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Location: Iowa | So, are black trailers any hotter inside, esp if shiney black aluminum exterior and lined walls and ceiling? Thanks. |
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Location: Texas | I have a Barrett with Black Skin and it is no hotter on the inside as an all aluminum one or one with white skin. |
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Location: Kinston, NC | YES, quite a bit hotter |
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Location: western PA | Black will be the hottest of any colour |
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Location: rapid city sd | had an 04 sundowner 6 horse that we pulled for 2 years and couldn't tell any difference, except it showed the dirt worse. |
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| Originally written by whitewood on 2011-03-23 3:53 PM
had an 04 sundowner 6 horse that we pulled for 2 years and couldn't tell any difference, except it showed the dirt worse. A friend has a black trailer and I agree with whitewood, never really noticed a difference in temp but always notice a difference in cleanliness...the black trailer always looks dirty. |
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Location: Harrisburg, OR | I agree with Whitewood as well. I bought a black trailer just to see and there is not a noticeable heat difference in either the interior of the horse compartment or the exterior skin. Definitely harder to keep clean. |
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Location: Kinston, NC | ask yourself: do you think black cars are hotter than white cars? There is your answer. Mill finish shiny metal reaches a temp of 190 degrees in the summer sun, black is similar to that. |
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Location: western PA | Look at any boat yard or marina. How many black boats do you see as compared to the white? |
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Location: Virginia | "I bought a black trailer just to see..........." Wow - that's an expensive way to find out!!!! I wish I had that kind of money!  IMHO it would be easiest to go to a dealer on a sunny day, find 2 similar trailers - one white/one black - and stick a thermometer in them. |
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Location: Harrisburg, OR | Pinkmouse: We are a dealer which is why we had to bite the bullet and see. Obviously heat wasn't our only reason for purchasing a black trailer, we also wanted to see what the market was for them. I don't know anything about boats, all I know is from firsthand observation on an 80+ degree day that I couldn't tell the difference. Maybe I should have used a thermoter :) |
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Location: Harrisburg, OR | I forgot to add that it did surprise me because intuitively I thought it'd be much hotter. Maybe you'd be able to tell a big difference if it was closer to 100. |
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Location: rapid city sd | had a 6' short wall that was lined and insulated from the factory and an a/c on top. Only overnighted in it a half a dozen times, but the a/c would freeze you out on a 100 degree day. We used it hard, probably put 70,000 miles on it and don't believe it was 1 degree warmer than the white skins we have or had. Had horses tied to it a lot, and the black also showed the horse damage much worse than white. Bottem half was extruted so that saved some. |
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Location: Vermont | http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2... |
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Location: Seattle "pshaw, its not raining hardly at all!" WA | while the interior of the black trailer may or may not be appreciably hotter than the interior of a white trailer (especially if insulated), the surface temp of a black surface will be way hotter than the surface temp of a black surface. if you plan on TOUCHING the outside of your trailer (or if your horse bumps it with his tender nose), you may want to consider that as a factor. of course if you live up here in the PacNW, having a passive solar heating surface may not be a bad thing ;) |
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Location: rapid city sd | not buying that theory, just checked it out on my wifes white car and my black pickup. The only ones I saw that got hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!! stainless steel. |
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Location: western PA | http://www.tom-morrow-land.com/tests/cartemp/index.htm |
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Location: Iowa | Thanks for the input. My own thought would be that as long as it is shiny and reflective, it wouldn't have a lot of impact, but I don't own one. Came across one in a search and one person thought it would be hot inside. |
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Location: Sumas Washington | I dont know about horse trailers, BUT I do some drag racing, and sitting in a black car is MUCH hotter MUCH HOTTER than sitting in a white or other less dark car. Your trailer insulation should help with this quite a bit. If I was hauling in a black trailer the roof would be white.
Edited by gonzo1066 2011-03-29 5:01 PM
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