners won't spend their time when it comes to regular maintenance and don't want to get an appropriate tow vehicle for the size trailer they want. As someone has already pointed out, it is amazing that we can have such a nice unit after we tow it down a bumpy road a 65mph. All trailers will need to be watched and things have to be addressed when they pop up. Trashing your unit when something loosens up by calling it a piece of junk confuses me. Of course with a poor quality trailer you might be "fixing" stuff more regularly but EVERYONE will fix something now and then.
We don't want to pay taxes and yet will complain when the roads we travel on are in poor condition. Then, some will trash our friends up north because they believe in using taxes for the betterment of those who worked for many years to make Canada a better place. That post was a very sad commentary on our attitudes.
