Height

Ashbourne wrote:

rhagfo wrote:

jaycocamprs wrote:

Ashbourne wrote:
OK. At the risk of being called a stupid limey, can anyone answer this.
I have owned an American built fiver for over 3 years, covered about 16000 miles, driven on and off ferry ramps, in and out more gas stations that I care to know about, and accessed camp grounds galore. In all this time I have never even come close to grounding the trailer. So why is it built so high off the ground. What is the significant difference between the USA and Europe that makes this necessary
Many thanks

It is so you can have a flat floor in a slideout over the tires. Trailers with a low floor have wheel wells, that wont work with a flat floor slideout above the tires

Ta-Da!

As I noted in the 4th reply, ever notice that newer 5er have FLAT floors over the tires!!!

That is why the floor is high, that answers the OP's question!

To as why they are so tall,head room in the upper level. Our 1st had 5'- 8" in the upper level, it was a real pain in the back, to make the bed.
Current 5er has 6'-1" in the bed room, much nice, just a bit taller. There are units that have about 6'-6" in the overhead. Each of extra inch of headroom adds to the overall height of the 5er.

OK so now I feel really dumb. Of course that's the reason. My 5er runs on 15" wheels and torsion bar suspension, so its probably as low as possible with opposing slides. Many thanks for all your posts, I'll now crawl back into my cupboard
Mark

No need, in the UK most don't need a huge truck to tow a caravan! My Son in law tows a two horse trailer with a 1.6L engine car (Ireland).
The big 5ers require BIG tires.

Part of the resopnce was based on many (Myself included at times) not comprehending the question correctly.