Posted 2010-04-30 7:35 AM (#119525) Subject: How to make a trailer Show Room Fresh?
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I have been looking at HTW daily for months, I told my friend that the other day my wife came in my home office and asked, with a little anger in her voice, if I was looking at trailers again and I had to tell her I was looking at porn to keep myself out of trouble ;)
As you know many of the trailers on HTW are dealer trailers and all have been cleaned up, wheel simulators, shinny tires, all of the cables are chains wound up just right, pictures taken at just the right angle on a beautiful spring day...you have all seen the pictures. When I went to look at the trailer I purchased it was in it's working cloths...not the beautiful HTW pics that I had grown to love. The trailer I purchased is really nice 01 Exiss, it has been well cared for, the body is clean, new tires, wheel bearing just repacked, it had been winterized, again generally a really nice trailer for an 01. The horse compartment has the lived in look as does the LQ. I will get it home next week and the family will get to work on cleaning it up. We will pull the mats and power wash the livestock compartment, have the outside acid washed, give the LQ a good cleaning and get it ready to go.
Having never owned an LQ trailer I wondering what else a dealer might do to prep a used trailer, I want that dealer clean used trailer without a dealer purchase. We can handle the cosmetic part but what things may I be missing as far as holding tanks, water lines, etc? What does a used trailer dealer do before taking the picture and listing it here?
Posted 2010-04-30 9:05 AM (#119534 - in reply to #119525) Subject: RE: How to make a trailer Show Room Fresh?
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Posts: 1871 Location: NY
I now with cars the dealer use a little oil on the tires and steam cleans the outside inside there use armor all maybe this may help ( looking at porn that is funny)
Posted 2010-04-30 9:21 AM (#119537 - in reply to #119525) Subject: RE: How to make a trailer Show Room Fresh?
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This is what I have observed at a trailer dealership that was in the process of cleaning up a non-living quarter aluminum trailer taken in for trade: They pulled the mats, power washed inside, cleaned up the aluminum walls in dressing room, were in the process of fixing some minor things - seal around one of the windows, cleaned the outside, had checked to be sure everything worked (dividers, doors, windows). I don't know what they did under the trailer because this looked all clean underneath already. I'm sure they did something to check the wheels, too.
The last time we went in (ramp installation for our trailer), they were cleaning up a steel horse trailer. This one was in the process of having the inside cleaned up and painted over areas with rust. It had also been cleaned up all over. I didn't take the time to look this one over carefully since we had already purchased our trailer.
The aluminum trailer cleaned up and looked brand new. The steel one was looking good, but just didn't have that fresh look that the aluminum took on. There were some dings on the steel trailer walls from horses (or cows?) and this trailer did not have lining on the walls. The dings were not going to be taken out.
I don't know what products this place used, but it comes down to the dealership was cleaning the trailer up, checking, fixing and lubricating things, and making sure the product looked as new as possible. The used living quarter trailers we looked at - well, it seems you can only make them look so new depending on the use they received. The ones we looked at were very clean, but you could see the normal "aging" (fading of carpet or dulling of linoleum, that kind of thing).
How to make a trailer Show Room Fresh?
