Thread: Pinto Trailers

I wont specify any brand favorites but will say "For fucks sake do your research and buy a NZ manufactured not just nz assembled trailer"

This wont guarantee you the best trailer but will get you a trailer that at the very least shouldn't bugger off from the back of your vehicle with a load on and drift into a oncoming school bus or mum pushing a pram down the foot path....at least for the first six months.....

Have a box trailer(nz made) in the yard at the mo the drawbar just cracked and broke off of, just built too light.

The trouble with trailers and towbars is there is no regulation for wof vehicles, now dont get me wrong I am all for joe blogs with a few clues and skills building his own trailer without going threw welding cert and design cert for wof vehicles, but what that also means is company's both here and overseas try and out "cheap" each other to stay in business and corners are cut relentlessly and sometimes un safely.
Who checks it....the guy at vtnz? he has no bloody idea if its a good weld or not or if that drawbar is thick enough or if the bloody thing has been designed to carry the load.
As soon as you go into COF the exact opposite applies, everything has to be designed and certed to extreme/bloody ridiculous overbuild to cover the certifiers arse

Honestly the shit I have seen come in from China straight of the wharf to my work to be made towable just beggars belief.

I hear what you are saying.
But there is a huge price differential for example in a 8 x 5 trailer with stock crate you can be looking at $3.5k versus $5K plus.
I have a builder mate who has a "cheap" trailer I think a "Bunnings" one.
It is used daily carrying timber up 50 k a day 4 wheelers and motorbikes at weekends.
A bloody sight more work that a Joe Bloggs like myself that may use once a month.
For a cheap trailer it doesn't appear to be falling to bits.
I am all for buying NZ new but in the end I will have to look at all options.