"Any ideas on what I can do to make this dealer take back the trailer?"

Have you tried talking to the dealer? 

I don't know the laws on buying and selling trailers in your state. In some states, a trailer's sale would fall under the motor vehicle codes. With automobiles, a private sale is automatically considered an "as is" sale with no warranty. A dealership sale is automatically considered to have a warranty, unless a disclaimer is made to the contrary. A verbal contract is virtually worthless when it comes to the purchase of any vehicle.

It's tough to accept, but you didn't do your job well with your purchase. The "you should haves" would include a careful inspection of the structure and trying out each one of the appliances and utilities. A shake down cruise would have been desirable and a good opportunity to discover any faults, before a major trip was attempted.

Unless your bill of sale specifically states that certain items are working properly, or that they were recently repaired, you will have little recourse in obtaining a complete satisfaction. The statute you discovered may help with your brakes; no dealer is allowed to knowingly sell a dangerous product. They have to expend due diligence in selling a potentially hazardous product.

There is a portion of the law that includes a " warranty of merchantability". It means that a product has to work as intended. Generally, a horse trailer has to be able to haul horses. I don't know how far you would get stating that your LQ functions didn't perform as a LQ should.

Many problems could be eliminated by a proper inspection of a trailer before any purchase is made. Most owners have never seen their trailer's under carriage or even the bottom of the flooring. For such an expensive product, too many people are acting completely naive with their purchases. They are more concerned with the colours of the interior, than the mechanicals that get them safely down the road.

Best of luck   Gard

Sounds to me that you have no "Rights"  just a lot of "Wrongs"   You bought a used trailer.  (Floors don't rot in a few weeks)  You going on an extended trip does not create a special legal obligation on the dealer.  Verbal agreements are worth exactly the value of the paper they're written on in a conflict such as yours.  You only have a gripe with the selling dealer unless you also managed to transfer a factory warranty to yourself.

Did all of the trailer's equipment operate correctly before you left home?  Seems like many of the posts like yours on this forum are caused by operator error.  (Do a search on unrolling awnings in this forum)

 PS:  Don't ask for legal advice on the Internet.  Like verbal contracts, the advice is only worth the electrons it's made of.

I think you are out of your mind........... you buy a trailer and the very next day you go on a cross the country trip? Without checking things out at home? What are you smoking?.............

JEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!

I say the dealer owes you NOTHING..... There is a certain amount of responsibility that lies with you to verify that the trailer is up to preforming to your expectations. Your expectations and the dealers idea of your expectations can be, and were, very different.

That would have been the first dang thing that I'd looked at when buying a trailer is the floor.Any time we've bought a used trailer,I'd pulled the mats and looked at the floor.Next thing,when hooked up,I would have noticed,was that there were NO BRAKES.

Sorry to make you feel bad,but heck fire,live and learn.You'll be lucky to unload that for anything like you paid for it unless you got it priced accordingly to the condition which I have a feeling you didn't.

I've not seen your trailer, So I really know nothing about your situation. In other words, I'm speaking in general terms and not accusing you of anything.

I build new homes. I occassionally have home owners call and complain about items. 99% of the time it's operator error. For example a fellow calls me up 2 months after he moved in and tells me his disposal is broken. We make a special trip out and find a Quarter inside the disposal, it's bent up and binding the blade up so the disposal doesn't work. We remove the quarter and charge him $100 service call ( it's a 30 mile drive out, 60 miles round trip). He's upset that we charged him a fee for  a warranty call which he thinks I should perform for free under my 1 year builders warranty.

Another woman calls and complains that her central vacuum doesn't work.  We make the trip out and run a snake through her vacuum pipes and pull out a womans thong. Now I gurantee that none of my workers left those around the job site. And we never turn on the built in central vacs to clean up construction debris. So it was something she vacuum'd up. Again I charged her for a service call and she complained to high heaven that I'm a terrible builder. Who was really at fault here.

You state your awning unrolled and got shredded. I suspect you didn't secure it properly.

You say the A/C did not blow cold in Oklahoma. Did it work in other states?  Was the temperatures in OK  really hot. Maybe just above the capacity of the system. I'm sure there are hot days when a standard A/C will not cool a horse trailer. If it was a new A/C, then maybe it did sustain an infant mortality failure, and the dealer or product manufacure will probably warranty that.  In my part of the country, I rarely ever use my A/C I don't know if it works or not. I just assume that since it worked when I bought it and I've never used it, that it still works.

I think a dealer owes you, and you should expect  a walk through when you buy a LQ trailer. He should show you how things operate. Just like a Ford Dealer shows you how to operate your new pickup truck. I really don't think you have any rights at this time except what is left of the manufactures warranty.  If your trailer has a 2 year frame and 5 year shell warranty and you are still within that period, Call the dealer/maufacture and have them service the unit. But give them a chance to fix anything that's not working. If it's used and out of warranty, You are out of luck.

It will be really hard to go back to a North Carolina dealer and say I hauled the trailer 3000 miles across the country and back 3000 miles across Canada and the brakes don't work now. The proof will be on you as to WHEN they stopped working.  Were they not working when you bought the trailer or did they stop working coming down off a 8% grade in the Rockies?

Does youyr furnace or A/C not work because a circuit breaker has pop'd or a pilot light has blown out? Those could be simple fixes, but if you don't know how to fix them, they will leave you sweating in the heat or cold at night.

Good luck, But be realistic of what you expect from the dealer and manufacture.

Lea Anne ...  No sexism here ... Doesn't matter what sex a rube is.  The sharks are gonna eat him/her.  It's just a perception that women are not informed buyers of things mechanical.  In other words, an easy meal.  An informed woman can use that perception to her advantage. 

The uninformed man or woman... they get eaten.

Ignorance is costly.

On the diving forum...they had an expression for a post like this...

TROLL...

The trailer went from NC to TX...it therefore had to be inspected to be plated...sooooo

HOW DID IT PASS ITS INSPECTION WITHOUT BRAKES???

And he hooked up without turning on the A/C...etc...PLEASE...

If this isn't a TROLL...Let me apologize in advance...but then say you appear to have all of the qualifications to be a future DARWIN AWARD WINNER...

Or you may be related to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Btfsplk

Depends on what they came here for. 

Good night everyone.

Gard ... I'm generally one of the first in line to offer welcome and advice. 

I am put off by the OP's title request.  A cry for "My Rights" means to me a coming rant of how "someone did poor me wrong".   The OP's post unfortunately exceeded my lowest expectation.  Further, the OP was all about legal recourse, not personal responsibility and working relationships.  That attitude is a great peril to our country's future.  It has already modified behaviors to society's detriment.  (remember the "hauling other people's horse" thread on this forum?)

Wow!  First we were assaulted by a naive trailer owner who was negligent in her purchasing inspection. When she asked if there were any legal redress, we called her names. Then we accused her of threatening the very fabric of our country's future and security. What's next? A conspiracy theory about nitrogen filled spare tires?

I thought this forum was about sharing information and good will; that the basic premise of innocent until proven guilty still reigned, and that first impressions are often faulty. I'm gullible and have been proven wrong in my impressions of various posters, but I have never witnessed this type of behavior in this forum. Is this the direction we are going? Do we still hang witches?

Gard

Why is it our first recourse to try to sue someone?

Why do we think that a dealer should be "more" responsible that a buyer.

If "YOU" make a bad decision.......then deal with it. It was "YOU" that made it.

Cooper, it sounds like you are very unhappy with your purchase.  We don't blame you.  Buyer's remorse is real, and a few product issues can really make you regret a decision to "just get on the road".  Especially, half way through your trip and new trailer - fuel prices spike even more.

What we're saying is that instead of seeking legal (trust me, most trailers DO come with brakes on them) reasons for taking the trailer back, we're suggesting a civilized dialogue with the dealer on the actual problems you are having - and we are very wary of first time posters who appear to have a personal agenda to reverse a purchase by using our boards as a  bully pulpit.

Is Cooper08 going to response to any of this?

When my husband & I purchased our LQ trailer from Dixie H&M, they did an entire walk through of the LQ & horse areas showing us how to work everything & that everything worked properly. We also verified all the electricals worked between the truck and trailer before we pulled off the lot.

Something sounds a bit fishy to me. There are too many important details left out for us to really figure what's going on here.